Yishay Garbasz
Israeli-born interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yishay Garbasz (born 1970, Israel)[1] is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of photography, performance and installation.[2] Her main field of interest is trauma and the inheritance of post-traumatic memory.[3] She also works on issues of identity and the invisibility of transgender women.[4][5]
She studied photography with Stephen Shore at Bard College between 2000 and 2004.[6][7]
Garbasz received the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship in 2004/2005.[8] She has lived in Berlin since 2005, and has also lived in Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Israel, The United States and England.[9]
Despite having suffered epoxy poisoning in 2014, from which she developed occupational asthma and chronic lung problems, she is also Germany's first trans woman triathlete.[10] Garbasz has learned to write at the age of 25 at Landmark College.[11] She is openly lesbian.[12][13]