Brooklyn, New York
Born 1967, Kibbutz Mizrah, Israel
Visual Artist
The term "stage" as a locus of special dynamics is central to my practice in sculpture, installation and video. I'm drawn to the shift a space might undergo from a concrete site to a fictional one. Thought of in the context of the social sphere, I'm interested in this moment of agency, a moment of potent reflexivity where the subject changes its relationship to an oppressive matrix. Thinking of architecture as stage allows me to read modernist space as a fiction, and then to reenact some of its myths: clashes of futurism and primitivism, international style and ethnic folklore, totalitarianism and utopic positivism.
2003 M.F.A., Visual Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts
1992 B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2008 Who Owns the World? Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
2006 The Random Element, P.S.1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY
2005 Cyclops, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Villa #3, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1995 Avivit, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2007 Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
2006 Mercury In Retrograde, De Appel Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
2005 Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
2001 Helena, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Honors and Awards
2007 The Fund for Video and Experimental Film Award
2003-2004 Chosen Artist of I.C. Excellence Foundation
2002 The Israeli Minister of Culture Award
1998 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
