Draft:Liat Yossifor

Liat Yossifor (born 1974) is an American abstract painter who was born and raised in Israel and moved to the United States as a teenager in 1989. Yossifor lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Education
Liat Yossifor received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996, and her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, in 2002.

Work
Liat Yossifor creates abstract paintings that are tactile and pictorial. Yossifor explores the possibilities of grayscale abstraction while eschewing narrative or figurative elements.

Solo Exhibitions

 * Small Seas, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA 2023
 * Life Against Itself, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL 2023
 * "The Gray Feather a Thrush Lost," Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House Berlin Fellow at 68 Projects, 2022
 * Communicating Vessels, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 2021
 * Letters Apart, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL 2021
 * No Second Chances in the Land of a Thousand Dances, Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2020
 * Liat Yossifor, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 2018
 * Life'', Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany 2016
 * A Body of Water, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL 2016
 * Liat Yossifor, Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY 2016
 * Pre-Verbal Painting, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO 2015
 * Expanding on an Expansive Subject, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 2015
 * Time Turning Paint, Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 2015
 * Eight Movements, Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY 2015
 * Thought Patterns, Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY 2012
 * The Tender Among Us, The Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA 2007
 * The Stand, Paramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico

Publications

 * Movements-Liat Yossifor; Stella Rollig (Author), Ed Schad (Author), Karen Lang (Author), Christopher Michno (Author and Editor), Carrie Paterson (Editor); Publisher: DoppelHouse Press, Los Angeles, CA (2016), Language: English, Hardcover: 87 pages, ISBN 978-0983254072
 * Liat Yossifor; Christopher Michno (Author), Glenn Harcourt (Author); Publisher: Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; (2018), Language: English, Hardcover: 36 pages, ISBN 978-0999487143

Collections

 * The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
 * Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
 * Creative Artist Agency (CAA), Los Angeles, CA
 * Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
 * Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
 * The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Residencies
Yossifor had residencies at The Ucross Foundation, Claremont, WY in 2008, the Deutsche Börse Residency Program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (2010), The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL (2019), the Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, MX (2020), and at The Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann Berlin Fellowship, Germany (2022)