Born in 1969 in Mexico City, Ilán Lieberman studied graphic design at the WIZO-Tzarfat School of Applied Arts in Tel-Aviv, Israel and lithography at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Mexico and abroad and has participated in many group shows including Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art at the International Center of Photography in New York; Viva la Muerte at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna and the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Gran Canaria, Spain; Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo at la Colección Jumex in Mexico City; América Tropical at the Mexican Institue in Paris; the Rufino Tamayo Biennial at the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City; and Tierra, identidades dispersas at MUCA UNAM also in Mexico City. His latest project Niño Perdido (Lost Child) opened at Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico; travelled to El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas and The Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam; and was featured at Art Basel Miami Beach by Steve Turner Contemporary in December of 2009. He had his first solo exhibition with the gallery in January of 2010. In his work, he employs different strategies to convey graphic and photographic images and the relationship between the representation and its source image.