Gilah Hirsch

Gilah Yelin Hirsch, (BA UC Berkeley, MFA UCLA), is a painter, writer, theorist, photographer, videographer, filmmaker, lecturer and Professor of Art at California State University, Dominguez Hills (Los Angeles). She works in a disciplinary manner including art, design, anthropology, architecture, theology, philosophy, psychology, psychoneuroimmunology and world culture.

In internationally exhibiting artist since 1968, Hirsch's paintings have been acquired by major public and private collections, including the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Alexander Braun Collection, Budapest; the Bank of America National Banks, USA; University of California Medical Arts Collection, Los Angeles, CA, and have appeared on covers and within dozens of journals, magazines and books, along with articles and book chapters about her life and work. Hirsch's own articles and theoretical papers have been published in scholarly journals internationally including Women's Studies: and Interdisciplinary Journal; Artweek; Journal of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Collections of Foreign Studies on Shamanism, Dalian Nationalities University, China; and Hirsch's film Cosmography: The Writing of the Universe, an...

BA University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
MFA Pictorial Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions: 2002 - 2012

Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA (2011, 2010, 2009)
Vincent Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Symbol Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
Piano Nobile Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Artoteka Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Soviart Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
Limes Galeria, Kamarno, Slovakia
Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Surface, Color, Light, Lois Neiter Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions: 2002 - 2013

Tapping into the Third Realm, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
Inner Journeys, Outer Visions, Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

40/40 - A Historic Retrospective, Celebrating 40 Years of Art at the USC Hillel Gallery, USC Hillel, Los Angeles, CA (continuing from 2012)

Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004)

Pacific Standard Time, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA

40/40 - A Historic Retrospective, Celebrating 40 Years of Art at the USC Hillel Gallery, USC Hillel, Los Angeles, CA

Jüdische Frauen in der Bildenden Kunst (Jewish women in the Visual Arts), Inselgalerie, Berlin, Germany.

The World In Their Eye, California State University Dominguez Hills,...