Anat Litwin is an Israeli /American artist and curator working in the medium of paper cut-outs, installation, and public art. She received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel in 2001, and her MFA in 2005 from Hunter College in New York, Department of Combined Media with a focus on Public Art. She is the recipient of the American-Israeli award for outstanding artists in 2001 and the Mandel award for young artists. Her work has been exhibited in various venues in Europe, Israel, and New York, and is included in several private collections. Anat has worked as the Director of the Makor Artists-in-Residence program and Makor Gallery of the 92nd Street Y in NYC, and then became the Associate Director and senior fellow of LABA at the 14th Street Y. With this rich experience she founded in 2006 in her own studio The HomeBase project as a meaningful artistic entity, which since has been featured in notable publications and art venues such as the New York Times, New York Magazine and VOLTA ART FAIR. HomeBase, can be seen as a social sculpture based on an interest for cultivating contemporary art within a concrete communal, urban, and spacial setting, while evoking a critical cultural and social dialog.
Israel/USA
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