Creator Bio
Zoya Cherkassky
b. 1976
Multidisclipinary artist Zoya Cherkassky was born in Ukraine and immigrated to Israel at age fourteen. From 1996 to 2004, she worked with artist Ruti Nemet in a partnership called Ruti & Zoya. Cherkassky’s first solo exhibition, Collectio Judaica, with a focus on antisemitism, opened in 2002 at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel Aviv. From 2004 to 2008, she was a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence).