Malka Tsentsiper is an Israeli painter and sculptor who immigrated to Israel in 1966 from Vilnius, Lithuania (former USSR). After completing her formal education in the fields of mathematics and musicology Malka pursued a career in Information Technology as a software engineer, while at the same time beginning to study and experiment with art. Eventually, she was immersed in its magical world, left her permanent job, and became a full time artist.

Malka utilizes different techniques, styles, and themes in painting as well as in sculpture, all of which have its distinctive features: strong and sometimes contrasting images and joy of life. In sculpture Malka follows the figurative tradition with mainly the same Naïve Art and symbolic images.

Malka has received the top award in naïve art category at the Moscow International Art Festival 2009 for a series of paintings on Jewish Life in Eastern Europe. Following this success, her solo exhibitions were held at the National Art Museum in Minsk, at the Chagall House-Museum in Vitebsk (both Belarus), and at various exhibitions in Riga (Latvia), Kiev (Ukraine), Vilnius (Lithuania), Moscow and St.-Petersburg (Russian Federation).

Later her participation in the 10-th Jubilee Moscow International Art Festival in 2016 was commended by the “Jury Applause” award. Malka held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel, several European countries and the USA, and her artworks are part of permanent exhibitions at museums in Riga, Minsk, New Jersey, Quebec and private collections around the world.

Malka Tsentsiper is a member of the Association of Painters and Sculptors in Israel. Currently, Malka lives and works in Modiin, Israel.