Esther Shalev-Gerz (née Gilinksy) was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1948. Her family moved to Jerusalem in 1957, where she graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Since 1984, she shares her time between Paris and Cortes Island, BC. Internationally recognized for her significant contributions in the field of public art, photography and video, Shalev-Gerz investigates questions of memory, history, trauma, cultural identity and ethics in the contemporary world through her practice. Working in multiple media, from photographs and video installations to large-scale public commissions that merge architecture with landscape design, Shalev-Gerz’s monuments, installations and public sculptures are developed through active dialogue and consultation with people whose participation provides an emphasis on their individual and collective memories, accounts, opinions and experiences. In 2010 and 2012, two major retrospective exhibitions respectively displayed ten and fifteen of her installations, first in Jeu de Paume, Paris then in Musée des Beaux Arts de Lausanne. Space Between Time, her solo exhibition at Wasserman Projects, Detroit presented nine of her installations between April and July 2016. In 2017, a survey exhibition of her work was presented at the Serlachius Museum, Mantta, Finland. She has exhibited internationally in, amongst other places, San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, London, Stockholm, Vancouver, Geneva, Guangzhou and New York. From the beginning of her career with landmark monuments such as Oil on Stone (1983) and The Monument Against Fascism (1986), Shalev-Gerz has designed and realized permanent installations in public space in Hamburg, Israel, Stockholm, Wanas, Geneva, Glasgow and now Vancouver. Her work has been represented in over twenty-five monographs. For more information about the artist, visit www.shalev-gerz.net