YAIR BARAK
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Installation view from the solo exhibition Moving away from something he stares at, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2014
Exhibition: Moving away from something he stares at, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2014
Exhibition: The Whole Truth, 2013, Geneva
Click here to view the exhibition 'Generally Speaking', Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2014
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Biography
Born in 1973, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Education
2008-2009 - MFA program, Bard College, New York, US
2001 - Graduate ,department of photography, Camera Obscura school of Art, Tel-Aviv, IL
1996-1997 - Architecture Department, Bezalel Academy of art and design, Jerusalem, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2019 - Three inward heads, Mishkan Museum of art, Ein Harod. curators: Yaniv Shapira & Tal Gelfer, IL
2017 - Continents and Faces, The Herzliya artists residence, curator: Ran Kasmy-Ilan (cat.), Herzliya, IL
2017 - Hindsight, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary art, Curator: Aya Lurie (cat.), Herzliya, IL
2014 - Moving away from something he stares at, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL
2014 - Generally Speaking, Julie m. Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2013-14 - The Whole Truth, Gowen contemporary, Geneva, CH
2013 - The Winners, The Ashdod Museum of Art (culture ministry prize), Ashod, IL
2013 - New Directions, Mani House, Tel Aviv, Ashod, IL
2013 - Plagiarism and Revolutions, Dan Gallery, curated by Smadar Sheffi, Tel Aviv, IL
2012 - Immersion, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2010 - Regarding History, Tavi-Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2007 - Midnight Frost, curated by Yaniv Shapira, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv, IL
2005 - Earth Works, curated by Yehudit Matzkel, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, IL
2004 - The Deceit of the Outskirts, curated by Haim Maor, the Ben-Gurion University, Be’er-Sheba, IL
2003 - Getaways, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, IL
Two Men Shows
2018 - Hand Stand, Yair Barak & Matan Oren, Barbur Gallery, curator: Hadas Amster, Jerusalem, IL
2017 - Emek Refaim, Yair Barak & Netta Lieber Sheffer, The Lobby art space,Tel-Aviv, IL
2010 - All those wonderful places, Yair Braak & Orit Raff, Tivon Art Gallery, curator: Taly Cohen Garbuz, IL
2008 - Dialogue, Yair Barak & Ohad Matalon, HaMidrasha Gallery, Beit-Berl College, IL
2006 - Dwelling Unit, A two artist’s project curated by Shelly Cohen, the Architect’s House Gallery, Jaffa, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 - Signs, Ein hod Gallery, Ein hod, IL
2022 - All Theory is Gray, but the Tree of Life Springs Ever Green, Tel Aviv Museum of art, Tel Aviv, IL
2020 - Echos, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, DE
2019 - #FROMWHEREISTANDAsaf Gam Hachohen, Gidon Levin, Yair Barak, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, USA
2018 - 2018 Garment District Arts Festival, October 18-20, New York, USA
2018 - Blue Hour, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, CH
2018 - Tikva (Hope), at Ankori studio, curator: Yehezkel Lazarov, Jaffa, IL
2018 - Flood, The Ashdod museum of art, curator: Yuval Beaton, Israel, IL
2018 - Olrich, Photopoetica, Musrara college Gallery, curator: Ayellet Hashahar Cohen, IL
2017 - What goes around, comes around, Shechter Gallery, Curator: Shira Friedman, IL
2016 - Vacuum, the International photography festival, curators: Etti Shcwarts and Rea Ben-David, Jaffa, IL
2015 - Dad-Dad, P8 gallery, curator: Adi Shimoni, Tel-Aviv, IL
2014 - Under Erasure, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Irith Hadar (Cat.), IL
2014 - Spolia, Haifa Museum of Art, curator: Orit Bulgaro, IL
2014 - Tabula Rasa: Variations on White Trapeze, Kupferman’s House, Kibbutz Lochamei Ha-Getaot, curator: Irit Carmon Popper, IL
2013 - Winners of the Ministry of Culture and Sport 2012 Prizes for Art, Design and Curatorship, Ashdod Museum of Art Monart Centre, IL
2013 - New Directions, Leumi Bet Mani House, curator: Smadar Sheffi, Tel Aviv, IL
2012 - Black Box, curated by Rami Maymon, The 2012 Photo Festival, Tel Aviv, IL
2012 - Making Room, The Tel Aviv museum of art, Tel Aviv, IL
2010 - Orozco Was Here, curated by Ruthi Director, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2010 - Body of Evidence, curated by Liav Mizrahi, Mika gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2010 - Works from an Archive, a joint show with Orit Raff, curated by Taly Cohen Garbuz, The Tivon Art Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, IL
2009 - My Camp, curated by Liav Mizrahi, Dolinger Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2009 - In the Same Breath, curated by Yael Yudkovik, Tavi-Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2009 - Explosion, Contemporary Israeli Art, curated by Keren Bar Gil, Free studios, Geneva, CH
2009 - Tel Aviv Time, curated by Nilly Goren, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL
2007 - Engagement, curated by Nissan Perez, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
2007 - Explosive, Herzlya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzlya, IL
2007 - Miss America, Inbal Yona Levi, the Artist’s House, Jerusalem, IL
2006 - The Third Generation – Photography as an Identity Crisis, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2006 - Present Now, curated by Ben-Zvi, Reding power station, Tel Aviv, IL
2004 - Men in Blue and White, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2003 - The Jacques and Genya Ohana Collection of Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Awards
2017 - Israel National Lottery Council, support for The Continents & Faces at the Herzliya artists residence
2017 - The Ostrovsky Family fund for experimental film and video for Mirror Therapy
2017 - The Rabinovich fund support for Hindsight at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary art
2014 – Israel National Lottery Council, support for the Tel Aviv museum show Catalogue
2013 - Israel National Lottery Council, support (for The Whole Truth, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva)
2012 - The Ministry of Culture and Spart Art Encouragement Award
2009- Artist-Teacher Scholarship, Ministry of Culture and Sport
2002 - Sharet Prize of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2001- Sharett Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2000 - Sharet Prize of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation
Teaching
2012 - Chair of Studio Arts Practice Studies, Seminar Hakibutzim, Tel Aviv
2005 - 2007 - Chair, Photography Department, Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv
2001 - 2005 - Teaching at Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv
2001 - 2005 - Director of the External Studies Unit, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv
Curatorial projects
2019- Photography in fact, Sklar-Levy Gallery, Modi’in, IL
Collections
The SIP (Shpilman) collection
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Haifa Museum of Art
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Herzlya museum of contemporary Art
Shoken Collection
Hapoalim Bank, Israel
Judy & Michael Steinhard