Dalya Luttwak was born in Northern Galilee, Israel.
Trained at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she currently lives and works in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA.
Since 2007, she has been working on a series of large-scale metal sculptures symbolically representing the root systems of various plants.
Her sculptures are site-specific or site-responsive; sometimes she works directly with the roots, which she digs from the earth; other times, she photographs and uses the roots as a reference for her work. She seeks to reveal the hidden beauty of the roots, exploring the relationship between what grows above the ground and the invisible parts beneath.
Her works reveal what nature prefers to hide; her desire is to uncover the roots, even and especially when they are hidden.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
Art and the Demands of Memory
The Only One, from his Immediate Family, Who Was Not Murdered in the Factory of Death – Auschwitz, was My Father
2023 Laghi Nabi, Campania, Italy
Nature Comes Back
2023 Palazzo Morgagni, Rome, Italy
Root in Rosso Puro
2022 The World Bank Art Program, The World Bank, Washington, DC
Roots of Winter Wheat: From 10 Days Old to Full Maturity
2019 Museo Arte Contemporanea Sotto Sale, Petrulia Soprana, Sicily, Italy
At the 5th Salgemma Sculpture Biennale
Woman in Search of Light
2019 Palazzo Gargiulo, SyArt Gallery, Sorrento, Italy
Ivy Edera
2019 Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento, Italy
Mangrove
2018 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
ORIGIN: Dalya Luttwak & Arrigo Musti
2018 Venice, Italy
At the 4th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale
Global Warning: First Tropical Mangrove in Venice
2018 American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
Finding a Path – Emilie Brzezinski and Dalya Luttwak: A Conversation
2018 Givaat Ha Shlosha, Israel
AlonSari
2017 I Pola Vineyard, Cremolino Piemonte, Italy
Grapevine Before Pruning
2017 Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo, MD
A Memory, Revisited
2016 Castello Lanza di Trabia, Sicily, Italy
Root of Sweet Potato
2015 Galleria Ca’ d’Oro, Miami, FL
Man = Upside Down Tree (Plato)
2015 Galleria Ca’ d’Oro, New York, NY
Roots: Nature’s Hidden Beauty
2014 Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA,
Dalya Luttwak: Germination of Gold
2014 Kreeger Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC,
Poison Ivy
2012 VisArts at Rockville, Rockville, MD,
Roots of Liriope
2012 Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC,
Sukkat Shalom/Tabernacle of Peace
2012 Triennale Museum, Milano, Italy,
Red Root
2011 Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC,
Two Sculptors
2011 Venice, Italy,
At the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale
…What If Roots Could Grow In The Waters of the Arsenale?…
2010 Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia,
Roots: the Hidden Half in Black and White
2008/9 American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.,
Hidden: A Sculpture Installation
Additional Solo Exhibitions
Corporate Gallery at Tysons Galleria, McLean, Virginia,
There Are No Black Flowers
Sculpture Court at Tysons Galleria, McLean, Virginia,
An American Dream
Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C.,
Dalya Luttwak
Jerusalem Theatre Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel,
Dalya Luttwak-Modern Jewelry
Plum Gallery, Kensington, Maryland,
Dalya Luttwak Jewelry
Aaron Faber Gallery, New York City, New York
Portfolio Exhibit
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 The Only One, from his Immediate Family, Who Was Not Murdered in the Factory of Death – Auschwitz, was My Father, Art and the Demands of Memory, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2022 Artina 2022: A Space in Place, Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group and Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
2022 What a Relief, small relief sculptures, The Phillips Collection, Phillips@THEARC, Washington, DC
2021 Past & Present, Oxon Hill Manor, Oxon Hill, MD
Yellow Roots Revealed
2021 Artina 2021 Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group and Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
Unearthing the Roots
2021 2021 Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Washington, DC
Still Life
2021 Objects from the Studio: A Sculptor’s Process, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Seedling
2019 Sculpture, etc., Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
2019 Sculpture NOW 2019, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD
2018 Compounds Not Required: 29, 47, 13, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
2017 Bird’s Eye View, Betty Mae Kramer Gallery, Silver Spring, MD
2016 Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
2015 2015 Summer Sculpture, Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
2015 Stars & Stripes: Zenith Salutes the Flag, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
2015 SELECT 2015, WPA’s 34th Annual Art Auction Exhibition & Gala, Artisphere, Rosslyn, VA
2014 11th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
2014 Sculpture NOW 2014, In Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Washington Sculptors Group, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2014 Made in Washington, Ramon Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC
2014 Transformations: from one thing to another, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2014 For Whom It Stands, TOO, Star-Spangled Banner Flag House and Museum, Baltimore, MD
2014 Sculpted: History Revealed, Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC
Five Tap Roots
2014 For Whom It Stands, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD
2014 Cherry Blast, Washington Project for the Arts, Blind Whino, Washington, DC
2013 EMULSION 2013: East City Art Regional Juried Exhibition
Yellow Bamboo Root
2013 Green Art: Trees, Leaves, and Roots, The Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space, Washington, DC
2013 40 for 40: Celebrating Four Decades of GRACE, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
