Emily Zhukov is an artist and educator living and working in Panama since 1994. She studied art and literature at universities in the USA, France and Spain, living and exhibiting in Madrid and New York City before settling in Panama, where she is an active collaborator in the local art community and teaches contemporary art as adjunct professor at Florida State University – Panama.

Interested in the power of art to communicate across disciplines, she is a founding member of Estudio Nuboso, a knowledge exchange platform to promote connections between art, science and ecology.

Her work explores the visual, tactile and conceptual possibilities of a range of materials as a way to reflect on the physical and spiritual relationships between humans and their cultural and natural environment.