Ella Amitay Sadovsky

Ella Amitay Sadovsky was born in 1964 in Gesher

Ella Amitay Sadovsky was born in 1964 in Kibbutz Gesher.

She studied chemical engineering at the Technion, earning a BSc in 1991 and an MSc in 1994. She received a PhD in materials and interfaces from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1999. From 2000 to 2003 she was a postdoctoral fellow in physical chemistry and mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

She then turned to art, studying at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and at Hamidrasha School of Art. She earned a BFA with honors in 2007 and an MFA in 2009 from Bezalel. From 2004 to 2007 she was a senior lecturer in physical chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Since 2009 she has been a senior lecturer in textile design at Shenkar, and since 2013 also at the Technion's Faculty of Architecture. Her work combines recycled textiles and paint and draws on her scientific knowledge. It is held in collections including the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and The Open Museum, and she took part in the 2017 Venice Biennale.