Luba Sterlikova was born in 1956 in Moscow, Russia, USSR. She is a Russian-American artist, author, and art curator. She is best known for her cosmic artworks and poster art research. Luba Sterlikova works in a range of mediums, such as oils, oil pastels, acrylics, video installations, and a variety of subject matter. Luba Sterlikova's art creates a unique model of the University. The compositions of the art, built on spiral structures, consider the reality of a multi-layer fabric. In her creative method, Luba Sterlikova uses universal optics on micro and macro space. The cosmos energy as the plasma state of matter naturally appears in the works of the artist through stable modules that encode the matrix of life. In her artistic system, she addresses issues of the universal understanding of the world under the influence of modern theories of random processes, the development of quantum cosmology, a theory at Stanford University. No images could fully convey what was happening in the Universe but "the computer graphics used by physicists and the artist’s imagination, as in the works of Luba Sterlikova, could illustrate different parts of the process and make more clear the difference between a new picture of the world and what was generally accepted relatively recently". In her work, she has been exploring the relationship between art and science. In 2015, she created a video project called "What’s in Common Between Art and Science?" Among the interviewees were professors of physics and mathematics at the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, the Russian Academy of Sciences, art curators of the American University Museum, the National Air and Space Museum, and the Kreeger Museum. The video-project was presented in the National Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia and the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan, Kazakhstan. Her other subject matters include floral, figurative, abstract compositions, and posters. West-Eleven magazine wrote, "A sensual energy pervades all her compositions, demanding attention and holding the viewer in thrall. Since 2009, she has been collaborating of the National Center for Contemporary Art who is best known as the co-author of the book “Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde“. He was a big influence on the artist's path to cosmic art. Her works are in the art collections of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.; the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan, Kazakhstan; Bakhrushin Museum, Moscow, Russia; the National Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia, Athens, Greece; the State Art Museum, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia; and the Russian State Library, as well as in private collections in the US, UK, Russia, France, Germany, and China. She exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Great Britain, China, France, Italy, India, Egypt, Spain, and Russia, including a collective exhibit Poster: Artist and Time at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia, solo exhibitions Multidimensions at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow, Russia, She is the author of Street the Entertainment Poster. Since 2014, she runs programs on poster art history at various venues. Her poster art projects included docent education at the Kreeger Museum and the American University Museum in Washington, DC, National University of Arts, Nursultan, Kazakhstan, and Embassy of Austria in the US. In 2017, she presented her paper Posters. Sterlikova was a speaker at the International conference Philosophy and Psychology of the Theatrical Poster at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow, Russia in 2015. Among her projects as an art curator are the exhibitions at the Bakhrushin Museum, Moscow, Russia. In 2011, she started a social initiative MGIMO-Art that presented works by the university alumni. In 2017, the project developed into an Art Festival with exhibitions. Since 2018, Sterlikova has been collaborating with the Mentor Foundation founded by Queen Silvia of Sweden with the purpose of "preventing youth substance use and promote health and well-being.

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