Jude

Zoya Cherkassky

2001

Star of David brooch with the word "Jude" in the center.
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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).

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