Yulia Yuryevna Zelenskaya was born in 1979, in the city of Nalchik. She graduated from the Kabardino-Balkarian College of Culture and Arts (2002), then the faculty of decorative and applied arts of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H. M. Berbekov (2009).
Since 2007, Yulia Zelenskaya has been actively participating in republican exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Kabardino-Balkaria. Among them: Young Artists of the South of Russia (Stavropol, 2012), The World in the Paintings of Young Artists of the Caucasus (Grozny, 2013), Rainbow of Spring (Nalchik, "2017), Art-Krasnodar (2018), South of Russia XII (Rostov-on-Don, 2018).
In 2017, the Kabardino-Balkarian Cultural Foundation organized a personal exhibition of Yulia Zelenskaya. The artist's works have been repeatedly exhibited at the National Museum of Kabardino-Balkaria. The artist's paintings are in private collections in Russia, France, Germany, and the USA.

Each portrait of Yulia Zelenskaya is a journey through the invisible labyrinth of the soul to its most secret core, its most valuable treasure - that which gives freedom and immortality.  Portraits often depict only a face or a head bowed in a quest for peace and serenity. The characters' eyes are closed or move away from the viewer's gaze, existing only in a dimension open to them. This brings to mind the practice of intelligent heartfelt prayer in the mystical Christian teachings of heschiasis: detachment from the world, inner contemplation of divine grace.

The connection between the manifest and the uncreated is also expressed in the color scheme of the portraits. Yulia Zelenskaya loves combinations of different shades of orange and blue. These colors complement each other: the first affirms life, the energy of creation, the joy of being; the second reveals its hidden spiritual essence, gives a feeling of peace, clarity, silence.