Orit Ishay www.oritishay.co.il [email protected] Mobile: +972.(0) 545. 917. 880

Born 1961, -Jaffa Lives and works in Active in the fields of photography, video and installation

Education

2010-2012 Post Graduate Visual Arts Program, Ha’midrasha College of Art, Beit berl Academic College, IL 2003-2007 The Naggar school of Photography, Media & New Music in Musrara, Jerusalem (graduated with honors) B.E.D, The David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem (graduated with honors)

Workshops (2010-2012) Interruptive Communities, Mass & Art Critic, with Jan Verwoert Video workshop with Hito Steyrl Contemporary Art, Reading Art with Anri Sala Memory and the Object & The Joy of Becoming a Machine with Jan Verwoert Short Video Shooting, active video workshop with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehemann

Solo Exhibitions

2012 1917 (as a part of Attributes exhibition) MoBY - Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, IL 2011 Lucky Numbers, The Kaye Gallery for the Arts, Kaye College, Be’er Sheva 2010 Lucky Numbers, The Gallery in Kibbutz Bee’ri Public Domain - Seven Boom, Soulution and Evolution, Tina B, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech Public Domain - Seven Boom, The Gallery on The Cliff, Netanya 2009 Public Domain, TheHeder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 2008 Fire Zone, The Gallery in Kibbutz Nachshon Blocked, The Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem 2007 Regarding Pilgrims, The Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg 2006 Regarding Pilgrims, Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 Becoming, Ha'midrasha Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv No Ego, MusraraMix 13 festival, Jerusalem Yes Minister (Limited Edition), The Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv Friends with Benefit(s), CCA, Tel Aviv Plaster, Jaffa Art Salon Gallery, Warehouse 2, Jaffa Port Labor in a Single Shot - Another Day, International Art Film Festival, Artificial Islands, Municipal Art Gallery, Ramla Taboo Registration, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv 2012 Patterns of Behavior, Jerusalem Print Workshop (JPW), Jerusalem Breathing Concrete, KB45 art space, Tel Aviv Safe Harbor, The Cube Gallery, Jerusalem Daily Reports, MNAC, The National Museum For Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania Minor Exhibition, Ha'midrasha Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Teen Spirit, Grid 2012, International Photography Biennial, Amsterdam, Netherlands Land of Promise, video screening, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv New in the Collection, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, IL Land of Promise, video screening, TMCA Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea In The Making- testing tools #9, Bet Tami, Tel Aviv Written On Wall, Beit Kaner Art Gallery, Rishon Lezion, IL Closing Party, TheHeder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv The End of the World, Meyuhas Gallery, Tel Aviv City Light, first exhibition at the public domain space, Modi'in Fresh Paint #5, Israeli Art Fair, Tel Aviv 2011 New in Photography, The Jerusalem, Jerusalem Right Here, Right Now; Derby Museum and Art Gallery, UK Out of Proportion, Beit Kaner Art Gallery, Rishon Lezion Fox Tails on Fire, Rotschild 69 Art Space, Tel Aviv Where is There, the Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery Hunger Rush, The Farm Gallery, Holon The Promise Land, Video screaning, Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA Fresh Paint 04, The Botanic Gardens Tel Aviv 2010 New in Photography- Recent Acquistions, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Jerusalem Safe Haven, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Identity 3: Positioning, WUK- FotogalerieWien, Vienna Small is Beautiful & I already Said So, Vernon Gallery, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech Fresh Paint 03, Jaffa Tel Aviv Port 2009 Fotografie aus Israel, Kultur Bahnhof Eller Dusseldorf Art of Emergency, Artneuland Berlin Compact Duo, 10 Gallery, Beit Michal, Rehovot Big Spender, 5 Place for Art, Tel Aviv Bread and Roses, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv Idolatry/Foreign Work, MusraraMix 09 festival, Jerusalem The Musical Car, Juli M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 2008 Holga, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco No Where, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa 2007 Cats and Others, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Jerusalem of One’s Eye, The Social Gallery, Jerusalem Artic 9, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Desert Generation, Ha’Kibbutz Israeli Artists Gallery, Tel Aviv Desert Generation, The Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem Collective 82, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv Go A-Hat, Corinne Maman Ashdod Museum of Art 2006 Bread, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Attitude 03, Magaza Museum, Macedonia Periphery, The Social Gallery, Jerusalem Incognito, Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa Captured Moments, The Edge Gallery, Nahariya Graduate Exhibition, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem Kogniya, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem 2005 Attitude 02, Magaza Museum, Macedonia Moroccan Charm, Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem After Image, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem Disinformation My Love, The Israel Festival in Jerusalem

Installations and Activities in the Public Realm

2012 One Kilometer, #2 Haifa Walks, as a part of the exhibition HAIFA-JERUSALEM TEL AVIV, Haifa Museum Green Kuku, site specific installation #9 Contemporary Art Festival T.A, Testing Tools- In the Making, Beit Tami Tel Aviv 2009 Oskar, setting a sculpture of 3 meters high at the Tel Aviv #1 International Art Biennial

Scholarships and Awards

2012 Jerusalem Print Workshop, a scholarship for a yearly new project & exhibition 2011 The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri 2009 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Tel Aviv 2007-8 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Keren Sharett 2006-7 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Keren Sharett

Collections The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Ashdod Art Museum, MonArt Center Bank Ha'poalim Art Collection Beit Avi Chai, Jerusalem Recanati Art Collection, Tel Aviv A. Ahuvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv Ayelet Danielle Aldouby, New York Tod Paonessa, San Rafael, California The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv The Video Archive of The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon BAAD Gallery - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Reservoir Private Collections