An artist and filmmaker, she works primarily with video. She first started working in the early 2000s, and her work deals with questions such as national identity, ethnicity, otherness and gender, filtered through the context of the political and economic scenario of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She studied photography at the Camera Obscura School of Arts in Tel Aviv between 1983 and 1985, and at the Gruppe für Autodidaktische Fotografie in Zurich between 1990 and 1992. From 2001 to 2003, she studied photography and video art at the Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts in Beit Berl, Israel. Her works have been shown at the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon, 2012; the House of Israeli Culture in São Paulo, 2011; the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2008; and the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, 2007. In 2003, Nurit Sharett won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports. Lives and works in Tel Aviv.