2013 Ephemeral: Interpretations of the Cherry Blossom, Lorton, VA
Roots of Winter Wheat: From 10 Days Old to Full Maturity
2012 Sculpting outside the lines, Foggy Bottom, Washington D.C.
Alfalfa Root at 4.5 months old
2011 The New Naturalists, Herron Galleries, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
Clematidis Radix (Clematis)
2010 The Historical Society of Washington, Washington D.C.,
Porous Borders
2010 Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA,
Rare Earth
2010 Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia,
Gaps
2009 Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.,
Bilateral Engagement
2009 United States Botanic Garden, Washington, D.C.,
Flora: Growing Inspirations
2009 Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, Virginia,
Reform
2009 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
Festival Sculpture Walk
2007 Osuna Art, Bethesda, Maryland,
Washington Women in the Arts: A Selection
2007 American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.,
Architecture/Sculpture
Additional Group Exhibitions
Pyramid Atlantic Gallery, Silver Spring, Maryland,
Dangling
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico,
Hermandades Escultoricas, MEXICO-EUA
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California,
Scents of Purpose: Artists Interpret the Spice Box
Washington Square, Washington, D.C.,
Sculpture Invitational
A New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, California,
Dwelling
Spertus Museum, Chicago, Illinois,
Eternal Light
Washington, D.C.,
The Capitol Hill Sculpture Project
United States Botanic Garden, Washington, D.C.,
Flora
Washington Square, Washington, D.C.,
Sculpture Now ‘03
Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space, Washington, D.C.,
Artists’ Screens-Contemporary Perspectives
Spertus Museum, Chicago, Illinois,
Judging the Book by It’s Cover
A.B. Center for Contemporary Arts, Missouri,
Self-Portrait: Postures in Metal
Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan,
Functional Vase Project
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio,
Contemporary Judaica
B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C.,
Realm Between Realms, Histories Between History
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California,
L’Chaim, A Kiddish Cup Invitational
The William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, Atlanta, Georgia,
Masters of Ceremony
Montgomery College Art Gallery, Rockville, Maryland,
50th Anniversary Invitational
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California,
A Hanukah Menorah Invitational
Spertus Museum, Chicago, Illinois,
The Hanukkah Menorah
Target Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia,
Metalwork ‘93
Stadtisches Museum, Schwabisch Gmund, West Germany,
Ornament for Hand and Ear
Montgomery College Art Gallery, Rockville, Maryland,
Six Metalsmiths: Sculptures
Stadtisches Museum, Schwabisch Gmund, West Germany,
Amulet and Talisman
The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
Body Adornment
Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C.,
The Art of Giving
Artwear, New York City,
Discovery
Plum Gallery, Kensington, Maryland,
Metalwork ‘85
Awards and Commissions
2018 Givaat Ha Shlosha, Israel
AlonSari
2017 I Pola Vineyard, Cremolino Piemonte, Italy
Grapevine Before Pruning
2017 CODAMagazine, Transformative Walls III
Root of Sweet Potato
2016 James Madison University, Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, Harrisonburg, VA
Roots of Mangrove
2016 Castello Lanza di Trabia, Sicily, Italy
Root of Sweet Potato
2014 Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Poison Ivy
2012 Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC,
Grant from DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Sukkat Shalom/Tabernacle of Peace
2010 James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia,
Diversity Artist-in-Residence
1998 Creative Craft Council, Washington, D.C., First Prize-Metal,
The Craft Collection
1998 New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, Felissimo Design Award,
Work & Leisure Separator Screen
1997 Washington Cancer Institute, Washington, D.C., Commissioned Design,
Wellness Pin
Art Organizations
Washington Sculpture Group, Advisory Board
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Advisory Board – Arts Advisory Committee
