Parkina graduated from the University of Paris VIII in 2002 and was an intern at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, in 2005, where she worked with American artist Mike Kelley and musician Mayo Thompson.

[6] In 2010 she participated in the show Modernikon: Contemporary Art from Russia, hosted by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and curated by Francesco Bonami and Irene Calderoni.

[7] In 2011 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ran her solo show Fallow Land, curated by John Zarobell, as part of a programme to display promising young artists.

Curator and critic Valentin Dyakonov interprets her practice as a reaction to the post-ideological Russian environment of 1990s and 2000s and compares her works to collages by German post-war artist Kurt Schwitters.

[14] Critic Dominic Eichler compared her practice to Frances Stark’s drawings and drew parallels between Parkina's selection of zines from recent years with the aesthetics of Tracey Emin, Jonathan Meese, Nicole Eisenman, Raymond Pettibon and Elke Silvia Krystufek.

[1] According to art historian Yana Yukhalova, these works criticized the media environment of being overloaded with imagery, which was exposed by Parkina in her study of the nature of human vision and its fragmentary character in particular.