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Lilia Chak graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry, 1988, Russia (MA).
In 1985–1986, she was awarded the first prize for "The best research work on art” by Russian Ministry of Culture. In 1989, she participated in the show of "Young artists of St. Petersburg".
Since 1990, Lilia Chak lives in Jerusalem.
In 1992–2002, she took part in a number of exhibitions in Israel. Among them, the exhibition of design in Jerusalem Palace of Nations, the art exhibition in Globes Golan Studios, the art exhibition in Hanita Contemporary Art Museum.
In 2002 she founded her design studio, GalaStudio for art projects, graphic design, industrial design and interior design (together with Galina Bleikh).
Lilia Chak is an author of a number publications on art and design:
Interior del Mobile in Milan, Vesti magazine (Israel), 2006;
Design of a Beauty Salon, Everything for the home magazine (New York, USA), 2006.
Since 2007, Lilia Chak experiments with new media technologies: photography (Israeli portrait group exhibition, Erlich gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel), digital graphics (Identity document group exhibition, Eyn Hod Central gallery, Israel; Art Force-1 group exhibition, Israel Museum for digital art, Holon, Israel), video (Tarbut.ru virtual exhibition, Rosenfeld gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel).
She has created interactive media installation To each olive – the name, including video, photographs and objects (2008); series of photographs Rococo (2009); video triptych Dead Sea – Dirt, Mirror and Crane (Artura gallery, Tel Aviv, 2009).
In 2009, Lilia Chak has her solo exhibition in Ephrat gallery, Tel Aviv, (Eternity of Moments – the art project on new visual concept of the urban environment).
In 2009, she was awarded the first prize at the art competition (among 18,000 entries), organized by Cellcom company.
Lilia Chak and Galina Bleikh introduced into international lexicon a new term – Ferror (Female Terror) – a phenomenon of XXI century, acts of terrorism perpetrated by women. The term Ferror was first performed at the sensational cancelled exhibition by Lilia Chak and Galina Bleikh in Tel Aviv Journalists Center Beit Sokolov (2009).
Video installation Ferror by Lilia Chak examines the life of city in different contexts, identifying and interpreting its hidden meanings.
Lilia is a member of the UNESCO Association of Artists (Tel Aviv branch).
Her works belong to private collections in USA, Britain, Israel and Russia.

 


 

 

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