Deborah Sfez

Deborah Sfez is a multidisciplinary, internationally recognised artist, born in 1964, working in Cote-d’Ivoire and Israel. Her tools are Photography, moving image, filmed performance accompanied by her written texts and her original composed music and sound.
Her atypical path begins with her studies of English and French literature and language, then learning the trades of Fashion in Paris and Theatre Costumes in Tel Aviv. She uses all these different and various knowledges and skills in her artistic research and works.

In 2014 she is short listed in Beers Gallery for the Award of Contemporary emerging Artists in London; in the same year she also gets the award for best Portraiture in New York Professional Women Photographer. In 2017 her series of collages, she names “Clone”, is chosen to be exhibited at Hellerau, Dresden. Her video work, “A Journey to the Land of Memory” enters the archive of the Visual Center at the Memorial Museum “Yad Vashem” in Jerusalem.
In 2021 Sfez has a solo exhibition “The People of This Country”, at the Mucat Museum for Contemporary Art in Abidjan Cote-d’Ivoire, which include twenty-one Portraits of Ivorian people whom she asked to answer the question: “what is Homeland for you?”.
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2004 – 2006 Rakefet Levi School of Theatre Costume Design Tel Aviv, Israel
1987 1988 Esmod studies of Fashion Design Paris, France
1984 - 1987 BA in French and English Literature, Haifa University, Israel

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:

2023 Indie Film Festival, Florence

2023 group exhibition, Art Number 23 Gallery, Tokyo

2023 "The people of this Land", Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2023 Shorts Film Festival, semi finalist, Tokyo

2023 International Short Festival video installation, Paris

2023 CICA Museum, "Colors", Video Installation, South Korea