Tanya Rudka was born in 1971 in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea. As a child, she studied art in the Simferopol Children's art school, before studying five years at the Crimean Art College. In 1994 she immigrated to Israel and settled down in a small town in the north of Israel. She has been working as artist and taken part on numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel, The US and lately also in the Far East.