TAL SHOCHAT

Born 1974, Lives and works in , Israel

EDUCATION

1999 Art, Hamidrasha Art College, Beit Berl, Kalmaniya 1992 Plastic Art Stream, WIZO France Art High School, Tel Aviv, Israel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009 Photography Teacher, Hamidrasha Art College, Beit Berl, Kalmaniya 2002 Photography Teacher, Ironi Hey High School, Tel Aviv, Israel (Since 2000) Curator of the Art Gallery, Hamidrasha Art College, Beit Berl, Kalmaniya (Since 2000) Art and Photography Workshops, and Private Individual Tutoring (Since 1999)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 In Praise of a Dream, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA 2011 In Praise of a Dream, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Sometimes It’s Cold In The Morning, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2007 Flying Ceiling, Herzliya Museum of Art 2005 Awakening, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY Awakening, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2003 Queen of the Night, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1999 Marshim, Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 Leaving the Land of Roses, Shulamit Gallery, Venice, CA 2012 Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (through 2013) Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF Summer Solstice, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY 2010 Videozone V: The 5th International Video Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel Family Flies, The Jewish Museum, Munich, Germany 2009 Four Openings in Israeli Art, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Ethics/Aesthetics, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel Fireflies, The Curatorial Studies Program Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 100 Years - 101 Women Artists, The Amiad Center, Jaffa, Israel Tel Aviv Time, , Tel Aviv, Israel 2008 Good Kids, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Dead End, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Stills 07-08, Oranim Art Institute Gallery, Israel

Centered Space, Nachshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel Real Time – Art in Israel 1998-2008, The , , Israel Personal Landscapes, American University, Washington D.C. 2007 The Other Sea, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel Group Exhibition within the Photograph Series Project, Bet Gabriel Gallery, Israel 2006 Raw and Cooked, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Israel Apropos, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Petach Tikva Museum, Israel Omanut Haaretz, Reding Power Plant, Tel Aviv, Israel Far and Away, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Recipients Prizes in Art and Design, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Making a Scene, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel The Art of Living, Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco 2005 Face to Face, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Disrupted Realism, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Israel through the Photographer’s Lens, The Jewish Community Center, New York, NY 2004 Current Visions, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY Love Is In The Air, Time for Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2003 Flowers, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Every Day, Every Year, New Art Gallery, Tivon, Israel 2002 Mother Tongue, Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel 2001 Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2000 Ladies and Gentlemen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Arie Aroch, Pe’er Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Graduates at Rosenfeld, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1999 Regarding Raffi, Nofar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Art Auction, ArtLink & Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Hai Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai, Israel

AWARDS

2005 The Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture Prize for a Young Artist

SELECTED PRESS

2012 Cameo Smith, “Tal Shochat’s work included in the collection of photography from the Middle East to be displayed in London,” Haaretz, July 18, 2012 Exhibition Review, Huffington Post, March 14, 2012 Abigail Minor, “Busted ears, Jewish trees, and tattoo flash,” City Paper, February 9, 2012 Menachem Wecker, “Tu B’Shvat a Holiday in Transition,” The Forward, February 7, 2012 Laura Amann, Exhibition Review. Uwishunu, February 1, 2012 Deborah Hirsch, “Photos Rooted in an Artistic Tradition,” Jewish Exponent, Feb 1, 2012 Hadas Kuznits, “Special Tree Exhibit at Jewish Museum,” CBSPhilly.com, January 23, 2012

Peter Crimmins, Exhibition Review, “In Praise of Trees,” NewsWorks, January 24, 2012 2011 “Goings On About Town: Art,” The New Yorker, October 27, 2011 Peggy Roalf, Exhibition Review, Design Arts Daily, October 27, 2011 Sandee Brawarsky, Exhibition Review, The Jewish Week, September 30, 2011

COLLECTIONS

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Shpilman Institute of Photography, Tel Aviv, Israel The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel