Ori Gersht was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel and received his masters in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London. He is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London and will be the feature of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the fall of 2012.

Gersht has been exhibited and collected by a number of public institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Tate Modern, London, the Tate Britain, London, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles,  the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, the Jewish Museum, Berlin, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San  Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among others. Ori Gersht lives and works in London, England.