Aliza Olmert

Aliza Olmert
Catalog # 27
Courtesy of The Schwimmer Collection

About the Artist: Aliza Olmert is an Israeli artist, photographer, author and social worker. Aliza Olmert was born in a displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany. Her parents were Holocaust survivors from Łódź. She grew up in Ramat Gan and served as a topographer and platoon commander in the Israel Defense Forces.[She met her husband, Ehud Olmert, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she was studying social work. In 1985-1988, Olmert studied environmental design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. In Israel, Olmert has exhibited at the Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem, the Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan, the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv and the Tel Aviv Artists' House. Her work has also been exhibited in Japan, Uruguay, Italy, Britain, Poland, Argentina and New York. In March 2008, she was awarded the Steiger Prize in Germany.