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


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