Anita Zotkina
Each painting is a way home - to memory, feeling, and the magic world I carry within me.
Biography
Anita Zotkina is a painter working primarily in oil on canvas. She was born in Odessa, near the Black Sea, and began drawing and painting as a child. Her early work focused on animals, people, and dreamlike scenes, often created from memory or imagination.
At age 10, she began studying drawing and painting at the Grekov Art School in Odessa. After one year, she chose not to continue the full program, preferring to follow her own creative direction. After high school, she painted full-time, exhibiting and selling her work in Odessa galleries and at the City Garden.
In her late twenties, Anita moved to New England, where she continued painting while building a new life. Over time, her work became quieter, more symbolic, and rooted in emotional memory. She now paints in a style she calls Softique — a gentle, surreal, and introspective approach to storytelling through color, form, and light. Her paintings often feature women, animals, and imagined landscapes, evoking the feeling of a world remembered from childhood.
She shares her work online and in-person through exhibitions and art fairs. Each piece is a way of returning to something meaningful — a quiet world that still lives within her.
Influences
vincent van gogh, banksy, Viktor Vasnetsov
Education
The artist at work
Collective Expositions
2025 Upcoming - - The Other Art Fair - Nov 2025 Brooklyn, NY, United States
2025 NAWA's 136th Annual Members Exhibition, Leonovich Gallery New York, NY, United States
2025 Everything But The Kitschen Sink 2025 - La Luz de Jesus Los Angeles, CA, United States
2024 NAWA's 135th Annual Members Exhibition New York, NY, United States
2024 NAWA: Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories, Vanda Gallery New Rochelle, NY, United States
2024 NAWA: Life's Journey, Flushing Bank Brooklyn, MA, United States
2024 NAWA MA: Self-Awareness and Love, Wedeman Gallery Newton, MA, United States
2023 'Nothing Permanent' Dartmouth Cultural Center South Dartmouth, MA, United States
2023 'Dance with Orange' URI Providence Campus Gallery Providence, RI, United States
2023 NAWA's 134th Annual Members Exhibition, Tribeca New York, NY, United States
2023 'CONTRAST' small work exhibit, Galatea Fine Arts in SoWa Boston, MA, United States
2023 Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories: Manhattan’s 53rd Street Branch Library New York, NY, United States
2022 National Association of Women Artists: New Members Exhibition New York, NY, United States
2022 Crooked Tree Art Center, DART for ART Traverse City, MI, United States
2022 ARTBOX.PROJECT Miami 3.0 during ART BASEL Art Week Miami, FL, United States
2021 Las Laguna Art Gallery On-line, United States
2021 The Other Art Fair Virtual, United States
2021 The Other Art Fair Los Angeles, CA, United States
2019 SEABA: Art Hop Burlington, VT, United States
2018 Montpelier Alive: Artwalk Montpelier, VT, United States