Marija was born in 1949. She graduated from Department of Textile of the Trush Decorative and Applied Art College in Lvov, Ukraine. She is a member of the Ukrainian Visual Artists Union. From 2001 to 2002 she worked in the Children’s Folk Art School in Lvov and from the 2002 to 2010 she worked in the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Lvov. She has participated in many exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.