Valeria Buianova

Valeria Buianova is a Moldova-based artist and photographer working across watercolor, acrylic, oil, and mixed media. Born in Chișinău in 2002, she has been engaged with drawing and visual art since childhood. She studied at two art schools in Chișinău - the Valeriu Poleakov School of Arts and the Alexei Șciusev School of Fine Arts - before completing a Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual and Media Arts at Moldova State University.
Before dedicating herself fully to traditional art, Valeria spent seven years working as a game designer. This experience shaped her understanding of composition, atmosphere, visual rhythm, color, and emotional storytelling. Today, she brings this sensitivity into her painting practice, creating works that balance intuition, structure, and a strong sense of mood.
Her work explores silence, nature, memory, and quiet emotional states. Moving between abstraction and recognizable natural forms, her paintings often suggest landscapes, plants, water, fields, weather, and inner spaces rather than depicting them literally. Color plays a central role in her process: she uses it to transmit mood, depth, and emotional presence.
Valeria’s paintings are created for viewers and collectors who are drawn to atmospheric, em...

Valeriu Poleakov School of Arts, Chișinău, Moldova

Alexei Șciusev School of Fine Arts, Chișinău, Moldova

Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual and Media Arts, Moldova State University, Chișinău, Moldova

EXHIBITIONS

2026 – “Abstraction: Forms, Lines, Colors,” 3rd International Juried Exhibition, Gallerium, presented on Artsy

2026 — “Renaissance of Watercolor,” 1st International Watercolor Exhibition in Moldova, Chișinău, Moldova


SELECTED AWARDS AND COMPETITIONS

2019 — Second Prize, 13th “N. N. Tonitza” International Visual Arts Competition, Iași, Romania.

2017 — Second Prize, “My Vote — My Voice” Art Competition, organized by the Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Moldova, Chișinău, Moldova.

2016 — Third Prize, “Christmas Is Coming, and Peace Descends from Heaven into Our Hearts…,” 5th Visual Arts Competition, Chișinău, Moldova.

2013 — Participant, “Watercolors of the Dniester,” International Dniester Basin Art Competition, Chișinău, Moldova.


PUBLICATION

2018 — Award-winning artwork from the “My Vote — My Voice” competition published in the official 2018 calendar of the Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Moldova.