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Sigalit Landau, Israeli, born 1969. Sigalit Landau, Israeli sculptor, video and installation artist, born in Jerusalem in 1969. She grew up in Jerusalem and spent several years in the US and the UK. She studied dance at the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem and after serving in the Israeli Army in the late 1980's, moved to Tel Aviv. In 1993, she spent a year as an exchange student at Cooper Union School of Art and Design in New York. In 1994, she graduated from Bezalel Academy if Art and Design. By the end of the 1990s, Landau began to create video art works, with a clear and direct physical expression. Simultaneously, Landau began to develop figurative sculptures made of papier-mâché, of skin-peeled figures engaged in various actions.
In 2011 Landau exhibited a solo exhibition in the Israeli pavilion of the Venice Biennale.
Sigalit Landau lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Education

1991-1994 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1993 First semester of 4th year at the Cooper Union, student exchange, New York
1995 Post Graduate extended studies at Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem

Awards And Prizes

1993 The Jewish National Fund Sculpture Award
1994 Moshe Meir Scholorship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1994 Marie Fisher Prize for Encouragement of Young Artists, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1997 Ingeborg Bachman Scholarship, established by Anselm Kiefer, Wolf Foundation
1998 Artist-in-Residence, Hoffmann Collection, Berlin
1999 British Competition by Art Angel and London Newspaper "The Times", First prize
2001 Acquisition Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2001 Prize for a Young Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2003 George and Janet Jaffin Prize for Excellence in Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2003 Artist-in-Residence, IASPIS - The International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Finalist, Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2004 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2007 The Dan Sandel and the Sandel Family Foundation Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2012 Artist's Grant Recipient
2016 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem