Sigalit Landau
Born in Jerusalem 1969, lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Sigalit Landau, an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, painting, photography, and
sculpture. She currently lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Landau’s work has been exhibited in leading venues around the world. Her one-person shows include: Temple Mount, The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1995); VoorWerk 5, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1996); Resident
Alien I, Documenta X, Kassel (1997); The Country, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv (2002); Carcel de Amor, Museo Reina
Sofia, Madrid (2005); The Endless Solution, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2005); The Dining Hall, KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin (2007); Projects 87: Sigalit Landau, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2008); Salt Sails
+ Sugar Knots, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris (2008); One Man’s Floor Is Another Man’s Feelings, The Israeli Pavilion,
54th International Art Exhibition—la Biennale di Venezia (2011); Caryatid, The Negev Museum of Art, Beersheba
(2012); Infinite Games, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow (2012); Margin, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (2013); The
Ram in the Thicket, Ginza Maison Hermès, Tokyo (2013); Phoenician Sand Dance, MACBA, Barcelona (2014); Moving
to Stand Still, Koffler Centre ofFine Arts, Toronto (2014); Miqlat, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
(2016); Sorrow Grove, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (2016); Salt Years, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2019).
Landau was the recipient of the 1993 Jewish National Fund (USA) Sculpture Award; the 2000 Times/Artangel Open
Commission, London; the 2004 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv;
the 2004 Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for Young Israeli Artists, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the 2007 Dan Sandel and
the Sandel Family Foundation for Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; and the 2016 Sandberg Prize
for Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others. In 2017 Landau received an Honorary Doctor of
Philosophy from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and she was conferred the title of Chevalier dans
l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government; Honorary Associate degree from the Open University
of Israel (2019) and Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (2020).