Gabriella Willenz is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, video, and installation to engage the tension between the construction of reality, shaped by ideology, and its representation as natural and neutral. She critically interrogates how knowledge is constructed, and the mechanisms that affect our understanding of the world, particularly in relation to systems of power.
Willenz holds an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley (2019), and a BA from the Marc Rich Honors Program in the Humanities and the Arts, Tel Aviv University (2015, Dean’s honors). She has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues including Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives; The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Berkeley; the Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Bar’Am; Heaven Gallery, Chicago; Root Division, San Fransisco; and Nuzha Gallery, Jaffa, among others. She is a member of the Joint Jewish-Arab Gallery, Kibbutz Cabri. She was artist-in-residence at The Lincoln Center Theater, NYC; Ox-Bow School of Art, Michigan; Atelier Shemi, Kibbutz Cabri; Vermont Studio Center and the Art and Research Center at UC Berkeley. She has received grants from Asylum Arts; The Center for Arts and Religion at GTU, Berkeley; the American Jewish University, LA; Jewish Arts Collaborative, Boston; Tel Aviv’s Art Department, and most recently Mifal HaPais. You can find more about her work on her website: gabriellawillenz.com