Elana Hagler

Elana Hagler is a representational painter and coin/medal designer living in the Los Angeles area. She was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and immigrated to the United States at the age of five. She received her Bachelor of Arts in both Studio Art and Psychology from Brandeis University, Boston, and continued her studies for two years at the Master Class of the Jerusalem Studio School and in Umbria, Italy. She then received her Master of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Elana has won multiple prizes in painting and drawing and has exhibited her work across the United States and internationally. She has taught fine art at Swarthmore College, the Delaware College of Art and Design, Cornell College, and was an Associate Professor of Art at Alabama State University before moving back home with her family to California. She paints and draws in her home studio in Marina del Rey and designs coins and medals for the United States Mint as part of their Artistic Infusion Program.

BA Brandeis University
MFA The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Master Class, Jerusalem Studio School
International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, Umbria, Italy