Liat Yossifor received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 and her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, in 2002. 

She was the recipient of Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House Berlin Fellowship, Germany, in 2022; an artist-in-residence at the Rauschenberg residency in Captiva Island, Florida, in 2020; and a guest of the Deutsche Börse Residency Program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, in Germany in 2010.

Select solo exhibitions include: Pre-Verbal Painting, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO; Expanding on an expansive subject, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; Time Turning Paint, Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA; The Tender Among Us, Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA; Double Life, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany; Movements, Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY; Life Against Itself, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL; The Stand, Paramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico; No Second Chances in the Land of a Thousand Dances, Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia; the gray feather a thrush lost, a VATMH fellow at 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany; and small seas, University of La Verne, CA.

Group exhibitions include: Liat Yossifor with Hans Kaiser, The Wilhelm Morgner Museum, Soest, Germany; Modulaciones, Museo de Arte de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico and at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico; B.A.T. State III: Women Artists in Conversation with El Nopal Press, Carolyn Campagna Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, CA; 100 Years and Counting, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Stolen Gestures, Kunsthaus Nurnberg, Germany; Subject, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT; New Works, The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL; From America, Museum of Modern Fine Arts, Minsk, Belarus; The Third Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, CA; To Here Knows When, University of La Verne, CA; The Real Me, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.