Nira Pereg

Nira Pereg was born in 1969 in Tel Aviv

Nira Pereg was born in 1969 in Tel Aviv. Her parents are Ruti and the graphic designer and artist Moshe Pereg. In the early 1990s she lived in New York, and from 2005 to 2007 she lived in Germany.

She earned a bachelor's degree at Cooper Union in New York from 1989 to 1993. She then completed a master's degree at Bezalel in Jerusalem from 1998 to 2000.

Her work deals with holy places, physical barriers and hidden borders, and often carries a political message. In Sabbath 2008 she filmed the closing of religious neighborhoods in Jerusalem before the Sabbath. Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah follows Jewish and Muslim visitors at the Cave of the Patriarchs, and The Right to Clean was filmed inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Her works have been shown at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern. She has taught at Shenkar since 2012, and in January 2025 she was named head of its School of Multidisciplinary Art.