Sigalit
Landau
Sigalit Landau is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, painting, photography, and sculpture.
Landau’s work has been exhibited in leading venues around the world. Her one-person shows include: “Temple Mount”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1995); “VoorWerk 5”, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1996); “Resident Alien I”, Documenta X, Kassel (1997); “The Country”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv (2002); “Carcel de Amor”, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2005); “The Endless Solution”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2005); “The Dining Hall”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2007); “Projects 87: Sigalit Landau”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2008); “Salt Sails + Sugar Knots”, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris (2008); “One Man’s Floor Is Another Man’s Feelings”, The Israeli Pavilion, 54th International Art Exhibition—la Biennale di Venezia (2011); “Caryatid”, The Negev Museum of Art, Beersheba (2012); “Infinite Games”, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow (2012); “Margin”, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (2013); “The Ram in the Thicket”, Ginza Maison Hermes, Tokyo (2013); “Phoenician Sand Dance”, MACBA, Barcelona (2014); “Moving to Stand Still”, Koffler Centre of Fine Arts, Toronto (2014); “Miqlat”, Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme, Paris (2016); “Sorrow Grove”, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (2016); and “Salt Years”, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2019).
Landau was the recipient of the 1993 Jewish National Fund (USA) Sculpture Award; the 2000 Times/Artangel Open Commission, London; the 2004 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; the 2004 Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for Young Israeli Artists, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the 2007 Dan Sandel and the Sandel Family Foundation for Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; and the 2016 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others.
In 2017 Landau received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and she was conferred the title of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Landau holds an Honorary Associate degree from the Open University of Israel (2019), Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (2020) and Honorary Doctorate from Bar Ilan University, Israel (2023).
Sigalit Landau is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, painting, photography, and sculpture.
Landau’s work has been exhibited in leading venues around the world. Her one-person shows include: “Temple Mount”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1995); “VoorWerk 5”, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1996); “Resident Alien I”, Documenta X, Kassel (1997); “The Country”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv (2002); “Carcel de Amor”, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2005); “The Endless Solution”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2005); “The Dining Hall”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2007); “Projects 87: Sigalit Landau”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2008); “Salt Sails + Sugar Knots”, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris (2008); “One Man’s Floor Is Another Man’s Feelings”, The Israeli Pavilion, 54th International Art Exhibition—la Biennale di Venezia (2011); “Caryatid”, The Negev Museum of Art, Beersheba (2012); “Infinite Games”, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow (2012); “Margin”, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (2013); “The Ram in the Thicket”, Ginza Maison Hermes, Tokyo (2013); “Phoenician Sand Dance”, MACBA, Barcelona (2014); “Moving to Stand Still”, Koffler Centre of Fine Arts, Toronto (2014); “Miqlat”, Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme, Paris (2016); “Sorrow Grove”, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (2016); and “Salt Years”, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2019).
Landau was the recipient of the 1993 Jewish National Fund (USA) Sculpture Award; the 2000 Times/Artangel Open Commission, London; the 2004 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; the 2004 Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for Young Israeli Artists, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the 2007 Dan Sandel and the Sandel Family Foundation for Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; and the 2016 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others.
In 2017 Landau received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and she was conferred the title of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Landau holds an Honorary Associate degree from the Open University of Israel (2019), Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (2020) and Honorary Doctorate from Bar Ilan University, Israel (2023).