Academic sculptor Marija Ujević Galetović completed primary and secondary school in Zagreb. In 1953, she was enrolled at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts - Sculpture Department, where she graduated in 1958 in the class of Professor Frano Kršinić. After her studies, she trained at the Central School of Art in London. She has been on several study trips (Italy, England, France). She has been working at ALU since 1987, progressing from assistant professor to full professor status in 1995. She was the head of the Cyprus department on several occasions.

He is one of the main continuers of the tradition of Croatian figurative sculpture, connecting it with contemporary and avant-garde concepts. At the beginning of the 1960s, she approached pop art and new figuration; she refined the forms and emphasized the expressiveness of different materials (alabaster, porcelain, bronze, polyester, aluminum). She shaped the portraits as sculptural metaphors based on natural forms, and in the volumes with sharp edges and distinctive stylization, she was close to cubism (A. G. Matoš, 1979). She achieved expressiveness with rhythmic contrasts of light and shadow, and the metaphysical meaning of the statue with color. In the 1980s, she designed postmodernist sculptures. In the latter works, she synthesized her experiences using classical and modern associations.