Valeriya Troubina was born in 1966. She studied at the Art School and Arts College of Lugansk. In 1990 graduated from Kyiv State Art Institute and became a member of Ukrainian Union of Artists. Lives and works in Berkeley, California, USA. Works of the artist are held in the State Tretyakovska gallery (Moscow), National museum of Russian art (Moscow), National fine arts museum (Kyiv), as well as in the private collections of Sweden, USA, Great Britain, Russia, Ukraine.

Valeria Troubina seeks and finds her "secret gardens" everywhereю These are beautiful places hidden from others, which are full of silence. Her paintings keep this silence. These are her memories of those spaces that have not yet been occupied by destruction of an irresistible human desire to control the natural environment.