Elisheva Gavra employs interdisciplinary research to investigate vision and its role in the politics of belief and knowledge, using performance, photography and installation. 

Her work has been exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York, The Broad Art Center in Los Angeles, the Wallach Art Gallery in New York, Jenkins Johnson Projects in Brooklyn and elsewhere. Her performances have been presented at the New York Public Library, the Frankel Center at the University of Michigan, the Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York and the 14 street Y in New York. She received an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, was a participant of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York and is currently doing her research at the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, NYPL.

elishevagavra@gmail.com