Alina Melnikova lives and works in Vilnius and Barcelona. She has exhibited her works widely in Europe -Austria, Spain, Germany, Poland and Finland- since graduating from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2008. n 2009, she won the Award for Young Painters in Lithuania; in 2013, she was invited to the international artist residency “La Cité Internationale des Arts” in Paris. In the same year, she was granted Artistic status by the Lithuanian Cultural Ministry. Her work has been exhibited in art institutions of international importance like the KUMU Contemporary Art Center in Tallinn (Estonia) and the CAC of Vilnius (Lithuania).

Through diferent mediums such as drawing, installation, performance and -especially- oil painting, Alina explores visual aspects of seduction through notions of sensuality, sexuality and erotism.
Alina’s work resides in signifcant contemporary art collections such as Dietrich Mateschitz (Red Bull Collection), Lewben Art Foundation and MO museum in Vilnius.