zoe finkelman is an artist.

Brooklyn-based artist Zoe Finkelman bends the laws of space and reality with her paintings, drawings, prints, and digital work. Spending her youth cycled through the Troubled Teen Industry, she learned the art of escapism, developing her own world of refuge in her head. With her paintings, prints, and other works, she seeks to give audiences a look into this internal reality giving them and herself a greater understanding of how the mind copes with trauma, memory, disability, and the greater concept of fantasy itself.

Painting from a combination of life, drawing, photography, and film, Zoe establishes environments that are as familiar as they are impossible. Driven by diverse interests, Zoe explores ideas such as myth, divinity, and femininity all whilst immersed in the technical concepts of light, color, and space. Primarily an oil painter, Zoe continues to explore these themes in the mediums of lithography, drawing, ceramics, photography, and experimental film.

Zoe is currently studying at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where she is in her junior year receiving a BFA in Painting and a minor in Writing and Literature. She has previously studied at the Chicago Academy for the Arts and completed programs at the School of the Art Institute Chicago and the Savannah College of Art and Design.

You can find Zoe’s work on Instagram @fungalfat or go to her website www.zoefinkelman.com.