Luni / Ilana Portnoy is a visual artist whose work explores freedom, identity, and the invisible expectations placed upon us by society. Born in Israel in 1995 to a family of immigrants from Belarus who came to Israel after the Chernobyl disaster, she grew up between cultures, an experience that shaped her sensitivity to belonging and individuality.

Art became her way to understand the world and express what words could not. She earned a B.Des in Visual Communication from Shenkar College in 2020, where she created Luni genderless, naked figures living in nature, free from the roles and definitions society imposes.

Named after a childhood nickname from her mother, Luni reflects a longing for simplicity, and for the soul’s purest, most authentic state. Lunis stand exposed, free to feel whatever they wish without judgment, confronting the invisible frameworks that shape modern life.

Her work invites viewers to question these frameworks and to imagine a more liberated, truthful way of being.