Einat Arif-Galanti

Einat Arif-Galanti was born in 1975 in Jerusalem

Einat Arif-Galanti was born in 1975 in Jerusalem. She attended an arts high school in the city.

From 1995 to 1998 she studied applied photography at the Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem. She received America-Israel Cultural Foundation photography scholarships in 1998 and 1999. In 2002 she studied drawing and painting at the Jerusalem Studio School, led by Israel Hershberg.

In 2004 she co-founded the Agripas 12 cooperative gallery in Jerusalem with her husband Yossi Galanti and other artists. Her work often uses still life and draws on the ideas of vanitas and memento mori to raise questions about current culture and the ecological crisis. She has shown work at the Israel Museum, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the Haifa Museum of Art and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan.

She lectures at the Pardes High-Art School in Givat Washington and has written for Untitled magazine. She received a Mifal HaPais grant in 2013 and a Ministry of Culture and Sport prize for the encouragement of creativity in 2018. Her works are held in private and public collections.