[3] Her works focus on her personal experiences, including childhood in the Soviet Union and immigrant life in Israel.

[6] In 2015, Cherkassky-Nnadi created a collection of art pieces depicting everyday scenes she observed throughout her childhood in the Soviet Ukraine.

[9] In 2010, Cherkassky-Nnadi founded the group alongside four Soviet-born artists also living in Israel: Olga Kundina, Anna Lukashevsky, Asya Lukin, and Natalia Zourabova.

The name refers to the Barbizon School of Painters that were active in France in the 19th century and encouraged realism both in painting and in perspective.

[11] These mixed-media works, mostly using pencils, watercolor, and wax crayons, depict scenes from the attacks on civilians in Israel's south.

On February 12, 2024, protestors disrupted a talk Cherkassky-Nnadi was giving at New York’s Jewish Museum, calling her work “imperial propaganda” and characterizing the museum’s exhibition of her work as “manufactur[ing] consent for genocide.”[14] Commenting on this event, Cherkassky-Nnadi said, “It's hard to defend the current Israeli government to them because I think the government bears major blame for what happened.

[5] Cherkassky-Nnadi has also received mixed responses to her portrayal of the Soviet Union; some critics fault her for depicting too much poverty and negativity, while others suggest she underplayed the poor living standards during that time.

[7] Other critics point out the continuity of Cherkassky-Nnadi's visual language with late-Soviet artistic practices[16] and the need to place her works within broader conceptual frameworks.