Svetlana K-Lie graduated in 2000 with a Master of Arts from the Moscow Faculty of Applied Arts. She then further developed her practice at the I.I. Nevinsky Etching Art Studio and Babushkinski Ceramic Studio. In 2007 she moved to the United Kingdom where she graduated very successfully from the Camberwell College of Arts, London with a Master of Arts in Drawing.
Her graduation work was selected for the Xhibit 07 exhibition and praised by Time Out.
Originally trained as a sculptor, she works with a broad range of materials and techniques as her practice expands to photography, printmaking and drawing. Her work has been exhibited in major museums in Moscow and Street.Petersburg as well as in the Saatchi Gallery in London in 2010. In 2009 she collaborated with Michael Nyman on the occasion of the Anglo-Moskva Festival in Moscow and was commissioned a sculpture by the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Artist
Two of her etchings are in collection of the Hermitage Museum of Saint St. Petersburg.
In 2004 she was awarded the title of best woman sculptor of Russia and in 2005 of best young sculptor of Russia. Most recently, in 2010, she won runner up in the Best Sculpture category at the Battle Contemporary Fine Art Fair. She also won in the same year the 3rd prize of the RK Harrison Prizes Foreign Art Photography at the National Open Art Competition 2010. In 2011, one of her steel sculptures was selected for the Open West Competition.
