LILI ALMOG
ARTIST BIO & STATEMENT
Israeli-born photographer Lili Almog is celebrated for her intimate and evocative portraits that explore women's cultural identities worldwide. She moved to New York in the mid-1980s, launching her career as a photojournalist for various international publications, with a primary focus on fashion and portraiture. Almog’s artistic vision delves into representations of the female body and psyche, capturing the spiritual and cultural identities of women influenced by Western culture. Her major series include Bed Sequence (2002), Perfect Intimacy (2006), The Other Half of the Sky (2009), and The Space Within (2019).
Expanding beyond portraiture, Almog’s later projects—Between Presence and Absence (2012) and Down to Earth (2015)—explore environmental themes, documenting human traces through photography, sculpture, and video. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with solo shows at esteemed institutions such as The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), Emmanuel Walderdoff Gallery (Germany), Photographers’ Place (UK), The Alternative Museum (New York), Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston, MA), Museet for Fotokunst (Denmark), Ffotogallery (UK), Prague House of Photography (Czech Republic), and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel).
Almog’s photographs are held in prestigious permanent collections, including The Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA), The Harvard Art Museums (MA), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL), and Musée de la Photographie (Belgium), as well as numerous private collections. Her published monographs include Bed Sequence (2002), Perfect Intimacy (2006), The Other Half of the Sky (2009), and Between Presence and Absence, New York (2015).
Israeli-born photographer Lili Almog is celebrated for her intimate and evocative portraits that explore women's cultural identities worldwide. She moved to New York in the mid-1980s, launching her career as a photojournalist for various international publications, with a primary focus on fashion and portraiture. Almog’s artistic vision delves into representations of the female body and psyche, capturing the spiritual and cultural identities of women influenced by Western culture. Her major series include Bed Sequence (2002), Perfect Intimacy (2006), The Other Half of the Sky (2009), and The Space Within (2019).
Expanding beyond portraiture, Almog’s later projects—Between Presence and Absence (2012) and Down to Earth (2015)—explore environmental themes, documenting human traces through photography, sculpture, and video. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with solo shows at esteemed institutions such as The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), Emmanuel Walderdoff Gallery (Germany), Photographers’ Place (UK), The Alternative Museum (New York), Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston, MA), Museet for Fotokunst (Denmark), Ffotogallery (UK), Prague House of Photography (Czech Republic), and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel).
Almog’s photographs are held in prestigious permanent collections, including The Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA), The Harvard Art Museums (MA), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL), and Musée de la Photographie (Belgium), as well as numerous private collections. Her published monographs include Bed Sequence (2002), Perfect Intimacy (2006), The Other Half of the Sky (2009), and Between Presence and Absence, New York (2015).
Expanding beyond portraiture, Almog’s later projects—Between Presence and Absence (2012) and Down to Earth (2015)—explore environmental themes, documenting human traces through photography, sculpture, and video. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with solo shows at esteemed institutions such as The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), Emmanuel Walderdoff Gallery (Germany), Photographers’ Place (UK), The Alternative Museum (New York), Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston, MA), Museet for Fotokunst (Denmark), Ffotogallery (UK), Prague House of Photography (Czech Republic), and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel).
Almog’s photographs are held in prestigious permanent collections, including The Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA), The Harvard Art Museums (MA), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL), and Musée de la Photographie (Belgium), as well as numerous private collections. Her published monographs include Bed Sequence (2002), Perfect Intimacy (2006), The Other Half of the Sky (2009), and Between Presence and Absence, New York (2015).
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