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Zoia Skoropadenko (b. 1978, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine) is a contemporary artist based in Monaco. She works in painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics. Since settling in Monaco she has exhibited widely in Europe, Japan and the United States. In 2011 Monaco granted her the status of Artist-Painter of Monaco. She founded the micro-gallery La Vitrine Contemporaine de Monaco.

Her sumo body of work is made through direct observation in stables and at tournaments. In 2025–26 the Taihō Sumo Memorial Museum (Teshikaga, Hokkaido) presented her exhibition honouring yokozuna Taihō Kōki.