Artis

Born in 1971 in Tel Aviv, Lior Shvil currently lives in New York and attends Columbia University's School of the Arts MFA program.  Shvil works primarily in video, installation and sculpture. His works are many layered, and both poetic and critical; they tap into collective memory (cultural, myth, history), inspired by television, cinema and story telling. Shvil received his B.A. from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. He has had a solo shows at the Herzelia Museum of Art and The Heder Gallery in Israel. His work has been featuerd in group exhibitions at the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel, The Milliken Gallery in Stockholm, The 7th International Istanbul Biennial, and the NGBK Gallery in Berlin. Shvil won the Samuel Givon Prize for Young Artist, awarded by the The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as the Israel - America Fund for Culture, Israel.