Was born in Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro, Ukraine).

Started with animation and painting. Graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk State University in 1988. Moved to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1989. In 2018 moved to the Netherlands. Graduated from the Dutch Art Institute in 2020 and is currently a guest resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Lives and works in Amsterdam.
She has been engaged in contemporary art since the late 1980s, initially with photography and lens-based art. In the early 1990s, begins to add to her works text, textiles, collages and paint, not limited by pure print.

Since 1990 taking part in numerous exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia and worldwide. In 1994, Vita received a Grant from the Bureau «Circ» in Amsterdam and worked on a project regarding Dutch art’s influence. In 2000 got a grant from la Mairie de Paris and spent three months in the Cité des Arts residence working on the project “Paris. Red” and producing a limited-edition artist book.

Shortlisted for Kandinsky Prize in 2009 and 2017. In 2017 she participated in the parallel program of the Venice Biennale of contemporary art in Palazzo Bembo. She is considered to be one of the forward-thinking feminists in post-soviet art.

Works are in private and museum collections, such Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico; The Forbes Collection, Navigator Foundation, Boston; The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; RuArts Foundation, Moscow; Mőlndal commun collection, Sweden; Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin and others.