Sviatlana Kurashova was born in 1956 in Osipovichy (Minsk district, Belarus.
Studied at Arts studio of Valentin Pokatashkin.
Then - Vitebsk Pedagogical Institute, the Art department. Her teachers were Valentina Liahovich, Felix Gumen, Leonid Antimonov.
1990 member of Union of Artists.
She works at water-color technique mostly in genres of still life, landscape and easel composition. Svetlana Kurashova participates the regional, republic and international exhibitions as well as art camps. Shes a member of the Charity Creative Association AE&M (Art, Ecology and Me).
- 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002 Germany (Noimunster, Rotenburg)
- 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003 Estonia (Johvi, Tallinn, Narva)
- 2003 Latvia (Liepaja)
- 1997, 1999, 2004 Finland (Outokumpu)
- 2005 the Ukraine;
- Yearly Belarus.
During a few years she was a head of Art Gallery named after G. Vaschenco in Gomel.
Her works of art are at Svetlogorsk Art gallery named after Prianishnicov, Gomel regional museum, Mogilev Regional Art Museum, Gomel Art Gallery named after G. Vaschenco and private collections of Germany, Estonia, Finland, USA, Canada, Israel, Italy and other countries.