Melnikova Mariya Nikolayevna was born on October 24, 1987 in Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Between 2004 and 2012, she studied monumental painting at the Republican Art College and the Kamoliddin Bekzod Institute of Art and Design. In 2012, she taught fine arts at the 1st Music and Art School and became the head of this department. In 2016, she founded the art studio "Muses" and participated in various state exhibitions. She organized his personal exhibition at the American Embassy. She is the organizer of the exhibition dedicated to March 8 at the Art Academy and the exhibition at the Holy Dormition Church in Tashkent. She organized the "Ustoz va shogirt" exhibition at the Urol Tansikbayev Museum. Joint exhibition in “Tandem” with Bedritskaya O.I. "Vis-a-vis" Two glances, in the lobby of T. Ilkhom. Since 2014 she has been a member of the youth section at the Academy of Arts of the Republic of Uzbekistan, now in the senior section of easel painting. In 2019, she participated in the international symposium "Botai-Great Desert Art" organized in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. Works are in private collections in Uzbekistan, Austria, USA, Kazakhstan, Russia.