Ayelet Carmi

Ayelet Carmi was born in 1967 in Beit HaShita

Ayelet Carmi was born on 21 July 1967 in Kibbutz Beit HaShita. She lives and works in Tel Aviv and Herzliya.

She graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

Her paintings show female figures in mythological settings, hybrid forms and imagined machines. Many of her works are built from layers of thin, transparent paper. She has held solo shows at the Museum of Art Ein Harod, the Haifa Museum of Art, the Kibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv and the Jerusalem Artists House, and has shown in group exhibitions in Israel and in Berlin.

In recent years she has worked on video and performance with artist Meirav Heiman, including the Israel Trail project. In 2019 the two showed Sphere at Neve Schechter in Tel Aviv, a work on the Counting of the Omer and the exclusion of women. Carmi teaches at the Holon Institute of Technology, HaMidrasha at Beit Berl College and the Tel Aviv Museum's Meyerhoff Art Education Center.