Darya "Dasha" Alexandrovna Zhukova (Russian: Дарья "Даша" Александровна Жукова; born 8 June 1981) is a Russian-American art collector, businesswoman, magazine editor, and socialite.
After becoming involved with Roman Abramovich, she returned to Moscow and later moved to London where she enrolled at the College of Naturopathic Medicine but did not complete the program.
In 2014, the institution changed its name to Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and, the following year, moved to its first permanent home in Gorky Park.
The building, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is a preservation project that transformed a 1968 Soviet Modernist canteen into a radical space for exhibitions, publishing, research, and education.
[15] In addition, Zhukova is the Editorial Director of GARAGE magazine,[16] a biannual print publication that focuses on the collaboration between contemporary art and fashion.
Among the magazine's contributors are artists such as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Nick Knight, Marc Jacobs, Richard Prince, John Baldessari, Inez & Vinoodh, and Patrick Demarchelier.
In 2014, a photograph of Zhukova sitting on a chair designed as a mannequin of a black woman was featured on Buro 24/7, an online fashion publication.
[19][20][21] In 2008, Zhukova married Roman Abramovich, a Russian businessman who is the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC.