1956 Born in Israel

Lives and works in Tel Aviv

Since 2007  – Teaches art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.

Since 2001  -  Teaches art at the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel.

1983  – 2006 -  Teaches art at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, Givatayim, Israel.

1993 – 2004 – Teaches art at Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv.

1995 – 1996  – Studied at the New Seminar for Visual Culture, Criticism and Theory, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv.

1978-1982   -  Studied art at the Avni School of Art, Tel Aviv.

One-Person Exhibitions

2009 – KINGS OF ISRAEL, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2009 Screenings, Tegen 2 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2008 – OI VA’AVOI, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2007 – “Boaz Arad: VoozVooz,” The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (cat.)

1986 – Mapu Gallery, Tel Aviv

1985 – Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 – Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder/ Grief Hunter examines the reletionships between origin Through video, photography, drawing and sculpture. -ICA PHILADELPHIA – Gordon and i

2011 ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG! EX GIL – ROMA

2010 Newbarbrism – Rotshild 12 Tel avia

2010 Decadence Now! Visions of Excess. Galerie Rudolfinumu Prague

2010 Overview israeli video 2000 – 2010 Haifa Museum – Gefiltefish

2010 “O God” Hanina Gallery Tel Aviv Annunciation Video and sculptur

2010 “Leaders” Petach Tiquva Museum – Ben Guryon sculpture

2009 hulululu (abroad-road-road), P8 gallery, Tel Aviv.

Curator: Rakefet Viner Omer

2009 Fucking Tourists, Hotel Galini, Athens, Greece.

Curators: konstantinos Dagritzikos & Yael Messer

2009 Entartung, “Degenerate Art”, Dan Gallery.

Curator: Maayan Amir

2009 “Starter”, Ironi H Gallery.

Curators:Eli Barak, Ofra Harnam, Naama Ben yosef

2009 Your Cat is Dead, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv.

Curator: Doron Rabina

2009 2009 Tel Aviv Time, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Curator: Nili Goren

2008 – Good Kids, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv.

2008 – “Self Portrait”, Cabri Gallery of Israeli Art, Israel.

Minshar for Art, Art School and Culture Center

ART OF THE STATE, Contemporary Photography and Video Art

from Israel, The Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam

Real Time – Art in Israel 1998-2008″, Israel Museum Jerusalem (cat.)

“Access to Israel I & II– Israeli Contemporary Art,

Stadt Frankfurt Am Main (Cat.)

“Mamma’s Boy”, Bait Banamal, Tel Aviv (Cat.)

“Dead End”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2007 – “Food for Thought: A Video Art Sampler,” The Jewish Museum, New York

- “Surrealism and Beyond,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

- “This is Not Israeli Art,” Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv (curator: Maayan Amir)

- “Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art,” The Jewish Museum, New York

- “Temporally,” The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

Curator: Hadas Maor; cat.

2006 – “Storytellers,” The Art Gallery, University of Haifa

Curator: Ruti Direktor; cat.

- “Untitled,” The Art Gallery, University of Haifa (with Miki Kratsman)

Curator: Ruti Direktor; cat.

- “Equal and Less Equal,” Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (with Miki Kratsman)

Curator: Raphie Etgar

- “Double Exposure: Middle-Eastern Rooftops,” Makor Gallery, New York (with Tsibi Geva and Miki Kratsman)

- “Wanderland: Israel – Palestine,” Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (with Miki Kratsman)

Curator: Martin Hentschel; cat.

- “Canal Street” as part of “VideoTrip”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

- “Five Wall Paintings,” The Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv

Curator: Doron Rabina

2005 – “Alphabet: Contemporary Israeli Art,” Kristinehamns konstmuseum, Sweden (with Miki Kratsman)

- “Etched Voices,” Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Curators: Yehudit Shendar and Sorin Heller

- “Why Don’t You Say It?,” Herzliya Museum of Art

Curator: Michal Heiman

- “1889 (Braunau, Austria) – 1945 (Berlin, Germany),” Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

- “November 4, 1995: Assassination in Retrospect,” Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Miki Kratsman)

Curator: Dana Arieli-Horowitz

- “Blanks,” The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (with Miki Kratsman)

Curators: Joshua Simon and Sergio Edelsztein; cat.

