Leor Grady is an Israeli born artist. He studied at SUNY Empire State College, New York, and the School of Visual Theater, Jerusalem. Grady works in a wide variety of media – from sculpture, video, and drawing, to traditional materials and techniques, such as olive oil, gold, and embroidery.

Grady’s artistic voice is inscribed with traces of a battle left behind by an invisible body that demands severance. This body is both literal – queer, Mizrahi, Yemenite, traditional – and symbolic – national, modern, western, and “artistic.” Grady’s figurative images are of this body; the body Israeli culture in...