Yoav S. Liberman is a studio furniture maker. His work combines the old and new, using found objects and discarded wood as a source and inspiration for the pieces that he builds.
Yoav received his architectural degree from the Israel Institute of Technology. From 2001 to 2003, he was an Artist-in-Residence at the Worcester Center for Crafts. In 2003, Yoav joined Eliot House at Harvard University where he teaches woodworking and furniture design. In October 2006 Yoav was appointed as an adjunct faculty member in Shenkar College, Israel, where he teaches furniture design, materials and construction.
His work has appeared in several juried exhibitions in United States, most recently in the Trashformations East exhibition at the Fuller Craft Museum and in SOFA Chicago 2005. Yoav’s Etrog box was one of the finalists at the 2005 Niche Awards.   
Yoav’s articles on furniture design and woodworking have been published in Israel’s leading design magazines.  His work has also been featured in several nationwide publications, including the the Harvard Gazette (2005, 2007), Woodwork Magazine (Oct 2007) and the Boston Globe (Nov 2007). Two of his pieces have appeared in a recent art book on innovative approaches to woodturning – 500 Wood Bowls (Lark Books 2004)
Yoav designs and builds his pieces at his Harvard studio in Cambridge MA. His pieces can be found in galleries in Cambridge, Worcester and Acton as well as in private collections in the United States, Israel and England.