About The Artist Leemour Pelli is an artist living and working in New York City. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (B.F.A., painting, 1994), Hunter College (Master of Arts degree in Art History, 1989), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (B.A. in English Literature). While pursuing these degrees, she also studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, and at Cornell University. In January of 2008 the artist will have a solo exhibition at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York. Her other recent solo exhibitions include two solo exhibitions at the Annina Nosei Gallery in 2004 and 2005, and in September of 2003 she had a solo exhibition at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The artist’s recent exhibitions also include the Kinz, Tillou and Feigen Gallery, and the Paul Rodgers Gallery in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Connecticut, PS1 Institute of Contemporary Art in Long Island City, Artcore Gallery in Toronto, and Spaces Contemporary Art Center in Ohio. Her work has been reviewed in Art News, The New York Times, New York Arts Magazine, and The Globe and Mail, among other publications.