Orit Hasson Walder is a multidisciplinary artist whose works engage with autobiography, identity and gender, and narrative modes. Using her family’s charged history originating in Arabic countries and culture, Hasson Walder’s work raises issues of memory and trauma. Orit specializes in socially-engaged contemporary art and has developed numerous community-based art projects, including the collaborative Archive of Arab Palestinian Art and Culture.

In her installations, paintings, and drawings, Hasson Walder researches the links between sight, medium, and language limitations to dissociative and other psychological states. In her artworks are visible transitions between states of consciousness, with fluid borders between photography and painting.

Orit Hasson Walder is a lecturer in the Faculty of the Arts at the Midrasha College of Art, Beit Berl, and at the Kibbutzim College of Education. She has previously worked as an art critic, and is currently the artistic consultant for the Lobby Gallery, Tel Aviv, and for independent projects. Hasson Walder has curated numerous exhibitions, and until recently was the director and chief curator of the Ramat Eliyahu Art Workshop, Rishon Lezion.