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Avital Oehler (b. Haifa, Israel) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
A photographer and filmmaker, Oehler earned her Masters’ degree in Forensic Psychology. Oehler has exhibited photographs nationally and her short films have won awards and screened both domestically and internationally. She can currently be found somewhere along the Los Angeles River, or in one of the many Open Spaces surrounding the LA metropolitan area.
Reach out: avitaloehler[at]icloud.com
A photographer and filmmaker, Oehler earned her Masters’ degree in Forensic Psychology. Oehler has exhibited photographs nationally and her short films have won awards and screened both domestically and internationally. She can currently be found somewhere along the Los Angeles River, or in one of the many Open Spaces surrounding the LA metropolitan area.
Reach out: avitaloehler[at]icloud.com
Education
MS, Psychology in Forensics, Cal State University, Los Angeles
BA, Psychology, Minor, Criminal Justice, Cal State University, Los Angeles
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Collective Memory, LA County Arts & Culture, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Rule 42: Stretched Language, Bonita Museum, San Diego, CA
2021 Brand 49 Works on Paper, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
2020 Homeless in LA, Pierce College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Offal, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Remembrance, Autry Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Summer Exhibition, Miller Duncan Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Conjured Futures, CENTER, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Photography as Social Conscience, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Selinsgrove, PA
2017 UnPresidented: The Inauguration Show, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Dynamic Landscape, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Transformation, Pennsylvania Center for Photography, Doylestown, PA
2016 Water, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2012 Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 24/7 photo essay, LA Music Center, Los Angeles, CA
Awards
2021 Elysian Valley Arts, Spring Show, Grand Prize Winner
2021 The Royal Photographic Society, IPE 163, Shortlisted
2017 Fine Art Photography Awards, London, UK, Nominee
2016 My Hero International Film Festival, Winner
2016 Center for Fine Art Photography, Director's Honorable Mention
Selected Film Screenings
2019 Symposium, FVPS, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Video Art + Film Festival, ESMoA, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Experimental Shorts, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2018 Seeing in Tongues, FVPS, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Meraki Film Festival, Madrid, Spain
2018 Classical Arts Film Festival, Napa, CA
2017 American Documentary Film Festival, Palm Spring, CA
2016 Greenwich Village Film Festival, New York, NY
Selected Publications
2018 Broad Street, Issue 3.1, Summer 2018
2018 F-Stop Magazine, Issue 88 and Issue 89,
2017 Light Journal, 04 | Departure, Fall Issue
2017 The Adirondack Review, Summer Issue
2017 Boxcar Poetry Review, Issue 38
2016 Buffalo Almanack, Issue 13
2016 Femme Fotale, Vol. III, Analog
2015 lensculture, Editors' Pick