Shiri Mordechay was born in Israel and raised in Nigeria, she received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from School of Visual Arts in New York. Solo exhibitions have occurred in San Francisco, Los Angeles Honor Fraser gallery, also New York , Italy and Ireland. In 2013, she was named in ’25 Artists to Watch & Collect’ by Artvoices Magazine.
Mordechay’s psychologically charged works unfold across a dreamlike state where the boundaries between the flesh are blurs. In her intricate watercolor and ink compositions, figures emerge as unnamable creatures: part-human, part-monster, often exaggerated in form and suspended in hazy landscapes. At times animal, at times female, male, and both, these beings resist categorization; they appear at once asexual and hyper-embodied, touching on desire, childhood and the grotesque. Mordechay blurs the line between fantasy and dread, suggesting the body as an unstable mirror to the unconscious—volatile and haunted. Through this language of distortion, she conjures a world where the psyche takes visible shape.
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