Zinaida Zakharova (born in 1980). Lives and works in Rome, Italy.

Education:
-Development of Visual Perception, FineArt School (Moscow, 2014)
-Photography as Contemporary Art, New School of Photography (Russia, 2014, 2021)
-Workshops in watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, cyanotype, and art history (2016–2025)

The artist was born and raised in a small Siberian village, in an environment shaped by the coexistence of diverse cultural and religious traditions, including Orthodox Christianity, Islamic practices, and the ornamental visual languages of the peoples of the North. This context formed a perception of reality as multilayered and non-hierarchical, where different temporal, cultural, and spatial dimensions coexist without being reduced to a single narrative.

In her projects, the artist approaches the archive as a living, unstable substance of memory, perceived as a fluid space of reconstruction, displacement, and reinterpretation of personal and collective histories.
Her working method is based on assembling fragmented elements into a coherent visual structure. At its core is a multilayered, authorial technique that combines alternative photographic processes (cyanotype) with image transfer and analog–digital collage.