CV Name: Orna Oryan I.D. 54557897 Year of Birth: 1956 Marital Status: Married + 3 Address: Bror- Hail, D.N. Hof Ashkelon, 79125, Phone: 972-8-6803251 / Mobile: 672-50-6722602 Email: [email protected] Website: ornaoryan.wordpress.com

Academic Education: 2009 – PhD of Culture – "The Feminine Abjection as a New Cultural - Artistic Language" guided by Prof Haviva Padia and Prof Avi Sagi. 2002- 2004 – "Culture and Commentary" studies – an integrated degree (second + third) – Bar Ilan Univ. 1997- 1999 – M.A. in Contemporary Art – Liverpool Univ. 1983-1984 – "History of Theater and Art" studies – Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1978-1981 - "Arts Integration in Creative Education" studies – Seminar Hakibbutzim, Tel Aviv.

Courses: 2009 - Groups guidance course (Resilience Center – Shaar Hanegev). Entrepreneur course developers (dolphins - Shaar Hanegev) 2008 – A tutorial at the International Women Center in Washington 2000- 2001 – a national course for selected arts at the Jerusalem Theater Group in the Feminine Empowerment field on behalf of Hadassah and Bar Ilan Univ. 1997- 1998 – Art studies, Art seminary of Beit Berl ("Kalmania"). 1992- 1994 – Sculpture Workshop, sculpting iron and clay - Dany Grossman, Jerusalem. 1986-1992 - Sculpture and Painting studies, in traditional techniques at workshops with artists in La Paz (Bolivia) and Bogota (Colombia). Work Experience: 2011 – Director of Creative Education Program at "Seminar Hakibbutzim" Academic College Tel –Aviv and lecturer. 2010- Lecturer at "Seminar Hakibbutzim" Academic College, Tel -Aviv-a course and workshop of Creative Education. 2008 – Lecturer at "Sapir" Academic College, within the department of "film and television" – a course and workshop of Contemporary Art. 1994- 2007- Lecturer at the " College", at the Program of television film photography and Sound Engineering – integrated courses and workshops of Body Theater, Movement, Painting and Sculpture. 2001 - present - personal and feminine empowerment workshops, by integrating Art, in Southern communities - Shaar Hanegev kibbutzim, , Gaza Strip evacuees, , Netivot, Kfar Ibim students, Beer Sheba, Heletz and Merhavim district council. Working with girls in need, posttraumatic women stressed and traumatized parents and teenagers. On behalf of the Ministry of Science, Labor and Social Welfare, JDC, Jewish Agency, Keren Shahar and local authorities. 2000 - Directing "Amcha" club in Ashkelon. 1999- 2000 – Lecturer of art history at "Knowledge" College in Rehovot. 1999 - Lecturer at Ridman College T.A, for Integrated Arts.

Academic conferences: 2012- Lecture on the The female Action - Seminar Hakibbutzim Academic College. 2012-The space in Haviva Pedaya book - Ben gurion University 2010 - Lecture on The chronology of Abjection of the female body- Sapir Forum Conference for discussion and culture research ,Sapir College. 2009 – Lecture on the Abjection arts ideology. Researchers workshop at Van Leer (Jerusalem) 2006 – Organize and initiate a conference on the Abjection in culture, through the Department of culture and interpretation of Bar Ilan Univ. The lecturers were doctors and Masters from Bar Ilan, Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Universities. Lecture at a conference on Feminine Abjection in contemporary art. 2004 – Organize, initiate and host a conference at Bar - Ilan Univ. on visual culture: The body is the body is the body.

Individual Exhibitions: 2013- Sapir College- “Sparkle dresses” 2012- A street with no name – Kosovo/Gracanica – Center of Alternative art and in Serbya/ Belgrad -Cultural center 2012- Sapir College- “Between sand and sea” 2011- Cinematec- Sederot- “Girl's Album” 2009 - Oz Gallery - - "My Father's Death" - Beery Gallery - "Fields of Fragments". 2007 - Berlin, Schwartzsche Villa Gallery Svartzhuilo - Retrospective - "Illuminated Memoirs ". Bat Yam Cultural Center - "white beads. Sderot hairdressing salon, Netivot Library - "Black Hair". 2003 - Beery Gallery - "Daughter of God". 2002 - Gross Gallery - Tel Aviv - "Right Rest". "Yad Lebanim Gallery" – Rehovot – "White Shreds" 2001 - "Anathea Gallery" – Jerusalem – "A Journey with my Mother" 2000 - Tel Aviv Artists Association - ditto. 1996 - Beery Gallery - Gallery Barry – "Chicken Coop". 1995 - "Kidmat Eden" Gallery (Tel Aviv) – "Coffins". Nofar Gallery - Tel Aviv - "Flies".

Sketch and the book idea "And I do not Have", published by Yedioth Ahronoth.

Collective Exhibitions: 2012 – Festival for international art and film- New-Delhi- The social circle. 2011- Kaye Academic College - Beer Sheva- "Selected works". 2010 – Gedera Museum, Gedera, - "Live – Woman". 2009 - Avenue, Trade Center - Selected works. Kaye Academic College - Beer Sheva – "Invectives Moan". Kfar Saba Municipal Gallery - "The Swan". Gan Shmuel Gallery - "The Anticipation". Neve Tzedek (International Women's Day) - "All in a Woman". 2008 - Alvarion - Tel Aviv - "chickens". Sapir College - "White Pearl". "Hi Tech" - Jerusalem - " Pumpkins Field". 2007 - Kibbutz Gallery - Tel Aviv - "Over and Beyond". 2002 - San Diego - USA – Selected works. 1999 - Kfar Menachem Museum - "Patchwork Blanket". 1998 - Ashdod Museum - "The Shed". 1997 – - "Set Table" - an outdoor installation. 1996 - Nahabir "Bedouin Ruins" - an outdoor installation. 1995 - Tower Gallery - Tel Aviv - "The Room". Tower Gallery - Tel Aviv - "Apples".

Additional Art Projects: 2012- Workshops for local artists in Center for Alternative Art in Kosovo- Gracanica 2005 - Umpire at the St. Artists Association at Nahalat Binyamin Street. 2005 - Participation in a delegation to Berlin. 2002 - Curator of photography exhibition of immigrant boys, within the Jewish agency. 1997 - Curator of Outdoor Statues at Dorot compound. Publications: 2013- book: Your blood - Resling publishing house. 2011- The Chronology of the Female Abject Body" in Of Cultural Change - Published by Sapir Academic College . 2010-" Matador of War: The intoxication of Passion and Terror" in Down Under -Published by Petach Tikva Museum of Art

2009 –A Moment" photograph – "Katse" newspaper 2009, edition 1,pg. 8. 2009 - Catalog in German of the exhibition in Berlin "Memoirs". 2007 - Text and photographs of works in the book "Tours in the Trail of Artists in Israel", published by "Modan"