Julia Zisman

Julia Zisman (1961- ) (Russian: Юлия Зисман) is a Russian-born Israeli painter.

Julia Zisman was born in Chelyabinsk. She is handicapped and wheelchair-bound. Zisman graduated from the department of Easel Painting the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow. In 1991, she immigrated to Israel and settled in Haifa. Since then she has been a member of the Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association. Her works are in private collections in the US, Italy, France, Germany, Russia and Israel.

Zisman paints in a figurative and narrative style using "similes that expose her personal codes like in a private diary." She says her painting sets her free, allowing her to "wander like the wind and fly like a spirit."