Valeria Deminova was born in Moscow, Russia. She moved to the U.S. to play Division 1 tennis at Fordham University on a full scholarship and holds a BA in Visual Arts from Fordham University, an MS in Media Management from the Fordham Gabelli School of Business, and an MFA in Studio Art from Brooklyn College.

In her architectural paintings, Deminova explores how memory, perception, and misinformation shape identity and inform our understanding of freedom. Her work examines the tension between the rigid structures of the built environment and the resilience of its opposition, reflecting complex sociopolitical dynamics. By blurring past and present, democracy and control, freedom and illusion, she disrupts conventional notions of clarity and emphasizes the ambiguity of truth in an era of misinformation and erasure. Each composition negotiates presence and absence, memory and imagination, challenging dominant perspectives and creating a space where loss, beauty, and personal sociological history converge.

The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.