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Sigalit Landau
1997
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Sigalit Landau
b. 1969
Sigalit Landau is one of Israel’s most prominent artists. Only two years after her graduation from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, she was selected to exhibit at the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1997. That same year, her works were shown at Documenta X in Kassel. In 1999, Landau won the OPEN 2000 Competition in London. She lives in Tel Aviv.
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