Orit Hofshi was born in Kibbutz Matzuva, located in Western Galilee in Israel and she continues to live and work in Herzliya, Israel. The dramatic birth and brief intense history of Israel, and her parents escaping the incorporation of their homeland of Czechoslovakia into Nazi Germany, have no doubt, influenced her haunting and powerful work. Hofshi is constantly preoccupied with the human condition at large.
Orit Hofshi first studied at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, Israel and continued her studies majoring in painting and printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania, USA in 1990. She received her MA in 2002 from University of Leeds, United Kingdom. She has been awarded the prestigious 2019 Israel Culture Ministry Award for Fine Arts. Orit Hofshi's work is in numerous public and private collections including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Kunstsammlung im Deutschen Bundestag, Berlin, Germany; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, California, USA; University of San Diego, Hoehn Family Print Collection, CA; China Printmaking Museum, Shenzen, China; The Open Museum Tefen, Tefen, Israel; and the Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel.