The artist studied monumental painting at the Academy of design and arts in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She attended drawing, painting and composition courses of Vitaly Ivanovich Lenchin. In 2015 she received a scholarship from the Polish Minister of culture "Gaude Polonia", the artist was a resident at the University of arts in Poznan, Poland. Maria Drozdova works in such areas as painting, drawing, collage, photography, computer graphics, performance, installation.