Alyona Kirtsova was born on January 24, 1954, in the settlement of Barentsburg on the archipelago of Spitsbergen into the family of an international journalist and diplomat.

[5] In 2009, she was awarded a first-degree diploma for the best art project at the 8th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale “Dal”.

[13] Michael Govan, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Abstract luminescent effect of Kirtsova's oil paintings, sculptures of prismatically arranged chards of old glass, and meticulously rendered drawings is important not only for the pure visual pleasure it inspires, bui also, in metaphorical terms, for the fleeting sense of life it allows.

Like the instantaneous flash of a photograph which distrupts all time before and after it by the grip it holds on the moment, grip it holds on the moment, Kirtsova's art imparts to the viewer in its experience the same transitory coherence of cognition, of thinking, that unexpectedly and momentarily transforms our perception of simple paint into ART, or the organic continuity of experience into LIFE".

[14] Hans-Peter Riese, journalist, art historian and curator: "Not a single one of her paintings shows even a hint of trying for effect.