Inbal Abergil

Inbal Abergil is an artist and educator of North African descent. Her research focuses on the aftermath of war and the human cost of conflict, using still and moving images along with testimony to examine loss, grief, and healing. Inbal was chosen as an alter for the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship (2020). She is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant (2018), a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), and the 2018 Documentary Essay Prize in Photography, CDS at Duke University. Her series “Nothing Left Here But The Hurt” has been nominated for the prestigious Prix Pictet Photography Prize (2012). She was selected as a 2013 FlaxArt International Artist in Residence, Northern Ireland, and an artist at Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York (2015). Last summer, she was an artist in residence at the Sirius Arts Center in Cobh, Ireland Her work has been exhibited internationally in museum and gallery exhibitions. She has had solo shows at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NYC, and Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana. Abergil has also been shown at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Center for Contemporary Art Derry -Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Meneer de Wit Gallery, Amsterdam, Museum of Photography, Tel-Hay, Israel, Jeonju Photo Festival, South Korea, Shulamit Gallery Venice, California, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC, Aperture Gallery, NYC, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, NYC, and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC. Most recently, she had a solo exhibition at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, Colorado. Abergil’s work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Fisher Landau Center for Art, and The American University Art Museum. Her photographs have appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Times, Lens Culture, Musée Magazine, Photograph Magazine, PDN, BuzzFeed, and Hyperallergic. Her first monograph, N.O.K-Next of Kin, came out with Daylight Publishing in 2017. Abergil received her M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Columbia University. In addition to her studio practice, Abergil is an Associate Professor of Art at Pace University in New York City.