About Yoav S. Liberman

Yoav S. Liberman is a studio furniture artist, educator and writer. His work combines the old and new, sometimes using found objects and discarded wood as a source and inspiration for the pieces that he builds.
Yoav received his architectural degree from the Israel Institute of Technology. From 2001 to 2003, he was an Artist-in-Residence at the Worcester Center for Crafts. In September 2003, Yoav joined Eliot House at Harvard University where he teaches woodworking and furniture design. In 2006 Yoav was invited to join the faculty of Shenkar College in Israel where he teaches Furniture Design and classes in wood and metal technologies.
His work has appeared in several juried exhibitions in the United States, most recently in the SOFA Chicago 2005 and in NEW/NOW: 10 Makers for the New Millennium Pathways and Process, at the Fuller Craft Museum. Yoav’s Etrog box was one of the finalists at the 2005 Niche Awards.
Yoav’s articles on furniture design and woodworking have been published in Israel’s leading design magazines. His work has also been featured in several nationwide publications, including the Harvard Gazette (2005, 2007), Woodwork Magazine (Oct 2007) and the Boston Globe (Nov 2007). Several of his pieces have appeared in a recent art books on innovative approaches to woodworking – 500 Wood Bowls, and 500 Tables (Lark Books 2004, 2009).
Yoav designs and builds his pieces at his Harvard studio in Cambridge MA. they can be found in galleries in Cambridge, L.A and Philadelphia as well as in private collections in the United States, Israel and England.