Lesya was born in 1977 in Lviv, Ukraine, and she currently lives in Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied at the Lviv Ivana Trusha College of Decorative and Applied Arts and the Lviv Academy of Arts. She is a member of the Union of Visual Artists of Australia and the Ukrainian Foundation of Women Artists (W’ART).
In 2007, she launched her first solo exhibition and has also participated in many group exhibitions throughout her career.