Ruti Sela teaches at the Haifa University Avni Institute of Art and Design and at the Midrasha Art School. She has received a number of prizes and scholarships, among them the Anselm Kiefer prize. Her work has been shown internationally at various exhibitions and venues, including the Sydney Biennial (2006), Istanbul Biennial (2009), Berlin Biennial (2010), Manifesta 8 (2010), Israel Museum, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Art in General, New York, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tate Modern, London, and Jeu de Paume, Paris. In 2009, she initiated, together with Maayan Amir, the “Exterritory Project,” for which they won a Young Artist Award from the the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).