Natalia Zourabova is a contemporary Israeli painter. 

Born in Moscow in 1975, she moved to Berlin in 2000 and emigrated to Israel in 2004. She lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo. 

Zourabova studied at The Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow (1995-2000) and at Berlin University of the Arts (2000-2003). 

She has presented solo exhibitions, among others at Haifa Museum of Art (2024), Artport, Tel Aviv (2023), Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2019-20), Janco Dada Museum (2005), and had multiple solo exhibitions in Israel, and Germany. Her resent exhibition with KALINER “Nightlight” took place in 2025. 

Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at institutions including The Israel Museum (2015, 2018), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2017), De Appel, Amsterdam (2020), Sighnaghi Museum, Georgia (2022), The Mediterranean Biennale (2013, 2020), Garage Museum (2020), Ein Harod Museum of Art (2017, 2024), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2017), Les Salaisons, France (2010), and Västernorrlands Museum, Sweden (2000), among others. 

In 2011, Zourabova co-founded The New Barbizon, a collective of five painters active in Israel until 2022. In 2013, she founded Smezalel: The Mothball-Free School of Painting and Drawing, an independent educational project based in Tel Aviv. 

In 2015, she published the artist's book From Funeral to Wedding on Yeffet Street. The original work is held in the collection of The Israel Museum, and the publication is catalogued in the library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her second artist's book, Not a Word About the War, was published in June 2026. 

Zourabova has received several awards, including Discount Bank Artistic Encouragement Award (2019), Yuri Stern Prize from the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration (2018), and Igal Ahouvi Art Collection Promising Artist Award (2011). 

Her work is held in the collections of The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Bank Discount, Bank Hapoalim, Maimonides Fund (USA), The Imago Mundi Collection (Italy), The Regional Gallery of the Highlands/Jihlava (Czech Republic), The Knesset art collection and other public and private collections.

 Selected Artworks

 Exhibitions