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Artist Bio

As a native of Israel, Dganit grew up in a Kibbutz, a cooperative community based on agriculture. After high school, Dganit volunteered for one year, helping to establish a new Kibbutz in the north of Israel, after which she was drafted into the Israeli Defense Force. She completed her military service with the rank of first lieutenant.

After the army, Dganit traveled with her husband to be, traversing Southeast Asia— to see the world, and experience new cultures, a physically difficult, but emotionally rewarding experience that would last two and a half years.

She moved with her husband to the US in 1992, to North Carolina. During her time there, Dganit was working as a teacher for low-income pre-school children in Chapel Hill, and later taught undergraduate Hebrew at Duke University, while practicing making art. After years of creating art as a self-taught artist, she became a full time student at UNC Chapel Hill.

In the summer of 2006, Dganit moved with her family to Philadelphia. She earned her BFA with honors from the University of The Arts in 2008, and in 2011 she graduated from the MFA program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. During her time at PAFA, she was very interested in the curatorial process and interned with the curator of contemporary art at the PAFA Museum.

After earning her MFA, Dganit decided to devote herself solely to making art in her studio as an independent artist, which she is currently doing.

In 2016, Dganit moved with her husband, yet again, to New Haven, Connecticut.

After a year of sharing her time between making art in her studio at the Erector Square, and working at Yale art Gallery in the program department, She is now back to solely making art in her studio.

Artist Statement

Memories, life experiences, intuitive processes, and curiosity drive my work.

Early in my life, informed by my upbringing in a Kibbutz, I observed the importance of land as not only a source of life but also as a source of struggle, separation, and death.

Now, with the current political and environmental climate, the subject of land continues to be essential to my work; it has, if anything, become even more important in recent years.

I pull from my personal and emotional experiences to create my work, trying to combine what is felt and tangible along with the intangible.

My process is like a journey of discovery: I start with just the paint – intuitively setting it down. The paint then inspires me to construct a “place”— a resemblance of a landscape, both actual and imagined, that aim to present an idea of land that is composed of multiple layers. These layers include the cycle of life and death, ancestry of the land, and a connection between society, history, and geology.

I focus not only on land’s physical “being” — the form, texture, and feel, along with the process by which it forms, moves, and erodes—but also land as a source of emotional and psychological mood.