Bio

Education and Teaching

2009—2018: Curator of HaMidrasha Gallery- HaYarkon 19, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007—2018: Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2001—2018: Lecturer, HaMidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel
1983—2005: Art Teacher, Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, Givatayim, Israel
1993—2004: Lecturer, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1995—1996: Studied at the New Seminar for Visual Culture, Criticism and Theory, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1978—1982: Studied art at the Avni School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

One-Person Exhibitions

2019: Weeping Willow, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curators: Guy Ben-Ner and Noi Fuhrer
2017: 1+0+1=2, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016: Behind all this Hides a Great Happiness, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015: The Collector, Dana Gallery, Yad Mordehay
2013: The Life, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012: Sussita, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011: Folk Tune, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011: Boaz Arad, Video and Photography, The Morel Derfler Gallery, Vizo Academy, Haifa
2009: Kings of Israel, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009: Hitler and I, virtual exhibition, Bezalel’s History&Theory website (http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/he/1252746792/1253422292)
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

2021: Being with the Animal, Minus1 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Efrat Livny
2020: Blade Memory, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Curators: Naama Arad, Eran Nave and Ishai Shapira Kalter

2020: Memorandum of Understanding, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2019: The True Artist, Fake News Fake Truth, Haifa Museum of Art, Curator: Svetlana Reingold

2019: Tiny Hands, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Naama Arad
2019: Summer 2019, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018: From the Artist’s Diary, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa, Curator: Svetlana Reingold
2018: Teacher’s Choice, Basis Gallery, Herzliya, Curator: Shlomit Broyer
2018: The Map: reading between the lines, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Curator: Batya Doner
2018: When the Jay feeds the Cuckoo, Art Center and Gallery, Ma’a lot Tarshicha. Curator: Ronia Harari
2018: ShowReal, Bezalel Photography Gallery, Jerusalem
2017: Zumu- Museum on the Move, 1^st Stop: Yeruham, Curator: Milana Gitzin Adiram
2017: Neuland/Altland- Theodor Herzl’s European Legacy, Jewish Museum of Switzerland
2017: A Full Cart, Historical train station Kefar Yehoshua. Curators: Neta Habar and Ayelet Herzwolf
2017: Taboo, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2016: Art School, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Avi Lubin
2016: The Black Art, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ron Bartos
2016: Sanctification of the Body, Meshuna gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Yael Fibak Ilan
2016: A New Horizon for New Horizons, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod. Curators: Prof. Gila Ballas, Dalia Danon and Yaniv Shapira
2016: Sotto lo stesso cielo” (Under the Same Sky) Pino Pascali Foundation in Polignano a Mare, Apulian, Italy
2016: Staring Back at the Sun, Towson University, USA
2016: Father, Father, P8 Contemporary Art Gallery. Curator: Ady Shimony
2015: After Twenty Years: Designing Rabin’s Memory, Vitrina gallery, Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Holon. Curator: Dana Arieli
2015: The Wandering Jew: an Artistic Reflection, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa. Curator: Svetlana Reingold
2015: The Museum Presents Itself 2: Israeli Art from the Museum Collection”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2015: Donkey Now – The Donkey in Israely Culture, Negev Museum of Art. Curator: Siona Shimshi
2015: 1858, between acceptable and taboo, Derpler gallery in Wizo, Haifa. Curators: Bar Zeli and Omer Ben – Zvi
2015: Gatherer / Non Functional Display, Jerusalem Artists’ House. Curator: Tami Ben Nun
2014: GOLA, Art and Science of Taste, Triennale di Milano, Italy
2013: See Under: Actor, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel, Curator: Noam Segal
2013: Yes, Minister, Tha Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Gilad Melzer
2013: The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Video from Israel, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
2013: ReCoCo — Life Under Representational Regimes, Bat-Yam Art Museum, curators: Siri Peyer, Joshua Simon (cat.)
2013: Eat, Love, Beit Meirov Gallery, Holon, curator: Nitza Peri
2011: History in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland, curator: Maria Anna Potocka (cat.)
2011: Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder/ Grief Hunters, ICA Philadelphia, curator: Doron Rabina (cat.)
2011: ReCoCo — Life Under Representational Regimes, White Space, Zurich, Switzerland, Curators: Siri Peyer, Joshua Simon
2011: Achtung! Achtung!, EX-Gil, Rome, Italy, curators: Barbara Collevecchio, Micol Di Veroli
2010: Decadence Now! Visions of Excess, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, curator: Otto M. Urban (Cat.)
2010: Neo Barbarism, Rothschild 69, Tel Aviv, curators: Naomi Aviv, Noam Segal (cat.)
2010: Overview — Israeli video 2000-2010, Haifa Museum of Art, curator: Sergio Edelsztein
2010: Oh God, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010: Leaders, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, curator: Sigal Kehat-Krinski
2010: HOMONYM, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Köln, Germany, curator: Maayan Amir
2010: Hulululu (abroad-road-road), P8 gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Rakefet Viner Omer
2010: Fucking Tourists, Hotel Galini, Athens, Greece, crators: konstantinos Dagritzikos and Yael Messer
2010: Entartung, “Degenerate Art”, Dan Gallery, curator: Maayan Amir
2010: Starter, Ironi H Gallery, curators: Eli Barak, Ofra Harnam, Naama Ben Yosef
2010: Your Cat is Dead, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Doron Rabina
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
2008: ART OF THE STATE, Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Israel, The Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam
2008: Minshar for Art, Art School and Culture Center
2008: Real Time – Art in Israel 1998-2008, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat.)
2008: Access to Israel I & II– Israeli Contemporary Art, Stadt Frankfurt Am Main (Cat.)
2008: Mamma’s Boy, Bait Banamal, Tel Aviv (cat.)
2008: Dead End, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007: Food for Thought: A Video Art Sampler, The Jewish Museum, New York
2007: Surrealism and Beyond, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2007: This is Not Israeli Art, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv, curator: Maayan Amir
2007: Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York
2007: Temporally, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, curator: Hadas Maor; (cat.)
2006: Storytellers, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa, curator: Ruti Direktor (cat.)
2006: Untitled, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa (with Miki Kratsman), curator: Ruth Direktor (cat.)
2006: Equal and Less Equal, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (with Miki Kratsman) curator: Raphie Etgar
2006: Double Exposure: Middle-Eastern Rooftops, Makor Gallery, New York (with Tsibi Geva and Miki Kratsman)
2006: Wonderland: Israel – Palestine, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (with Miki Kratsman), curator: Martin Hentschel (cat.)
2006: Canal Street as part of “Video Trip”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006: Five Wall Paintings, The Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Doron Rabina
2005: Alphabet: Contemporary Israeli Art, Kristinehamns konstmuseum, Sweden (with Miki Kratsman)
2005: Etched Voices, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, curators: Yehudit Shendar and Sorin Heller
2005: Why Don’t You Say It?, Herzliya Museum of Art, curator: Michal Heiman
2005: 1889 (Braunau, Austria) — 1945 (Berlin, Germany), Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005: November 4, 1995: Assassination in Retrospect, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Miki Kratsman), curator: Dana Arieli-Horowitz
2005: 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)
2004: Recipients of the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Prizes exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art
2004: Everything Could Be Seen, Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery (with Miki Kratsman) curator: Ariella Azoulay
2004: 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.)
2003: Mifkad, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Miki Kratsman)
2003: Gordon and I, as part of “Video Trip”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003: Border Counter, 50th Venice Biennale (with Miki Kratsman)
2003: Border Counter, Roomade Gallery, Brussels (with Miki Kratsman)
2003: 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)
2002: Something Local, Contemporary Art Project, Weizman Square, Holon, Israel
2001: A4, Alon High School, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
2001: Storytellers, Pe’er Gallery – Hamidrasha, Tel Aviv
2001: Igal Amir’s Victory, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001 Portrait, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000: The Erection in Israeli Art, Pe’er Gallery – Hamidrasha, Tel Aviv
2000: The Angel of History, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel, Curator: Ariella Azoulay
2000: The Disaster of Love, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Curator: Galia Yahav
2000: 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
1997: Black Box, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv
1994: Israeli Art, The Broadcasting Authority Headquarters, Hanover
1990: Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv

