portraits of prisoners of all ages
Michal Chelbin's work has been widely shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Her critically acclaimed Monograph "Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes and other Traveling Troupes" was published by Aperture in 2008 and was awarded PDNâ??s Photo Annual Book Award in 2009. Her next monograph entitled "The Black Eye" was published in June 2010 by Twin Palms Publishers, with solo exhibitions in October 2010 at Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York and M+B gallery in LA. Works by Michal Chelbin are held in several private and public collections amongst them the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Getty Museum (LA), SF MOMA, The Jewish Museum New York, LACMA Los Angeles, Portland Art Museum and Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
