Lilyana Stankova was born in 1978 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria. In 2010 she received a PhD in Bulgarian Medieval Art at CSVP, "Prof. Ivan Dujcev", University of Sofia, Bulgaria and in 2004 an      MA in Orthodox Iconography, University of Veliko Tarnovo Sv. Sv. Kiril and Metodi" Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

Some of her last exhibitions are: "Beyond the Frontiers", Gallery "Memory of Future", Paris (2014)

"Ateliers of artistes Open Doors", Saint-Cloud, France (2014); "Figuration critique", Bastille Design Center, Paris (2013) ; Foire d'Art Actuel in Val d'Oise ART.VO, Pontoise, France (2013) ; Salon "La Palette du Val de Marne", Le Perreux- Sur- Marne, France (2013) ; Salon du Printemps "Figuration critique", Le Pouliguen, France (2013) ; XXIX International Festival of Visual Arts "Sarajevo's Winter", Bosna and Herzegovina (2013); "Les Hivernales Paris-Est Montreuil", Montreuil, France (2012) ; International Biennale of abstract art, Normandie, France (2012); Salon of art abordable, Paris, (2012); "The Contrasts", Gallery "Art Present", Paris, (2011); "Venise insolite", Gallery "Murano", Venice, (2010).

Works and lives in Paris, France.

My artistic work is in the field of painting and enters the fluid area of pictorial exploration between abstraction and figuration. I am interested in the theme of personal emotional experience and the prints of time: “Being alive is to be made and woven of souvenirs. Memory is the living proof that we become other, because we live in forgetfulness of our transformations." In my paintings I explore the many dimensions that mingle in the souvenirs. I create a complex and ambiguous space made by a multitude of textures (collages of papers) and transparent layers of mineral pigments