About

b. 1981 in Tel-Aviv
Living and working in London

EDUCATION
2015 – 2019 PhD - Practice-Led, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2013 – 2015 MFA - Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London Fine art media (Distinction)
2004­ – 2009 B. Arch - Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem Department of Architecture
2007 Student exchange program, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2024 Subverse/ive Bodies - Contract no. 2, curated by Dyana Gravina, Hypha studios, London
2022 Here to Stay, permanent public sculpture in Portland (UK), commissioned by b-side Multimedia Art Festival (UK), supported by Diversity Art Forum (UK).
2019 MOTHERCHILD Machine no. 7, Commissioned by Procreate Project, King’s College, London, UK.
2018 Portland Stone Rehabilitation Centre, commissioned by b-side Multimedia Art, Portland, UK.
2017 Birth and Death, Hå Gamle prestegard gallery, Norway.
2017 Dead End, commissioned by Stations of the Cross, Holy Congregational church, Washington D.C, USA.
2016 The 13th, St. Cyprian’s Church, production of MTArt agency London, UK.
2016 Mother and Child in a Window, commissioned by Jewish Book Week, King’s Place, London, UK.
2016 Crude Ashes, commissioned by Stations of the Cross, Temple Church, London, UK.
2015 We Kissed and Then We Died, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2012 Florentinit, Ha’Hanut Gallery, Tel­-Aviv, Israel

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Acts of Creation, curated by Hettie Judah, Hayward gallery touring, UK
2024 Photography Is___, curated by Katie Murray and Joshua Lutz, Maass Gallery, NY
2023 Naissance & Re-Naissance, curated by Hettie Judah, Unit Gallery, London
2022 Eye of the Collector Art fair, London
2021 ADobradiça, contemporary meetings of the Arts in Mação, Portugal
2021 Studio of Her Own, Jerusalem 
2021 The Man in the Brown Suit, Artspace, Tel Aviv
2020 Home Alone Together, Image Journal, USA
2020 Her Space, exhibition supported by Outset, London, UK
2019 Materescence, Richard Saltoun Gallery London, UK
2019 The M Word, One Paved Road gallery, Richmond, UK
2018 Mademoiselle, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Occitanie à Sète, France
2018 Messenger 1, Christie’s Education, London, U
2018 You Can Do It and You Will Do It, Academy Now, Mambo museum, Bologna, Italy
2017 Pinzeta 5, Red House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 Nasty Women: Architecture, Anise Gallery, London, UK
2017 The Intercontinental, Roaming ROOM Gallery, London, UK
2016 Art Below, the Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2016 OFF Course Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Academy Now, Brussels, Belgium
2015 MEVannucci Gallery, MEVannucci + Academy Now, Italy
2015 Sacrifice, Jewish Museum, London, UK
2014 Slade Interim Show, London, UK
2014 Latitude Film Festival, UK
2014 Sexsism, Samia Gallery, London UK
2013 Fresh Paint - contemporary art fair, video greenhous, Tel-Aviv, Israel

CURATORIAL
2023 Inter-Active-Traces, Seventeen Gallery, London.

SPECIAL PROJECTS
2023 Single Mum Artist Manifesto group.

PRIZES AND AWARDS
2021 a-n (Artist Information), Time and Space Award, UK.
2020 Freelands Foundation Award, UK.
2019 Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, Judges Commended, Piano Nobile Kings Place, London
2017 5 shortlisted winners, selected by Academy Now for 2017, Italy    
2017 Residency - Hå gamle prestegard, Norway
2017 Polluted Beauty - The Dean’s Strategic Fund Award, UCL, London, UK
2017 Polluted Beauty - UCL’s Friends Trust, award, London, UK
2016 First prize for Arts & Humanities, UCL Doctoral School Research Poster, UK    
2013 The Slade Graduate Fine Art Media Overseas Scholarships award, UK

RESEARCH (ACADEMIC) OUTPUT
2024 Co-leading with Helen Knowles Birth Rites Collection Summer School, University of Kent
2022 Birth Rites Collection at University of Kent, guest lecturer.
2021 Wesley Theological Centre, Washington DC. USA.
2021 Bar Ilan University, Jewish Art department, artist talk, Ramat Gan, Israel
2021 Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association, “Motherhood, Art and Power” online lecture series. 
2021 Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion, guest lecturer , Washington DC, USA.
2021 American University, guest lecturer, Washington DC, USA.
2020 Katedra, Eretz Israel Museum, online lecture.
2020 Home Alone Together, panel discussion: Dr Aaron Rosen, Billie Mandle, Leni Dothan, Janna Ireland.   
2020 Her Space, panel discussion with Prof. Susan Collins Leni Dothan, Charlotte Leseberg Smith, Sara Berman, moderated by Keren David (In association with Outset and the Jewish Chronicle), London UK.
2020 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, guest lecturer.  
2019 Maternal Sacrifice in Jewish Culture, conference, Cermom- Inalco institute, Paris. 
2019 Making Art in Times of Crisis, b-side, Leni Dothan, Michael Pinsky and Sara Hudston in conversation, Portland, UK.
2019 Feminism and the Bible, symposium, Birkbeck, London.
2019 Fast Forward Women in Photography, symposium UAL research hosted at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London. 
2018 Maternal Attitude, symposium, South Wales University, Cardiff, UK. 
2017 Woman in the picture, artist talk, Christie’s Education, London. 
2016 Jewish Book Week, panel discussion: Prof Ben Quash , Dr Aaron Rosen, Leni Dothan King’s Place, London, UK.
2014 Graphic Novel and Comics Symposium, UCl Dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, London. 

PRESS | ARTICLES | BOOKS
2019 Image Journal, Motherhood - A Visual Contract, photo essay by Leni Dothan, 102 issue, Nov. 2019, USA, p. 25-33.  
2019 Elephant Magazine, Are We Secretly Disgusted by Female Uber Fertility? Nov. 2019, UK.
2019 Monopol Magazin fur kunst and Leben, The Birth of a Mother, Nov. 2019, Germany.
2019 Brushes with Faith - Reflections and Conversations on Contemporary Art, Aaron Rosen, Cascade Books, Eugen, Oregon, 2019, p. 76-80.
2018 Interview by Marine Tanguy, Visualizing Pollution, Sciart Magazine, December, online.
2017 Stavanger Aftenblad, Trond Borgen, A labyrinthine tragedy, 19.10.2017, Norway.
2017 Tenoua, Noemie Benchimol, N ̊ 168 magazine, June 2017, Paris.
2017 Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception Volume 14 - Jesus, De Gruyter, Berlin | Boston.
2016 Saloona, Vered Fishbein, 26.10.2016, Israel.
2015 The Guardian, Aaron Rosen, The holy-book bomb: is this the most offensive artwork ever?, 23.10.2015, UK.
2012 Gallery-Ha'aretz (cover) Daniel Rauchwerger, Italy's Florentine style comes to life in a south Tel Aviv art studio, Apr.04, 2012, Tel Aviv.
2010 Ma'hol, Leni Dothan, Dürer's Red Book, essay, Magazine no. 2, Tel-Aviv, Israel.  
2009 Leni Dothan, Temple Mount Intermediate Station, Architecture | Art | History Book, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel.