Liat Yossifor

Liat Yossifor (born 1974) is an Israeli and American abstract painter. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Life and education Liat Yossifor was born in 1974, in Tel Aviv, Israel. She relocated to the United States in 1989, where she pursued a career in art.

She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2002 from the University of California, Irvine.

Yossifor was a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation resident in Captiva Island, Florida, in 2020, and was a Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House Berlin Fellow in 2022.

Her artwork is part of the collections at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Artistic style and themes Yossifor is a painter who paints textural monochromatic abstractions. Her work includes a physical engagement with the medium, resulting in layered surfaces that have movement and depth.

Yossifor's paintings are characterized by a process that emphasizes the physicality of creation. She often works within self-imposed time constraints, completing pieces rapidly to maintain the immediacy and vitality of her gestures. Her technique involves the application of thick layers of oil paint, that she manipulates, which results in paintings that are sculptural and painterly, and a nod to figurative work.