ANISA ASHKAR
Born in Acre in 1979. Lives and works in Acre and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 “I Color Your Return with My Eyelashes, with the Golden Beams of the Sun”, City Hall Wall, Tel Aviv
Performance: 14 Stages of Love in the Arab Culture, Cité Internationale des Arts site at Villa Radet,
Montmartre, Paris
2018 “Homeland to the Poor and Patriotism to Whom!", Oranim Academic College
2017 “Black Gold”,The Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures, Beer Sheva
“Golden Surface”, Walled Off Hotel Gallery, Bethlehem
2016 “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”, The Lobby – Art Space, Tel Aviv
2015 “Proba 2”, Gabirol Gallery, Tel Aviv
“Take Care”, The Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba, Israel
2014 "Jouissance", N&N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 "New Works", Mane House, Tel Aviv
2012 "Anisa, Not All is Black", Beeri Gallery, Kibbutz Beeri, Israel
2011 "Save the Date: Today", Figyres International Festival, Spain
"Save the Date: Afternoon", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
"Save the Date: Tonight", Performance Biennale, Bamat Meizag, Tel Aviv
2010 "Zift", N&N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 "Mashkhara", Fresh Paint 2 –Art Fair, Tel Aviv, sponsor: Outset Contemporary Art Fund
2008 "Al Adham (The Black Horse)", Artists House, Tel Aviv 2007 "In a Twinkling of an Eye", Space Art Track 7, Athens
2006 "I Have Returned, Jaffa", Yaffa, Jaffa, Israel
"Hakol Katuv (All is Written)", Mishkanot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
2004 "Me and Klee Paint", Beit Berl College, Kalmaniya, Israel
"Ummi", Seraya – Arab-Jewish Theater, Jaffa, Israel
"The Frogwoman", Bamat Meizag – Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv
"Untitled (Barbur 24000)", Acre Theater
2003 "Barbur Aswad", Hagar Art Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 “Self Portrait, One Can Only Depict Oneself”, City Gallery Kfar Saba
“New Wing Launch”, The Third Space, A Place for Art and Education, Beit Hagefen. Haifa
2018 “Dionysian Life”, Ilana Goor Museum, Tel Aviv
2017 “Art School: Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts at Seventy”, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel
Aviv Museum of Art
2016 “The Winners: Ministry of Culture and Sport Prizes for 2015”, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
“Traces VI: The Return of Paper / Reflections on Drawing”, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
“The Identity of the Palestinian Artist”, Umm El-Fahem Gallery
2015 “Covers”, Kupferman's House, Lohamei HaGeta'ot, Israel
“Art Sale for Torture Survivors Program”, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv
“Houses beyond the Hyphen”, Zochrot, Jaffa, Israel
"Still, Dead", The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv
"Porcelain: The White Gold of Europe", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
"Art Book Fair", Artport, Tel Aviv
2014 "Chicago Triangle", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel "Manifestations of Letter", Umm El-Fahem Gallery, Israel
"Zaz Festival", Tel Aviv
"Ode to a Woman", Office in Tel Aviv Gallery
"Lebensraum", Artists House, Tel Aviv
"Profile is Aggression Too", Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 "Centrifuge", The Nathan Cummings Foundation in association with Artis, New York
"Voices From the Interior: Palestinian Women Artists", Mana Contemporary Gallery, in collaboration with Umm El-Fahem Gallery, New Jersey
"Effervescence", Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
"Sal Zriha", Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv
"Visual Scripts", Wilfried Israel Museum, HaZore'a Kibbutz, Israel
"Eye Territory", The DIAGHILEV, Tel Aviv
"We Connected", The Israeli Children's Museum, Holon, Israel
"Galilee Colors" a Contemporary Art Fair, Hatzor Haglilit, Israel
"Rosa Luxemburg, Yona the prophetess, Queen Lear", Haifa Museum, Israel
2012 "Memugadarot – Feminist Art and Theory", Gerstein Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Spring", MECA Contemporary Gallery, New Jersey
"Home/Place", Umm El-Fahem Gallery, Israel
"Bread and Roses 7", Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Memory and Immigration", Umm El-Fahem Gallery, Israel
2011 "Boydem Art Festival", Tel Aviv
