Inbar Hagai
Inbar Hagai
Inbar Hagai is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and moving-image programmer. Her transdisciplinary projects merge video, XR, kinetic sculpture, installation, and experimental documentary filmmaking to reflect on societal norms and taboos surrounding human-machine-nonhuman animal cohabitation and systems of domination.
Hagai received her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her films and media installations have been exhibited internationally at venues including Silver Eye, Miller ICA Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Center for Digital Art Holon, and Manifesta 11, as well as at film and media festivals such as PrintScreen, DocAviv, Antimatter, and On Art Warsaw. She has received numerous academic and institutional awards, production grants, and fellowships, with her work featured in both print and digital publications.
Most recently, she received a New Work Grant from the Prospect Art Organization and was selected for residencies at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.
Hagai was a faculty member in the Design and Media program at Penn State University. In her work in public moving-image programming, she co-initiated the screening series Touchstone Cinema in Pittsburgh and serves on the board of Pittsburgh Sound + Image, a nonprofit committed to fostering accessible and inclusive film culture.
