Olia Lialina (Russian: Оля Лялина, May 4, 1971, in Moscow) is an Internet artist and theorist, an experimental film and video critic and curator.

Lialina graduated in 1993 after studying film criticism and journalism at Moscow State University, followed by art residencies at C3 (Budapest, 1997)[1] and Villa Waldberta (Munich, 1998).

[2] In 1994 she was one of the founders, and later director, of Cine Fantom,[3] an experimental cinema club in Moscow that she co-founded together with Gleb Aleinikov, Andrej Silvestrov, Boris Ukhananov, Inna Kolosova and others.

Lialina taught at New Media Lab (Moscow, 1994), Joint Art Studios (Moscow, 1995), University of Westminster (London, 1997), MUU (Helsinki, 1997), Kunst Academiet (Trondheim, 1998); Fachhochschule (Augsburg, 1998), University of Graz (1998) and Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Munich, 1998–99).

[25] Her essays, projects and publications include: My Boyfriend Came Back From the War was analyzed in "Women Innovate: Contributions to Electronic Literature (1990-2010).