"The Gordon Show", Loving Art. Making Art Festival, Tel Aviv
"According to Foreign Sources", Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
"Bread and Roses 6", Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 "Island" an ongoing performance project, Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel "Stroll", Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Bread and Roses 5", Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Estrangements", Hakita Gallery, Sapir College, Sderot, Israel
2009 "Women Creating Changes" (traveling exhibition), Museum of Modern Art Tallinn, Estonia
"Bread and Roses 4", Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Art Factory – The Launch", Art Factory, Bat Yam, Israel
"Home", Apart.Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Sotheby's Israeli and International Art Auction, New York
"Jennifer Bar Lev Hosting Anisa Ashkar", Tel Aviv Open Studios Festival
"Environmental Sensitivity", Menashe Forests Festival, Israel
"Black", the House of Culture and Art, Nazareth
"Bart.Art", P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Female Artists in Tel Aviv", Gallery 101, Tel Aviv
"Musrara Photography Festival", Jerusalem
"Compact Duo", Hankin Gallery, Holon, Israel
Wessling Gallery, Wessling and Munich, Germany
Beit Hagefen the Arab-Jewish Center, Haifa, Israel
Le Violon Bleu Gallery, Londo
2008 "Van Gogh in Tel Aviv", Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv
"Skin", Kastiel Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Occupied Space", Qattan Foundation, London
"Bread and Roses 3", Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Gallery Collection", N&N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Winners 2007", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
"Al Asbach (The White Horse)", Essel Museum, Vienna, Austria "Feminine Voice", Miskanot Ha'amanim, Holon, Israel
"Language and Gender", Artneuland Gallery, Berlin
"Afternoon", Andreas Brüning Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
2007 "Passing the Batonette", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
“Islands”, Instituto Italiano di Coltura, Haifa, Israel
"The Other Sea", Artists House, Jerusalem
"Portrait", Artneuland Gallery, Berlin
"This isn't Israeli Art", Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv
"Embroiders, Embroidery and Calligraphy in Israeli contemporary art",
Ben Gurion University, Israel
2006 "Partners", Holiday of the Holidays Festival, Haifa
"Identity of the Inner Monster", MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
"5th Reading Art Fair", Tel Aviv
"Urban or Rural", Beit Hagefen the Arab-Jewish Center, Haifa
"Black Coffee", Beit Hagefen the Arab-Jewish Center, Haifa, Israel
Apolonia, Strasbourg, France
2005 "Still the Palm Trees Are Green", Kodra, Salonica, Greece
"X Territory", the Municipal Gallery, Rehovot, Israel
"Play-Ground", Beit Hagefen the Arab-Jewish Center, Haifa
"Autobiography", Beit Berl College, Kalmaniya, Israel
2004 "Light & Shade", Beit Hagefen the Arab-Jewish Center, Haifa
"Connected Vessels", The Acco Festival of Alternative Theater, Acre, Israel
"Last Dance", Omanut Haaretz Festival, Power Station Compound, Tel Aviv
Education
2001-2004 B.Ed.FA, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel
1998-2000 Art studies, the Western Galilee College, Israel
Awards and Scholarships
2017 Artist in Community Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture
2016 Landau Prize for Arts and Sciences
Artist in Community Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture
2015 Ministry of Culture and Sports Prize for the Arts
2007 Young Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture
2006 Artist-Teacher Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture
2005 Artist-Teacher Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture
2004 Artistic Excellence Award, “Hamidrasha” school of art, Beit Berl College
Residencies
2019 Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2008 Guest Atelier, Kunsthuas Düsseldorf, Germany
Professional Art Instruction Experience
2004-2014 “Artist Encounters- Sal Tarbut”, special program by Israel's Ministry of Culture
2011-2013 Shenkar – Engineering, Design, Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
2010-2012 Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv
2005-2010 Special project guide, Tel Aviv Museum of Art