Shani Wald is a painter, born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and a recent graduate of Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, Israel. During her degree, Wald also studied at The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, "New Academy of Fine Arts" in Rome.

Her practice, drawn to the inhabitation of the body, working primarily in oil paint on raw plywood, involves working closely with the tree that became the plywood, drawn to the way the panel, in its manufactured delicacy, retains traces of its former body. She allows the wood to swallow the paint, staining the surface with irreversible marks. Through this tactile process, Wald explores embodiment, inheritance, and the tension between flesh, memory, and material, using women close to her as subjects.

Wald also created and currently leads an art course at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv in the rehabilitation ward, focusing on artistic rehabilitation, physically and mentally, for adult patients.