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Ilana Teicher

Ilana Teicher, a curator of contemporary and modern Israeli art, earned a degree in art history at the University of Haifa and a museology degree at Tel Aviv University. She has curated hundreds of exhibitions, including the one in honor of Israel’s fiftieth anniversary, “Women in Israeli Art 1948–1998.” She holds a master’s degree in art therapy, principally in bibliotherapy.

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"General View in the Studio" by Ofra Zimbalista, 1997

Artists: Israeli, 1970 to 2000

The inclusion of feminism in Israeli art was seen as irrelevant in the 1970s, when Israel was seen as a state of gender equality. But in the following decades, amid vast changes in Israeli society, women worked hard to make themselves seen and have their stories told in the wider world of Israeli art.