Talia Chetrit is interested in the social dynamics of viewership, exploring how the presence of a camera affects the behavior of her subject, perhaps exposing latent conditions or creating new ones, and in turn how the experience of viewing her works can activate unconscious impulses or preconceptions. Bodies sometimes seem like objects in Chetrit’s work, and sometimes this dynamic is inverted. She often photographs her or others’ body parts touching or close to objects, recalling early twentieth-century modernist and surrealist photography, a realm in which male artists often photographed objects and women’s bodies as coequal subjects of formal exploration. Chetrit reauthors this relationship, both overdetermining and subverting it.

This summer Chetrit will be the subject of the solo exhibition Bunny presented by the LOEWE Foundation at Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid, on the occasion of PHotoEspaña 2026. Later in the fall, a group of Chetrit’s work will be included in the group exhibition GUT at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester. Chetrit has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; MAXXI Museum, Rome; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and 10 Corso Como, Milan, among others. Recent group exhibitions include MAMA.From the Virgin Mary to Merkel, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Mis(s)treated. Mehr als Deine Muse!, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen; Love, Maybe – Intimacy and Desire in Contemporary Art, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich; Transmissions: Selections from the Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles; and Friedl Kubelka Vom Gröller: Songs of Experience, MACRO, Rome and Phileas, Vienna. Chetrit’s work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; Fondazione Fiera, Milan; and FRAC Corsica, Corte, among others.