Tal Dekel

Tal Dekel was born in 1968 in United States

Dekel was born in the United States on February 1, 1968, and moved to Israel as a young child. Her grandmother was an Etzel fighter. Her father, Ariel Oster, is an industrial psychologist, and her mother, Eva Oster-Lindh, was a Swedish citizen.

She studied art history at Tel Aviv University and earned her doctorate there between 1999 and 2003. In 2015 she did postdoctoral work in Israel studies at the University of Maryland.

From 1996 to 1997 she was curator of the O.R.S collection, and later curated exhibitions linked to her research. She has taught in the Women and Gender Studies Program at Tel Aviv University since 2001 and in its Department of Art History since 2010. In 2017 she became head of the Visual Literacy program and of Curatorial Studies at Kibbutzim College, where she was made associate professor in 2024.

Her research looks at visual culture and its ties to gender, race, class and nationality, including women immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, Ethiopia and the Philippines. In 2015 she co-founded the Association for Women's Art and Gender Research in Israel and became its chair in 2018. She is also a board member of the Achoti movement for women in Israel.