Liat Elbling
b.1980, Ramat Gan, Israel;
lives and works in Tel Aviv.
In 2009, she graduated with honors from Minshar School of Art in Tel Aviv. Her work has been displayed in numerous solo and group exhibitions at leading Israeli and international venues, including: Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel (2011); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, (2011, 2017); Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (2012); Kasher|Potamkin Gallery, New York (2014); Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv (2015); Artelli Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2016); Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago (2017); Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv (2018); and more.
Liat won the Leon Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011); Sotheby’s Under the Hammer Award, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv (2013); a scholarship for studies in the Amitim program, Alma College for Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv (2013-2015); and a grant to produce this artist’s book from Mifal Hapais, Israel National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts (2018).
Education
2025 B.A. in Humanities (Cum Laude), The Open University, Tel Aviv
2014 Fellowship Program, ALMA Home for Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv
2009 Photography Department Graduate (Cum Laude), Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv
2005 Fine Arts Studies, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Into Dust | The Gallery for Contemporary Art, Ramat HaSharon, IL
2019 Within | Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2017 Proposals for Disorder | Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, US
2016 Closer Than Ever | Artelli Gallery, Antwerpen, BE
2015 Things As They Are | Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2013 Attacks on Photography | The Open University Gallery, Ra'anana, IL
2012 Gray Concrete | Haifa Museum of Art, IL
2011 Leon Constantiner Photography Award Exhibition | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL
2011 I'm Coming Home | Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2011 (A) Part, Ramat Gan Museum of Art | Ramat Gan, IL
2009 All Those Wonderful Places | Memorial Center Gallery in Kiryat Tivon, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 A Letter to Absalon | Artspace Tel-Aviv, IL
2024 An Asana Moment | MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, IL
On Hold | Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2023 Pots & Present | MOMO Contemporary Art at Hasmonean Heritage Museum Of Modiin, IL
The Biennale of Craft & Design | MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, IL
2022 Dialogues Across Disciplines | Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, NY, US
2021 Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, US
Calipers and Galaxies | Beta Gallery, Jerusalem, IL
Reconstructed Deconstruction | Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels, BE
2020 This Sex Which Is Not One | Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, IL
2019 Shemi in the Public Sphere: Revisited | Atelier Shemi, Kibbutz Cabri, IL
The Active Eye | Oranim College, Kiryat Tivon, IL
2017 Dead End | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL
Non-Place | Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, IL
2016 Del Infinito Gallery | Buenos Aires, AR
Father, Father | P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
The 5th Moscow International Biennale, RU
2015 Flora Palestina | The Morel Derfler Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem, IL
Bones Brigade | Exhibition from the collection of Serge Tiroche, Tel Aviv, IL
2015 Forgiveness | Municipal Art Gallery, Rishon Le’zion, IL
2014 Intangible Beauty | Kasher Potamkin Gallery, Chelsea, NY, US
Confessions | Artists' Residence Herzliya, IL
2013 The Dead or Alive Gallery | City Gallery Kfar Saba, IL
BijlmAIR- Artists residence group exhibition, Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL
First Friday After | Ramat Gan Museum of Art, IL
Surface Currents | Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
No Photography | The Morel Derfler Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem, IL
Fresh Paint 6 | Contemporary Art & Design Fair, Tel Aviv, IL
She-Bush, Yaffo 23 Gallery | Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, IL
2012 Concrete Walls | WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, Haifa, IL
My Safe Reduction to Form | Exile Gallery, Berlin, DE
Location- Home | Umm El-Fahem Art Festival, IL
Side Effects 2– City & Territory | Kayma Gallery, Jaffa, IL
2011 Making Room | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL
Hard Pop | ST- ART Gallery, Jaffa, IL
Borders | Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, IL
2010 Domatophobia | C.S.P Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, IL
Secure Space | Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
Inside Israel | Traveling Exhibition in China, CN
2009 Selected Graduates | The Photography Museum, Tel-Hai, IL
Home | Apart.Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
Photography Department Graduate exhibition | Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Grants / Awards
2022 Creative Encouragement Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture & Sport, IL
2022 The Rabinovich Foundation with the Tel Aviv Municipality Special Project Grant, IL
2016 Grant for Artist Book Production, Israel National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts, IL
2016 URRA, Artist-in-Residence in Buenos Aires, AR
2013 BijlmAIR, Artist-in-Residence in Bijlmer, Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL
2013 Sotheby's Under the Hammer Award, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv, IL
2011 Leon Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL
Teaching
2011-2023 Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, IL
2014-2017 Shenkar College, Multidisciplinary Art Department, Ramat Gan, IL
2013-2015 Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem, IL
2011-2014 Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Collections
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KCMO,US
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, NY, US
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL
START Collection
Private Collections