Ayala Serfaty was born in Tel Aviv in 1962  and, after  completing her BFA in fine arts at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Middlesex Polytechnic in London, has lived there since the early 90's.
 
Over the past twenty years she has exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world. Her solo shows have included venues such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Beelden Ann Zee Sculpture Museum in The Hague. She has also participated internationally in group shows including the London Design Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Staatliches Museum fur Kunst und Design in Nuremberg, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
 
Serfaty's work is found in the collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.