Judith Margolis is an Israel-based American artist, book designer, and writer whose work integrates text with painting, drawing, digital photography and collage (found images) to examine the tension between destiny and random chance.

Margolis studied painting, drawing and printmaking at Cooper Union (NYC) and Lone Mountain College (SF, CA), and holds a Masters of Fine Art in painting, drawing, and animation/film graphics from the University of Southern California.

Her paintings and artist’s books have been exhibited and published internationally, and have been acquired by Yale University, New York Public Library, University of Washington, UC Berkeley, University of Virginia, UCLA, Vassar College, Jaffee Center for Book Arts, The Skirball Museum, the Berman Bloch Foundation Collection and many other public and private collections.

Feminism and participation in counter culture, peace and women’s rights activism is crucial to her creative process. She is the art editor of Nashim, Journal of Jewish Woman’s Studies and Gender Issues, (U. of Indiana Press), was featured in Creating Art, Promoting Change: Works by Jewish Women Activists, an exhibition and publication from Brandeis University (2008); the Women Artists Datebook (Syracuse Cultural Workers(2003); and most recently, is a participant in Women of the Book an International Women’s Torah Midrash Project. Book projects in progress include Bearing Witness: Amulet Book Saves Life! a wearable book to be published by Katmandu Productions, a subsidiary of Bright Idea Books; and Crazy Things on Lonely Occasions [working title] an illustrated book about surviving widowhood.

Judith Margolis was an artist-in-resident at the 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA (2008, 2009), and visiting scholar for Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles (2008).