Inbal Abergil is a documentary artist and educator based in New York. She is originally from Jerusalem. Her work looks at the aftermath of war and the human cost of conflict. She has an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and is an Associate Professor of Photography at Pace University in New York City.
She received the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2018. She was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019) and an alternate for the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship (2020). Her series Nothing Left Here But The Hurt was nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2012. Her first monograph, N.O.K-Next of Kin, was published by Daylight. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Israel Museum.
Her book The Presence of Absence was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2025. It grew from a decade of work with American Gold Star Families, whose loved ones were killed in action. It brings together their stories, still lifes of personal belongings and portraits of Casualty Notification Officers, who bring the news of a death to families. The book also includes a four-channel video with mothers who lost their sons.
