Conceptual performance artist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist protest art movement. Today, hundreds of people identify as a part of the Pussy Riot community. She was sentenced in 2012 to 2 years' imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance. Pussy Riot's Punk-prayer was named by The Guardian among the best art pieces of the 21st century: "feminist, explicitly anti-Putin, protesting the banning of gay pride and the Orthodox church’s support of the president". Exhibited at MoMA PS1, Palais de Tokyo, Saatchi Gallery, Louisiana Museum in Denmark, Dallas Contemporary among other places. Tolokonnikova's Putin’s Ashes art installation at Deitch Gallery in January 2023 propelled her into a new criminal case and put on Russia’s most wanted criminal list.