Ksenia Buridanova enrolled at art school in Rostov-on-Don in 2001. She spent years copying works by classical masters from nature, training her hand and eye in the techniques of Vermeer, Bosch, and the Dutch Golden Age. In 2014, she graduated with honors from the Art College of M.B. Grekov, then continued her education at the Academy of Fine Arts of Ilya Glazunov in Moscow. Among her teachers were Alexander Ryzhkin, Valentin Mamontov, and Ilya Glazunov himself.

Her practice bridges two seemingly incompatible worlds: internet meme culture and Old Master painting technique. She transforms digital imagery born in online environments into classical oil paintings, removing memes from their native speed and context to elevate them into objects of sustained attention. Pepe the Frog appears rendered with the same technical gravity as Renaissance portraiture. Anthropomorphic frogs inhabit her dreamscapes with unsettling dignity. Her work examines how familiar internet imagery changes when translated into the slow, deliberate medium of layered oil glazing.

The main theme in her work is organic determinism, the unity between humans and nature, but her recent practice expanded to investigate how contemporary iconography functions when removed from screens and immortalized in classical technique. She works exclusively in oil paint, building transparent layers in the classical tradition. To date, she has painted over two hundred works for collectors across 15 countries. Her work has been featured at galleries including Beinart Gallery and sold through Saatchi Art.

In recent years, she began experimenting with AI, training neural networks on her own paintings to generate new images. She calls this collection Mimicry, describing it as a way to directly interact with the visual information accumulated by humanity. Some AI-generated images become inspiration for new paintings. Her 2023 work Inside began as pieces made with Stable Diffusion, then evolved into traditional oil paintings. In January 2026, she opened her solo exhibition Memetica Mysterica at the Bitcoin Museum & Art Gallery in Nashville, examining how images born in online environments transform once rendered in oil on canvas, balancing technical mastery with cultural inquiry into internet iconography.

Her strengths: complete technical mastery of Old Master painting methods, unique vision merging internet meme culture with classical technique, creation of a distinctive symbolic language through recurring motifs like anthropomorphic frogs, willingness to explore AI as extension of traditional practice, ability to transform ephemeral digital culture into permanent artistic objects.

Career highlights: over 200 paintings sold to collectors in 15 countries, work featured at Beinart Gallery and sold through Saatchi Art, Mimicry collection exploring AI-human collaboration, Memetica Mysterica solo exhibition at Bitcoin Museum & Art Gallery in Nashville (2026), development of recognizable style bridging digital and classical worlds.