Einat Arif-Galanti | |
Birth Date: | 1975 |
Birth Place: | Jerusalem, Israel |
Nationality: | Israeli |
Known For: | Photographer, Video Artist |
Einat Arif-Galanti (Hebrew: עינת עריף-גלנטי; born 1975) is an Israeli visual artist, mainly known for her photographic and video works.
Arif-Galanti was born in 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel.[1] Between the years 1995 and 1998 she studied in the Applied Photography Department of the Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem. She went on to win two consecutive America-Israel Cultural Foundation Photography Scholarships, in 1998 and 1999. In 2002 she studied drawing and painting at The Jerusalem Studio School led by Israel Hershberg, an institution that follows a traditional approach to figurative art. In 2004 she co-founded the Agripas 12 cooperative gallery in Jerusalem, together with her husband Yossi Galanti and other artists.
Arif-Galanti is a lecturer at Pardes High-Art School in Givat Washington. She exhibited 10 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, among them at: The Israel Museum,[2] Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art,[3] The City Museum of Collegno, Torino, Haifa Museum of Art,[4] and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan.[1] In 2013 she received the Mifal HaPais grant and in 2018 Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport prize for the Encouragement of Creativity.[5] Her work is included in various private and public collections. She is and author in Untitled magazine and shares a studio at Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem.[6] Her work is in the collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan.[7]