IGAEL SHEMTOV

Born in 1952, Lives and works in Binyamina

EDUCATION

1975-1978 The Neri Bloomfield College School of Design, 1977-1979 Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, 1979-1981 Hamidrasha Art Teachers Training College, Ramat Hasharon 1983-1985 M.F.A, Pratt Institute, New York, NY

TEACHING

Since 1979 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem 1980,1989,1992-1994 Camera Obscura School of Art, 1980-1982, 1987-1991 Hamidrasha Art Teachers Training College, Ramat Hasharon 1991-1994 The Naggar School of Photography, Media, & New Music, Musrara, Jerusalem 1993-1996 The Neri Bloomfield College School of Design, Haifa 1994-2000 Head of the Photography, Video and Computer Imaging Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem 1995-2002 Art Department, University of Haifa 1996-2000, 2002-2005 Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College,

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 The Photo Album 1979-1980, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY The Photo Album 1979-1980, The Camera Club, New York, NY 2009 Igael Shemtov: Six Early Works and One New, Dolinger Art Project Gallery, Tel Aviv Purposeless Functions, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park 2007 The Way to Heaven, Dollinger Art Project, Tel Aviv 2004 Low Landscape, Low Reality, Loushy Art and Editions, Tel Aviv 1997 Come Clean Yourself, Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv 1995 Tout passé, tout casse, tout lasse, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1985 Pratt Institute, New York 1979 Photographs in Tel Aviv, The Art Pavillion, Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 Drive-in: Israeli Photography in the 1980s, Art Museum 2013 Concrete Abstract, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv Lot’s Wife: The Photographic Gaze, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai 2010 City Slivers, The Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem Building A Place: The P6 Group and Critical Landscape Photography, The Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv 2009 P6 Photographers, Photography Department Gallery, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Beral, Kfar Saba The Light Show, The Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Nature Morte, D.D. Danon Gallery, Tel Avi 2008 What You See is What You Get, Dollinger Art Project Gallery, Tel Aviv Israeli Landscapes, Open University Capmus, Ra’anana 2007 Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; The Jewish Museum, Berlin Through the Object, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park Moods and Modes in Israeli Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Stills 07-08, Oranim Gallery, Oranim College Art Institute, Tivon 2006 Spatial Borders and Local Borders: A Photographic Discourse on Israeli Landscapes, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park Dynasty, School of Art, Sapir College, Haifa in the Eye of the Camera The First Half of the 20th Century, Haifa City Museum Regarding the Body, Photography Department Gallery, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Kfar Saba Art of Living: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Fransisco 2005 The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art The Family Trilogy, Photography Department Gallery, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Kfar Saba Etched Voices, Exhibitions Pavillion, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Picture Israel, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY Camera Sacra: Capturing the Soul of Nature, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2004 Current Visions: Inside Israel, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY Winners of the Minister of Education and Culture Award, Haifa Museum of Art Video Zero, Towards Cinema The First Generation of Projected Images, Haifa Museum of Art 2001 A Week Ago, on Monday, Yesterday, Ami Steinitz Gallery, Tel Aviv Artists from Bezalel, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA 2000 Between Mountain and Sea, The Municipal Museum, Haifa Time Frame: A Century of Photography in the Land of Israel, The Israel Museum,

Jerusalem 1997 Oh Mama: Representations of the Mother in Contemporary Israeli Art, Museum of Israeli Art, Art at the University, 1969-1997, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa Recipients of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation Creation Prizes, Bezalel Historic Building, Jerusalem 1996 New Art from an Ancient Land, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College, Salem, VA 1996 Contemporary Photography from the Israel Museum Collection, Passage de Retz Gallery, Paris Touches of Light, Studio Gallery, Ra’anana Contemporary Israeli Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1994 Art Focus, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1993 The Range of Realism, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv Back to Paradise, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv 1992 Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv Borochov Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1991 Israeli Photography, Biala LDK Gallery, Lublin; Stara Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Winners of the Minister if Education and Culture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1990 Photography from Israel, Burgtheater Gallery, Ratzeburg, The Museum as Collector, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1989 Warm Lights: Israeli Photography, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; traveling exhibition in Finland and Poland Rap Gallery, Tel Aviv Between Image and Object, Art Gallery, Oranim College, Tivon 1988 Moment Gallery, Hamburg 1986 The First Israeli Photography Biennale, Museum of Art, Ein Harod Liberman & Saul Gallery, New York 1983 Personal Vision, Jerusalem Theater Gallery, Jerusalem; Photography Gallery, Tel Aviv 1982 Video Art, Ahad Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv Paintings, Ahad Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv Here and Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Color Perceptions, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1981 Video Art, Ahad Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv Yellow Tape, The Israeli Fringe Theater Festival, Acre Winners of the Israel Museum Awards, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1980 Israeli Photography, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv 1979 New Acquisitions, 1978-1979, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1978 The White Gallery, Tel Aviv

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2005 The Constantiner Photography Award fir an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2003 Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Artists in the Field of Plastic Arts 1997 George & Janet Jaffin Prize, America-Israel Cultural Foundation 1991 Ministry of Education and Culture Encouragement Prize 1982 Ministry of Education and Culture Grant for Studies Abroad 1981 Enrique Kavlin Photography Prize, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Painting and Sculpture 1980 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Painting and Sculpture America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Studies in Israel 1979 Agfa Prize, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Photography Young Artist Award, Culture and Art Council, Ministry of Education and Culture 1978 The Rami Halperin Prize, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

COLLECTIONS

Tel Aviv Museum of Art The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Haifa Museum of Art The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park