Rami Maymon
Born in Israel, 1976 Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Education 2001-2003 MFA, Bezalel Graduate of Fine Art Program, Tel Aviv 1995-1999 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem 1998 Cooper Union of Art and Science, Manhattan, NY
Solo Exhibitions 2015/16 Further Reading, the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of art 2015 Phonetic Transcription, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv 2014 Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Merchav, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Eyal Weiser) 2013 Further Reading, the Photography Gallery, Hamidrasha School of Art 2012 Untitled (Dora Maar), Video installation at Shpilman Institute, the 2nd International Photography Festival, Jaffa 2011 White Night, Hinterhof Space, Basel 2010 Living Room, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (catalogue; text by Hadas Maor) 2008 Sunset, Installation at the Iltis-Bunker, Kiel, Germany 2007 The Diver & the Bee, Noga Gallery of Art, Tel Aviv 2005 The Pollinator, Bjcem-XII Biennial of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy 2004 Home & Away, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv 2003 Private Collection 2, Graduate Program of Art, Bezalel, Tel Aviv 2002 Back in a Minute, Artists' Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv Private Collection 1, Hamidrasha Gallery, Beit Berl, Israel 1999 State of Emergency, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects 2016 How is the Beast, 18th China International Arts Festival, The Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai Under Arms. Fire and Forget 2, Museum Angewandte Kunst and KW, Berlin. A New Horizon for New Horizons, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod. 2015 Whitin Reach, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod. Without a Trace, The Artists Studios Gallery, Jerusalem. Kisuim, Kupferman collection, Kibbuta Lohamei Hagetaot. 3rd Generation in Global Perspective, Amelie A. Wallance, NY 2014 The Double Exposure Project, the Shpilman Institute for Photography 2013 Radical-Jung Festival, Folks Theater, Munich Moby Dick, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Tzomeach Domem, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv
Yonas Al Masri - Dead or Alive, Baad Reservoir Gallery, Tel Aviv Contemporary Art at Rothschild 69, Tel Aviv 2012 Black Box, Billboards art project, Jerusalem Black Box, 2nd International Photography Festival, Jaffa Provenance, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv This is the Land, A performance in collaboration with Eyal Weiser, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv Artists at Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv BAAD Influence, Baad Reservoir Gallery, Tel Aviv Nature, Wild and Culture, Inga Gallery at Fresh Paint Art Fair 2011 Mein Jerusalem, A performance in collaboration with Eyal Weiser, Roxy theater space, Basel / Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv Noise, Baalei Hamelacha Gallery, Tal Aviv 2010 Young Artist Prize, Israeli Ministry of Science and Culture, Herzliya Museum Networking, Baalei Hamelacha Gallery, Tel Aviv 2009 My Camp, Minshar Gallery / Inga Gallery of Art, Tel Aviv 2008 Mifgash #4, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv Tshuka, the Photography Gallery at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem The Political Body, Tmuna Gallery, Tel Aviv The Tyranny of the Transparent, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv Vitrine, the Photography Gallery at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem 2007 Soldiers, Herzliya Biennial, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel All the Shades between Black & White, Gilit Fisher Gallery, Tel Aviv Paper Works, Noga Gallery of Art, Tel Aviv African Geometry, Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland The 3rd Generation, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv 2006 Men, Ramat-Gan Museum of Art, Israel After, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel Blanks, Center of Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv Holon Now, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon 2005 Passion, Villa Franchi, Venice 2004 Hamilton, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv Sharon, Rachel & Israel Pollak Gallery (Kalisher), Tel Aviv 2003 Contemporary Art Event, the Redding Power Station, Tel Aviv Contemporary Art Event in the Weizmann Sq, the Digital Art Lab, Holon, Israel Traces of the Shore, The national Maritime Museum, Haifa Salame & Abulafia, Bezalel Graduate Studies' Gallery, Tel Aviv 2002 Mother Tongue, Ein Harod Museum of Art / Um el-Fahem Gallery, Israel 2001 Looking In Looking At, Bezalel Graduate Studies' Gallery, Tel Aviv 001, Peer Gallery of Hamidrasha School of Art, Tel Aviv Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv 20 Videos, Bezalel Graduate Gallery, Tel Aviv 1999 Alley Cats, Art Focus #3, the 3rd International Biennial, Jerusalem One Size Fits All, Independent Show, the Artists Studios, Jerusalem
Grants and Awards 2015 The Minister of Culture Award for Fine-Art Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport. 2015 The Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist 2014 Rudin Prize for emerging photographer, Norton Museum of Art 2013 Lottery Council for Culture and Art The Critics Choice Award, Radical-Jung Festival, Munich 2011 IAAB and Culture-Spaces scholarship and residency, Basel 2009 Young Artist Prize, Israeli Ministry of Science and Culture 2008 RADIUS, Research-Based Art Scholarship, Germany 2007 Residency at the Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland 2004 Yehoshua Rabinowitz Arts Fund 2001-2002 Studies Scholarship, the Bezalel Graduate Program, Tel Aviv 1999 Bezalel Academy Excellence and Achievement Grant
Curatorial Projects 2013 Undergraduate Exhibition, Hamidrasha School of Art 2012 Black Box, the 2nd International Photography Festival, Jaffa 2011 Undergraduate Exhibition, Hamidrasha School of Art 2010 Undergraduate Exhibition, Hamidrasha School of Art 2007 Now and Then, Michal Ben-Tovim, the Photography Gallery, Bezalel, Jerusalem 2006 8 Months 4 Seasons, Michal Lenart, the Photography Gallery, Bezalel, Jerusalem Holon Now (with Yossi Breger and David Adika), the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon 2001 Looking in Looking at, 65 artists at the Bezalel Graduate Program of Art, Tel Aviv 1999 One Size Fits All, Independent Show, the Artists Studios, Jerusalem
Teaching 2002 Lecturer and member, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem 2007 Lecturer, the Midrasha school of Art, Beit Berl, Israel
Activities 2013 Jury member, Young Artist Prize, Israeli Ministry of Science and Culture 1999-2004 Photographer for the French Magazine 'Purple'
Maymon’s works have been published in many journals, books and magazines in Israel and abroad.