Polina Popova is a contemporary painter born in 1981 and based in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Her primary practice is process-oriented painting, which explores questions of process in painting. She creates large-scale paintings on canvas, using a unique technique with liquid acrylic.

Popova was born in Ekaterinburg, Russia. She received a Painting BA from the Ekaterinburg College of Art in 2000 and a Social Philosophy BA in Ural State University. In 2015 she studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow. She received a stipend grant from the Open Culture Foundation (OCF), London, UK. In 2015 she participated in the graduation exhibition Event Horizons, parallel program of the 6th Moscow Biennale, Vadim Sidur Museum, Moscow, Russia.

She has exhibited in Russia and represented in private collections.

The artist lives and works in Ekaterinburg.