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
2013-2015 Fellowship Programs, ALMA, Home for Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv, Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2005-2009 Minshar School of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel (with honors)
2004-2005 Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Into Dust | The Gallery for Contemporary Art, Ramat HaSharon, Israel
2019 Within | Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2017 Proposals for Disorder| Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, U.S
2016 Closer Than Ever| Artelli Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium
2015 Things As They Are | Julie M. gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2013 Attacks on Photography | The Open University gallery, Ra'anana, Israel
2012 Gray Concrete | Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2011 Leon Constantiner Photography Award Exhibition | Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2011 I'm Coming Home | Indie Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2011 (A) Part, Ramat Gan Museum of Art | Ramat Gan, Israel
2009 All Those Wonderful Places | Memorial Center Gallery in Kiryat Tivon, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 On Hold | Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2023 Pots & Present| MOMO Contemporary Art at Hasmonean Heritage Museum Of Modiin, IL
2023 The Biennale of Creat & Design | MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, IL
2022 Dialogues Across Disciplines| Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, N.Y, US
2021 Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, U.S
2021 Calipers and Galaxies | Beta Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2021 Reconstructed Deconstruction | Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020 This Sex which is not one | Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa,Israel
2019 Shemi in the Public Sphere: Revisited | Atelier Shemi, Kibbutz Cabri,Israel
2019 The Active Eye, Oranim College, Kiryat Tivon,Israel
2017 Dead End | Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2017 Non-Place | kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel
2016 Del Infinito Gallery | Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Father, Father | P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2016 The 5th Moscow International Biennale, Russia
2015 Flora Palestina | the Morel Derfler Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel
2015 Bones Brigade | Exhibition from the collection of Serge Tiroche, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Forgiveness | Municipal Art Gallery, Rishon Le’zion, Israel
2014 Intangible Beauty | kasher potamkin gallery, Chelsea, New York, U.S
2014 Confessions | Artists' Residence Herzliya, Israel
2013 The Dead or Alive Gallery | City Gallery Kfar Saba, Israel
2013 BijlmAIR- Artists residence group exhibition, Amsterdam Zuidoost, Netherlands
2013 First Friday After | Ramat Gan Museum of Art, Israel
2013 Surface Currents | Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2013 No Photography | the Morel Derfler Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 Fresh Paint 6 | Contemporary Art & Design Fair, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2013 She-Bush, Yaffo 23 gallery | Beztalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
2012 Concrete Walls | WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, Haifa, Israel
2012 My Safe Reduction to Form | Exile Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012 Location- Home | Umm El-Fahem Art Festival, Israel
2012 Side Effects 2– City & Territory | Kayma Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2011 Making Room | Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2011 Hard Pop | ST- ART Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2011 Borders | Beztalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
2010 Domatophobia | C.S.P Kibbutzim College of Adulation, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2010 Secure Space | Alfred Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2010 Inside Israel | Traveling Exhibition in China, China
2009 Selected Graduates | The Photography Museum, Tel-Hai, Israel
2009 Home | Apart.Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2009 Photography Department graduate exhibition | Minshar School of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Grants / Awards
2022 Creative Encouragement Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture & Sport, IL
2022 The Rabinovich Foundation with the Tel Aviv Municipality, Special Project Grant
2016 Grant for Artist book Production, Israel National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts
2016 URRA, artist-in-resident in Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 BijlmAIR- artist-in-resident in Bijlmer, Amsterdam Zuidoost, Netherlands
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, Israel
2014-2017 Shenkar College, Multidisciplinary Art Department, Ramat Gan, Israel
2013-2015 Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem, Israel
2011-2014 Minshar School of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Collections
Nelson-Atkins Museum of art, KCMO,U.S
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, N.Y, U.S
Tel-Aviv Museum of art, Israel
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