Video Screenings

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)
2005: Homesick Home, Zentrum fur kulturproduktion, Bern (Until When?)
2005: 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)
2004: Israeli Video Art in Poland, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Marcel Marcel)
2004: Vienna Jewish Film Week, The Jewish Museum, Vienna (21:40, Great Inner Peace)
2004: 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)
2003: Art In General, New York (21:40)
2003: Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Lattice with Miki Kratsman and Tsibi Geva)
2003: Phil Collins Selection of Documentary Films by Contemporary Artists, Barbican Center, London (21:40)
2003: Ontology of a Conflict, Seminar for Political Documentary Film, Ma’alot, Israel (21:40)
2003: Sala1 Gallery, Rome (Immense Inner Peace)
2003: Foundation Modern Art Centre, Lisbon (21:40)
2003: International Video Festival, Manchuria, China (21:40)
2003: Homemade: Video Art in Poland, Cytryna Cinema, Lodz, Poland (Marcel Marcel, Canal Street)
2003: 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)
2002: Black Box, Argos, Brussels (Immense Inner Peace)
2002: Video Art from Israel, Orensanz Foundation Center, New York (Marcel Marcel)
2002: 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)
2001: Jerusalem Film Festival (Marcel Marcel, Hebrew Lesson, 100 Beats)
2001: 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

2016: Mendel and Eva Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2006: The Petach Tikva Museum of Art Prize
2003: Prize to Encourage Creativity, The Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport

Collections

Centre Georges-Pompidou, France
The Jewish Museum, New York
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Haifa Museum of ArtTel Aviv Museum of Art
Private Collections