Zoma was born to a Jewish family in Kovna in 1908.  He moved to Montevideo Uruguay in 1927 where he settled and began studying painting and the philosophy of art with the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García. 
In 1959, he was appointed member of the Uruguayan Commission of Fine Arts and between 1963 and 1964 he was cultural attaché of the diplomatic mission of Uruguay in Israel.
His work is exhibited at the National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay) and the Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, the National Museum of Jerusalem, the Museum of Montevideo (Minnesota), his own house (Montevideo - Uruguay) and several art museums in New York in the United States.