Zoya Lerman was born on June 14, 1934, in Kyiv. She graduated in 1959 from the Kyiv Art Institute, where she studied with S. Grigoriev, V. Kostetsky, and G. Melikhov. Since 1960, Lerman Z.N. - Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Participant in the city, republican, all-union, and foreign exhibitions. Zoya Lerman is a bright representative of the second wave of the avant-garde - underground, along with her husband Yuri Lutskevich, Ivan Marchuk, Julia Sheinis, Evgeny Volobuev, and other Kyiv artists. The works are stored in the collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Museum of Modern Fine Art of Ukraine, the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of the National Artists Union, private collections in Europe, the USA, and Israel.