2004 – “Alphabet: Contemporary Israeli Art,” Stockholmsmässan (Stockholm International Fairs) (with Miki Kratsman)

- Recipients of the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Prizes exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art

- “Everything Could Be Seen,” Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery (with Miki Kratsman)

Curator: Ariella Azoulay

- “What is it that makes contemporary houses so different and so charming?” Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Galia Yahav

2003 – “Wonderyears: New Reflections on the Shoah and Nazism in Israeli Society,” NGBK, Berlin; Künstraum Kreuzberg / Künstlerhaus Bethanie, Berlin (cat.)

- “Mifkad,” Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Miki Kratsman)

- “Gordon and I,” as part of “VideoTrip”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

- “Border Counter,” 50th Venice Biennale (with Miki Kratsman)

- “Border Counter,” Roomade Gallery, Brussels (with Miki Kratsman)

- Art Focus 4 International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Museum of the Underground Prisoners, Jerusalem (with Miki Kratsman)

Curators: Suzanne Landau and Yigal Zalmona; cat.

2002 – “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery / Recent Art,” The Jewish Museum, New York (curator: Norman L. Kleeblatt; book)

- “Something Local,” Contemporary Art Project, Weizman Square, Holon, Israel

2001 – “A4,” Alon High School, Ramat Hasharon, Israel

- “Storytellers,” Pe’er Gallery – Hamidrasha, Tel Aviv

- “Igal Amir’s Victory,” Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

- “Portrait,” Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv

2000 – “The Erection in Israeli Art,” Pe’er Gallery – Hamidrasha, Tel Aviv

- “The Angel of History,” Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel

Curator: Ariella Azoulay

- “The Disaster of Love,” Museum of Art, Ein Harod (curator: Galia Yahav)

- “The 33rd Year,” Beit Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv

Curators: Aïm Deüelle Lüski. Roee Rosen, Tamar Getter

1997 – “The Museum of Irony and Love of the Land,” Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov

- “Black Box,” Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv

1994 – “Israeli Art,” The Broadcasting Authority Headquarters, Hanover

1990 – Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv

Video Screenings

2010 Home Cinema – Israeli Video Art & Performance Jewish Museum London  - Gefiltefish

2010  8th International Short Film Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria – Gordon and I ,  untill when,

Kings of Israel

2009 Travelling in Rennes, France, curator: Brent Klinkum

2008 24th International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany (Gefilte Fish, 2005)

2006 – “The Sound of the Word,” The Jerusalem Khan Theater, Jerusalem

(The Annunciation, 100 Beats, Safam, Hebrew Lesson, Marcel Marcel)

2005 – “Alphebet: Israeli Contemporary Art,” Kristinhams Konstmuseum, Sweden (21:40)

- “Homesick Home,” Zentrum fur kulturproduktion, Bern (Until When?)

- “Homemade: An Israeli Video Art Compilation,” R.R Cultural Center, Buenos Aires (Marcel Marcel)

2004 – “Local time 7,” Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Dual Movie with Elyasaf Kowner)

- Israeli Video Art in Poland, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Marcel Marcel)

- Vienna Jewish Film Week, The Jewish Museum, Vienna (21:40, Great Inner Peace)

- VideoZone2: The 2nd International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Until When?)

2003 – The 2nd Annual Detroit International Video Festival, Detroit (Marcel Marcel)

- Art In General, New York (21:40)

- Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Lattice with Miki Kratsman and Tsibi Geva)

- “Phil Collins Selection of Documentary Films by Contemporary Artists,” Barbican Center, London (21:40)

- “Ontology of a Conflict,” Seminar for Political Documentary Film, Ma’alot, Israel (21:40)

- Sala1 Gallery, Rome (Immense Inner Peace)

- Foundation Modern Art Centre, Lisbon (21:40)

- International Video Festival, Manchuria, China (21:40)

- Homemade: Video Art in Poland, Cytryna Cinema, Lodz, Poland (Marcel Marcel, Canal Street)

- Screenings of The New Foundation for Cinema and Video Art, Tel Aviv Cinematheque (21:40 with Miki Kratsman)

2002 – “Zoom In Zoom Out,” Art In General, New York (Immense Inner Peace)

