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 Photoville, NYC, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NYC, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, and Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Abergil has also shown at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Center for Contemporary Art Derry -Londonderry, Noerthern Ireland, Meneer de Wit Gallery, Amsterdam, Museum of Photography, Tel-Hay, Israel, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramt Gan, Israel, Jeonju Photo Festival, South Korea, Shulamit Gallery Venice, California, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC, Aperture Gallery, NYC. Most recently, her work is included in the “Capture your Freedom” exhibition at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, NYC and “In the Presence of Absence”, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York City.
Abergil’s work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Israel Museum, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Haaretz and The American University Art Museum. 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.