Inbal Abergil is a New York-based documentary artist and educator, originally from Jerusalem and of North African descent. Her practice focuses on the aftermath of war and the human cost of conflict.
Abergil was an alternate for the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship (2020), the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant (2018), a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019) and the 2018 Documentary Essay Prize in Photography, CDS at Duke University. Her series “Nothing Left Here But The Hurt” has been nominated for the prestigious Prix Pictet Photography Prize (2012). She was selected as a 2013 FlaxArt International Artist in Residence, Northern Ireland, and was an artist in residence at Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York (2015). Most recently, she was an artist in residence at The Sirius Arts Center, Ireland (2023).
Her work has been exhibited internationally in museum and gallery exhibitions. She has had solo shows at Baxter St at Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana; the Camera Club of New York; Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NYC; Tova Osman Gallery, Tel-Aviv; and Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Abergil has also been shown at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; Center for Contemporary Art Derry -Londonderry, Northern Ireland; Meneer de Wit Gallery, Amsterdam; Museum of Photography, Tel-Hay, Israel; Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel; Jeonju Photo Festival, South Korea, Shulamit Gallery Venice, California, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC, Aperture Gallery, NYC, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, NYC, and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC. Most recently, she had a solo exhibition at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, Colorado.
Abergil’s work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Israel Museum; Fisher Landau Center for Art; the American University Art Museum; and Duke University Archive of Documentary Arts, NC. Her photographs have appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Times, Lens Culture, Musée Magazine, Photograph Magazine, Spot Magazine, PDN, BuzzFeed, and Hyperallergic. Her first monograph, N.O.K-Next of Kin, came out with Daylight Publishing.
Abergil received her M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Columbia University and her B.F.A. with honors from the Midrasha School of Art, Israel. In addition to her studio practice, Abergil is an Associate Professor of Photography at Pace University in New York City.