Michal Chelbin

Michal Chelbin (; born 1974) is an Israeli photographer. Her work is held in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; Metropolitan Museum, New York; LACMA; Getty Center, LA; and the Jewish Museum, New York.

Career

Chelbin studied photography at WIZO academy of design and education in Haifa from 1997 to 2001.

In 2005 she had a solo exhibition, The Chapels, at Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel.

In 2007 Chelbin first exhibited her project Strangely Familiar at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland. The project focused on performers from small towns in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, England, and Israel, In the same year, Chelbin exhibited a solo exhibition under the same name at Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The Black Eye (2010) Chelbin continues Chelbin's interest in athletics as a photography subject. In Sailboats and Swans (2012) she made portraits inside prison facilities in Russia and Ukraine. With How to Dance The Waltz (2021) she focused on military boarding schools, matador training academies, and teenagers in Ukraine preparing for their proms.

Chelbin has participated in group shows in The Getty Center, Los Angeles, The Jewish Museum, New York,

She collaborated with fashion brand Dior Homme in 2016. The New Yorker, GQ, and the Financial Times.

Chelbin cites Vermeer, Caravaggio, Velázquez, Diane Arbus, and August Sander as some of her biggest influences. Sailboats and Swans (Twin Palms, 2012) How to Dance the Waltz (Damiani, 2021)

Solo exhibitions

2005 The Chapels, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya

Collections Chelbin's work is held in the following permanent collections: Metropolitan Museum, New York LACMA, LA Portland Museum of Art San Francisco Moma The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris Getty Center, LA Jewish Museum, New York Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel