Sharon Yaari Born 1966 in Lives and works in , Israel

Education

1990-1994 B.F.A Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem 1989-1990 Study of Philosophy and General Studies, Tel-Aviv University 1998-2002 MPhil, Derby University, Faculty of Art Design and Technology

Academic / Teaching Experience

Since 2002 Senior Lecturer at Master’s Degree Program in Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Since 2000 Lecturer at the Art Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Haifa Since 1994 Teaches at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Senior Lecturer at the Photography Department

Prizes and Awards

2018 EMET Prize, Culture and Art: Photography, A.M.N Foundation Advancement of Science, Art and Culture in Israel 2013 Grant for publishing a printed exhibition catalogue The National Lottery Council for Culture 2010 Constantiner Photography Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2009 Creative Encouragement Award, Israel ministry of cultural & sport 2005 The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2004 Janet Gaphin Award, America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award 2000 Recipient of the 2000 Minister of Culture and Science Prize, Israel 1999 Gerard Levi Price, Young Photographer’s Price, The 1997 Young Artist Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture 1996 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2020 The Romantic Trail and the Concrete House, Haus Esters, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany; Curator: Magdalena Holzhey 2016 Officers Pool, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria Positive Images for field and Forest, National Gallery Museum, Vilnius Lithuania;

Curator: Iave Mazuraite-Novickiene (catalogue) 2014 Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA 2013 Leap Toward Yourself, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2012 Expectancy, Galleria Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria 2011 Jerusalem Blvd II, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland 2009 Jerusalem Blvd, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Sharon Ya’ari, Galleria Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria 2006 Hope for long distance photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. curator: Ellen Ginton (catalogue) 2003 Dust, Lombard/Freid Fine Art, New York 2002 Lisson Gallery, London Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv Project Room Arco, Madrid, Spain Drexler University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, USA 2001 Last Year, Lombard/Freid Fine Art, New York 2000 Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv 1999 Color Works, Herzlyia Museum of Art, Herzlyia 1996 Boxes in the Garden, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel-Aviv

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Vessel, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Fragile Creation, Dom Museum, Vienna, Austria Why do birds suddenly appear? Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria Galerie Martin Janda satellite space, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna Up and Down the Mountain, The New Gallery – Artists' Studios Teddy, Jerusalem Line on Note, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv 2019 20 Years, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Permanent collection, Photography and Media, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago To Hear Again, Almacen Gallery, Jaffa 2018 Flood, Contemporary Israeli Photography, Ashdod Art Museum Achzav, Hacubiya, Jerusalem To the End of Land, National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi, India Pillar of Cloud, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa Shaun Gladwell: 1000 Horses, Tel Aviv Museum of Art When the Jay Feeds the Cuckoo, The Apter Barrer Arts Center at Maalot 2017 Current Affairs, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Muza Eretz Israel Museum Tel-Aviv 2016 BENE•F•ACTION, Andera Meislin gallery, New York 2015 Wie wir leben (The Way We Live), Kunst Haus Wein, Austria

Disputed Landscape: Enacting Landscape, Camera-Austria, Graz, Austria On Remote Control 2; Lothringer13 Halle, Munich, Germany Scorpion Pass; Circle1, Berlin, Germany Sector 17, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna IL – Israeli Longing, Projektraum LOTTE, Stuttgart, Germany The Last Sea - Israeli Art and the Sea, Ashdod art Museum 2014 Journeys, The Israel Museum Jerusalem 2013 Collecting Dust in Contemporary Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2012 Silverstein Annual, Bruce Silverstein gallery, New York DB12 Volume 1 - The Dallas Biennial, Dick Higgins Gallery, Dallas USA Good Night, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem The city, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Video from Israel, the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York 2011 A Road to Nowhere, Ashdod Art museum, Monart Center Southern Spirits – Aspects of the in Contemporary Israel Art, The Negev Museum of Art, Beer Sheva 2010 What is the Political at the Museum of Bat Yam, Israel Photographs in conjunction with Traces IV - The Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Ticho House, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The Ministry of Culture and Sport's 2009 Awards for Art and Design, Herzliya Museum Shelf Life, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa Entanglement, Bezalel Academy Gallery, Tel Aviv Looking In, Looking Out: The Window in Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. In Detail, Haifa Museum of Art 2009 Art Tlv 09- The Tel Aviv Biennial, Universal Circus - City Performances Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London Time Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2008 Can Art Do More? Art Focus 5, 2008, Pavilion, Jerusalem Depletion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Eventually We’ll Die – Young Art in Israel of the Nineties, Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem Personal Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel, The American University Museum Washington 2007 Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York and Jewish Museum Berlin

Inside-Out, Contemporary Artists from Israel, MARCO - Museum of contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain. Engagement, Israeli Photography Now. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem The invisible snake show, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Omanut Haaretz, Tel Aviv Old Port 2006 OMAUT. arte in israele 1900-2006 Milano, Palazzo Reale, Italy Art of Living: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco USA 2005 Beyond Delirious Architecture: Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanels Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL The New Hebrews, Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin Such Stuff As Dream Are Made On Chelsea Art Museum, NY 2004 A Point Of View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Behind Faces, Galerie Martin Janda Vienna Monart museum, Ashdod 2003 Stranger-The 1st Triennial of Photography, ICP, New-York Fabula National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, England 2002 Multitude Artists Space, New York Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London Fragile Line, Um El Pahem Gallery 2001 Aspiration, RIFFE Gallery , Columbus, Ohio and Buenos Aires 2000 Contemporary Landscape, traveling exhibition, MOCA, Roskilde, Denmark & Trondheim Kunstferning, Oslo, Norway LISTE 2000, Basel, Switzerland 1999 Surveying the Landscape, Lombard/Freid Fine Art, New York 1998 Condition Report, Photography in Israel Today, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Habitation, Herzlyia Museum of Art 1997 Sight Seeing – A Topographical Reading: 19th Century British Photography from the Holyland / Contemporary Israeli Photography, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Department of Photography Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem 1996 Machines for Living :Architecture of Visibility, Columns House, Tel Aviv