Tzirel Kaminetzky works across photography and painting, often transforming printed photographs through layered oil, glazing, and surface interventions. Her practice investigates memory, image permanence, and the instability of visual records.

The work begins with personal photographs of ordinary domestic scenes whose emotional importance exceeds their visible content. By painting over, obscuring, and intensifying parts of those photographs, she returns sustained attention to moments that photography preserved but separated her from. The resulting works examine the gap between what an image shows and what it holds privately: memory, embarrassment, attachment, frustration, and forms of domestic experience that resist idealization. Painting both protects and exposes these images, creating surfaces that unfold slowly and remain suspended between document, recollection, and revision.

She holds an MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA in Fine Arts and Photography from Parsons School of Design, with additional studies in poetry at Columbia University. She has shown at Williams Center Gallery, The New Yorker Passport to the Arts Auction, Tomato Mouse, among others. Prior to her studio practice, she worked as a photo editor and received multiple honors from the National Press Photographers Association. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.