Lera Nibiru graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television with a degree in Animation (2003). Lives and works in Moscow. The practice of Lera Nibiru initially developed in the field of video, photography and animation. Also Lera was member of famous avant-garde music bands Babsley and ZGA . Since 2009 graphic art and mixed media objects have become her favorite media. Inheriting the tradition of Moscow conceptual school Nibiru creates total installations which include puppets and monumental frescos, as well as delicate works on paper or narrative albums of small format. Following the concept of "psychodelic realism" suggested by Pavel Pepperstein, works of Lera Nibiru can remind childish dreams but at the same time reproduce images from deep sensual phantasms. Lera had many exhibitions in galleries and museums in Russia and abroad. Also she makes films and works as videographer in theater projects.
Twice she was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize. In 2017 Nibiru’s art project “Kromkhel's Journey to the Seventh Heaven” became a base for an opera, written by composer Nick Sudnik, Lera Nibiru is author of the libretto. In 2018 she made animation film on this opera.
Lera Nibiru's book “Journey to the Otherworld of Dreams” is published in 2017 by ArtLeda. Nibiru's art-works are in collections: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Fondation Daniel & Florence Guerlain (Paris), Freud's Dream Museum (Saint Petersburg), V. Smirnov & K. Sorokin contemporary art foundation (Moscow).
In 2021 Nibiru won the Grand Prix of the Media Artists Competition "Digital Opera 2.0" in St.Petersburg, Russia.
In 2022 Lera opened personal exhibition - media installation "Astronaut" in State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.