Daria V. Shkeleva, born and raised in St. Petersburg.

Graduated from art school under the direction of Valentin Sergeevich Chervyakovsky, associate Professor of St. Petersburg State A. L. Stieglitz Art-industrial Academy. 

Graduated St. Petersburg State University at 2004. Then for many years worked in the studio of Tamara Feodorovna Cavolina, member of the Union of artists of Russia, Professor of  the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts.
Successfully completed summer school at  the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, under the leadership of Professor Vladimir Mogilevtsev

Currently receives the second degree in the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts,
Is a member of the Union of artists.

Participant of numerous exhibitions, works are in private collections in Russia and abroad, including  the private collection of his Holiness Sitagu Sayadaw.