Zoia Kudish

Biography

Zoya Kudish was born on March 25, 1925 in Petrykivka. In 1941, she graduated from the Petrykivka School of Decorative Drawing, the last graduate before the school was closed due to the war. She studied with Tetiana Pata and her daughter Vekla Kucherenko.

Since 1959, she worked in the varnish painting shop at the Druzhba factory, where, together with other students of Tetiana Patia, she participated in the revival of Petrykivka painting as a craft. In 1970, she joined the team of home-based masters at the Dnipropetrovs’k Art and Production Plant, headed by Fedir Panko.

She was the mother of the famous Petrykivka painting master Tamara Kudish, and the tradition continued in the next generation.

She was a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1965. She died on March 2, 1998 in Saratov.

Artistic Practice

Zoya Kudish preserved her individual taste and favorite ornamental motifs in her works, which distinguished her among her like-minded colleagues - each of Tetiana Pata’s students, despite the common school, found their own voice in painting.

Recognition

Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (1965). Participant in exhibitions of Petrykivka painting.