Ksenia Buridanova is a surrealist artist grounded in classical training, from the Grekov Art College to the Glazunov Academy of Painting. Years spent copying the Old Masters and studying their treatment of light, form and materiality shaped her distinctive approach to oil painting. A childhood hand injury further influenced her brushwork, in which movement originates primarily from the wrist rather than the fingers.

Defining her style as magical realism, Ksenia creates a dialogue between past and present. She combines academic painterly language with contemporary visual symbols, weaving mythological imagery and memetic culture within liminal black spaces. Her work seeks not only to preserve traditional painting, but to extend and transform it from within the visual language of the present.

I like to think of memes as modern marginalia — those drawings in the margins of manuscripts created by bored monk-scribes. They, too, are a product of collective creativity, long considered "marginal" art unworthy of any serious attention. Now, like marginalia in their time, memes are becoming a subject of deep study. I strive to reveal this connection in my work, crystallizing symbolic images of internet culture through my artistic vision.

Born in 1992, Ksenia has exhibited internationally, including in the United States, Belgium, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Her paintings are held in private collections across more than fifteen countries.