Ishai Shapira Kalter

°1986 (Ness Ziona, ), Lives and works in Tel Aviv, IL

Education

2017 MFA Studio Art, Hunter College, New York, NY 2013 BFA (Cum Laude) Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, , IL ​ ​ 2011 Department of Fine Art Media, The Slade School of Fine Arts (UCL), London, UK

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

(Yod Alef), Poppositions Off-Fair, Brussels, BE (Forthcoming) יא‘ 2018 ​ ​ ​ Yod), RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Cur. Leah Abir) י׳ 2017 ​ ​ 2016 Inescapable Droughts, YARAT Studios, Baku, AZ ​ ​ ​ ​ 2015 HOBBY, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Cur. Nogah Davidson ​ ​ 2014 A Moment of Truce, Hachanut Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL With Roni Weiss ​ ​ Aliyah Market, STA Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL With Zac Hacmon ​ ​

Group Exhibitions & Screenings (Selected) ​ ​

2018 Real Time, Third Floor On The Left, Tel Aviv, IL Cur. Meytal Aviram (Forthcoming) ​ ​ ​ India Art Fair, New Delhi, IN (Forthcoming) ​ 2017 Everyday Stones, Art Market Budapest, Budapest, HU Cur. Leah Abir ​ ​ Void, Veinti4/Siete Galería, San José, CR Cur. Aviya Cohen ​ ​ MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY ​ ​ 2016 Welcome Abroad! /~ Goodbye!, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY Cur. Maya Yadid ​ ​ Hidden Door, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Edinburgh, SCT ​ ​ Pink Dizzle, Tel Aviv, IL Cur. Yuval Galili and Yonatan H. Mishal ​ ​ 2015 Factory Fetish, West Space, Melbourne, AU Cur. Liang Luscombe and Joshua Simon ​ ​ After 20 Years: Design, Memorial, Rabin, HIT - The Vitrine Gallery, Holon, IL Cur. Prof. Dana Arieli ​ ​ Facade, Central Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Cur. Doron Furman ​ ​ Weekend of Art and Culture, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL ​ ​ Work and Progress, Fablab Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Cur. Diana Churges ​ ​ ULTRA Y, Nuzhaa Youth Art Gallery, Jaffa, IL Cur. Liav Mizrahi ​ ​ Mind the Gap, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv, IL Cur. Boaz Arad ​ ​ Excess, Gabirol, Tel Aviv, IL Cur. Natalie Feldesman ​ ​ 2014 Loving Art Making Art, Gabirol, Tel Aviv, IL ​ ​ Ruminate, Bet Herschel Theater, Gvat, IL Cur. Ayana Shany ​ ​ 2013 Goods, MoBY: The Ben Ari Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, IL Cur. Liz Hagag and Joshua Simon ​ ​ Black Box II, Manofim Festival, Jerusalem, IL Cur. Natalie Levin and Moran Guttman ​ ​ BFA Thesis Exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, IL Cur. Miki Kratsman ​ ​

Awards, Grants and Scholarships

2017 Master’s Theses Support Grant 2016 Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts 2015 Asylum Arts Research Grant UJA - Federation of NY, The Jean and Albert Nerken Scholarship Fund ​ The Rabinovich Foundation ​ 2014 Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts The Rabinovich Foundation Gabirol Artists House, Sponsored Studio by The City Council of Tel Aviv 2013 10X10 Award for Best Final Project, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design 2010 Bezalel Excellency Award for High Achievements

Residencies

2016 YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, AZ 2015 Asylum Arts, Garrison, NY

Monographs and Publications (Selected) ​

2017 Prefaces, RawArt Gallery Press, English and Hebrew ​ ​ 2016 HALAL, Independent publishing, English ​ ​ (205 HUDSON ST.) From Occupation to the State of Immigration, Independent publishing, English ​ ​ 2013 Things Can Always Be Otherwise Than What They Are, Independent publishing, Hebrew ​ ​ ​

Talks and Events (Selected) ​ ​

2016 Open Engagement - POWER, Oakland Museum of California, CA 2015 Open Studios, Hunter College, New York, NY HOBBY, Symposium, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL (Nogah Davidson, Joshua Simon, Dr. Noam Yoran, Serge Tiroche) ​ Owls, Workshop, Gabirol Artists House, Tel Aviv, IL ​ 2013 Exterritory, Workshop by Ruti Sela and Dr. Maayan Amir ​ ​ Histories, Workshop by Udi Edelman, The Israeli Center for Digital Arts, Holon, IL Flesh and Blood, Performance, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, IL 2012 Kibbutz Bait Reik, Performance, Jerusalem, IL Curatorial

2018 Amit Levinger: TBA, Ventilator, Tel Aviv, IL (Forthcoming) ​ ​ ​ 2017 Shir Moran and Shiri gilad: TBA, Ventilator, Tel Aviv, IL (Forthcoming) ​ ​ ​ Ira Shalit: The Single Cigarettes (2011-2017), Ventilator, Tel Aviv, IL ​ ​ Bar Faber: Fission, Ventilator, Tel Aviv, IL ​ ​ 2014 Helena Nights, Jakob Garden and Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, , Tel Aviv, IL ​ ​

Press

2018 Issue #19, Harama Magazine 2017 The Single Cigarettes, TELAVIVIAN, by Camea Smith Galleria | , by Shaul Setter Shahar Sarig on Two Exhibitions, Benedikta Magazine, by Shahar Sarig What happens in the field?, Basis Magazine, by Dana Gillerman Issue #1: Innocence, Milk and Honey Magazine ​ 2016 A Fertile Wasteland: The Galleries of South Tel Aviv MutualArt and Huffington Post, by Charlotte Jansen Proportionate Performance, Erev Rav, by Yonatan Amir 2015 City Mouse Prizes: Best Exhibition of The Year City Mouse | Haaretz, by Dagan Wald New Exhibitions, Galleria | Haaretz by Eitan Buganim ​ Artisteam | Mahut HaHaim Radio, by Dr. Shimon Azoulai and Alon Noiman ​ Highlighted Relationships, 7 Leilot | Yediot Aharonot, by Dana Gillerman Not a Provocation Calcalist, by Reut Barnea This Time It’s The Collectors on Display, Galleria | Haaretz, by Galia Yahav What Caused the Collector Igal Ahuvi to Curse “You Are Shit”?, Galleria | Haaretz, by Shani Litman ​ ​ What’s Opening, OH-SO-ARTY, By Sarah Peguine 2014 ISAAC ET ISMAEL, SE REPARLER?, Tenou'a Magazine N° 158, Paris, FR ​ ​ Aesthetics and Culture of Eritreans without them, Galeria | Haaretz, by Galia Yahav Four Exhibitions Opening in Tel Aviv, The Bubblist, by Eva Kirilof Aliyah Market, TELAVIVIAN, by Francesca Kletz ​ ​ 2013 Who Proposed Nicol Raidman?, Mako, by Sefie Katzav GOODS, TELAVIVIAN, by Guy Yanai My Own Avrushmi, Avihai-House Magazine, by Ofer Matan ​

Public Collections

The Israeli Center for Digital Art’s Video Archive, Holon, IL