Halyna Istomina has a PhD in art history; is a research associate in the Department of Fine and Decorative and Applied Arts at the Maksym Rylskyi Institute for Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; and researcher of folk ceramics.
She studied ceramics at the Rivne State University of Humanities, and after graduation, worked as a lecturer in the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the Institute of Arts. She authored the book, The Art of Folk Ceramics of Volyn in the Second Half of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Volynski Oberehy, 2009.