- ”Black Box,” Argos, Brussels (Immense Inner Peace)

- Video Art from Israel, Orensanz Foundation Center, New York (Marcel Marcel)

- VideoZone1: The First International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv

Cinematheque (21:40); Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv (Loop)

2001 – “Local Time 4,” Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Cinematheques (Canal Street)

- Jerusalem Film Festival (Marcel Marcel, Hebrew Lesson, 100 Beats)

- “Novalog,” Stadtbank, Berlin (Immense Inner Peace)

2000 – “Local Time 3,” Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Immense Inner Peace)

1999 – “Local Time 2,” Tel Aviv Cinematheque (The Man)

Prizes and Awards

2006 – The Petach Tikva Museum of Art Prize

2004 – Prize to Encourage Creativity, The Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport

Videography

2009 Kings of israel 10 min

2006 – The Annunciation, 5 min

2005 – Gefiltefish, 11 min

2004 – Until When?, 4:30 min

2003 – Dual Movie, with Elyasaf Kowner, 12 min

- 21:40, with Miki Kratsman, 6:30 min

- Gordon and I, 4:30 min

- Lattice, with Tsibi Geva and Miki Kratsman, 53 min

- Kelev Andalusi, 15 min (after Salvador Dalם and Luis Buסuel’s Un Chien Andalou)

2002 – Loop, unlimited duration

- Canal Street, 2 min

- Untitled, with Miki Kratsman, 40 min

2001 – Immense Inner Peace, 6:30 min

2000 – Hebrew Lesson, 12 sec

- Marcel Marcel, 27 sec

1999 – The Man, 6 min

- 100 Beats, 1 min

- Safam (Mustache), 30 sec

- Safam 2, 13 sec

Publications

MAAKAF  – http://maakaf.co.il/914

Alexander de la paz http://problematics.org/boaz-arad/

- Hemda Rosenbaum, “Talking Heads,” Achbar Ha’ir, 15 Feb. 2007 [Hebrew].

- Maya Becker, “The Nazi Hunter, Yedioth Ahronoth – 7 Nights Supplement, 9 Feb. 2007 [Hebrew]

- Galia Yahav, “Ana Frenk (*of Eastern origin),” TimeOut Tel Aviv 223, 8 Feb. 2007 [Hebrew].

- Dana Arieli-Horowitz, “Loop: Igal Amir’s Victory,” in Dana Arieli-Horowitz, Creators in Overburden: Rabin Assassination, Art and Politics (Jerusalem: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 2005) [Hebrew].

- Eitan Buganim, “An Artist on Fire,” Nana [Hebrew].

- Maaria Oikarinen, “Holokaustin hahmoja,” Historiallinen Aikakauskirja, Finland, Feb. 2004.

- Gene Ray, “Working Out and Playing Through: Boaz Arad’s Hitler Videos” in Gene Ray, Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory: From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 (New York: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2005).

- Gene Ray, “Boaz Arad’s Hitler Videos,” Afterimage, Sept.-Oct. 2003.

- Ariella Azoulay, “The Return of the Repressed,” in Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust, eds.: S. Hornstein, L. Levitt, and L.J. Silberstein (New York: New York University Press, 2003), pp. 85-117.

- Dana Gilerman, “Co-existence on a Bald Head,” Haaretz, Gallery Section, 17 Sept. 2003 [Hebrew].

- Dana Gilerman, “The Trauma and the Ridicule,” Haaretz, Gallery Section, 13 Sept. 2001 [Hebrew].

- Ariella Azoulay, “The Return of the Repressed: Hitler Representations in Israeli Art,” Studio 124, June 2001, pp. 56-66 [Hebrew]

- Joanna Lindenbaum, “The Villain Speaks the Victim’s Language,” in Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery / Recent Art, ed. Norman L. Kleeblatt, exh. cat. (New York: The Jewish Museum and Rutgers University Press, 2001).

- Gilad Meltzer, “A Small Country with a Moustache,” Yedioth Ahronoth, 7 Days Supplement, 8 Sept. 2000 [Hebrew].

Alexander de la pas – http://problematics.org/boaz-arad/

Collections

The Jewish Museum, New York

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Haifa Museum of Art