[1][2] Oksana Cherkasova was born on August 20, 1951, in the city of Norilsk.

Then she worked at the Institute of Technical Aesthetics, and then at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio, as an artist and assistant director.

In the years 1979–1981, she studied at the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors in Moscow (in the workshop of Fyodor Khitruk and Yuri Norstein).

She's been making films in collaboration with artists Valentin Olshvang, Andrey Zolotukhin, Boris Vishev and others.

Since 2002, she has been teaching at the Ural State University of Architecture and Art, since 2004 she has been Chair of "Graphics and Computer Animation".