Shira
Mushkin

Shira Mushkin is an American Israeli multidisciplinary artist, and curator based in Israel. Working primarily in photography, as well as mixed media, installation, and video, her art practice seeks to capture the beauty and meaning found in everyday objects and scenes at home and on her travels in the world, while exploring ideas about identity, gender, and memory. Mushkin often constructs fragments from true stories and intuitively creates fictional narratives. She examines the way in which a mundane moment is elevated and recorded; prodding the memory of a past occurrence, as well as looking at the world through her perspective of life as an ephemeral existence, leading her to preserve the memories of daily experiences. She is a graduate (1986) of Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv, with a B.Ed in Art (2004) from Kaye Academic College of Education, and earned a M.A. in Art History and Visual Culture-Curating (2011) from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer Sheva. She has exhibited in galleries, and art and photography festivals in Israel and abroad and is currently exhibiting at the 6th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography at FotoNostrum in Barcelona, Spain.