Elham Rokni
Education
2010 MFA, Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 BFA, Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Solo Exhibitions
2018 The Seven Abdulkarims, The Center for Contemporary Art CCA, Tel-Aviv
2016 Clavileño, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA The Wedding, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA Yousef-Abad, New Gallery in Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany
2014 Yousef-Abad, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 Untitled, The Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem Dot Full-Stop, Fresh Paint #6, Promising Artists Exhibition, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 Five frames per second, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
2010 Clavileño, Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel
Group Exhibitions
2018 Turn Back, Turn Back!, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Almost Home Between Saying and Leaving a Phantom Land, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island House of Wisdom, Dzialdov, Berlin Homelands, The Jerusalem Biennale, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 Until You Get Out of my Voice, Ashdod Art Museum, Binyamini Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Part II, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA Untitled, Livak Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2015 Uncommon Terrain, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Venice, CA 1980: The Primal Scene, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel NADA NY, Shulamit Nazarian, New York, NY MERCAZ, Rosenbach Contemporary Gallery, Jerusalem
2014 AQUA Miami, Shulamit Nazarian, Miami, FL
Potent Wilderness, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Until You Get Out Of My Voice, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel Traces, Beyond Paper, The Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Artist’s House, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel
2012 Light and Shadows, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Winners 2011, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel Behind Landscape, The H2 – Centre for Contemporary Art in the Glass Palace, Augsburg, Germany
2011 Search Engine, The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv, Israel Certified Copy, Beit Hageffen Gallery, Haifa, Israel The Secret Eight or the Enigma of the Haunted House, Hissin 27, Tel Aviv, Israel On the Road to Nowhere, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel Light and Shadows - The Story of Iran and the Jews, Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Down Under, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel MFA Final Exhibition, Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel In Between, Ashdod Art Museum, Israel GIGUK, Gießen VideoArt Festival, Germany PAM Festival, Senigallia, Italy Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest, Hungary Urban research on film, Berlin, Germany Indisplace, Gal-On Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Wola Festival, Warsaw, Poland ATA Film & Video Festival, San Francisco, CA Crosstalk Video Art festival, Budapest, Hungary
2008 ShortFilmFestival, Hamburg, Germany International Women's Film Festival, Rehovot, Israel Olimpolice Festival, Greece Love Art, Video-Art in Chen Blvd., Tel Aviv, Israel Nisuui Kelim #6, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Displacements ~ Immigration at a Young Age, MOBY, Bat Yam, Israel BFA Final Exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Awards
2017 Ostrovsky Family Fund Yehushua Rabinovich Tel-Aviv Foundation for the Arts, Art The Family Robert Weil Foundation
2015 Israel Lottery Foundation, Video Project Artist Grant Asylum Arts Grant
18th Street Art Center Residency, Santa Monica, CA Artis Contemporary Video Grant
2013 Israel Lottery Foundation, Catalogue Grant The Osnat Moses Prize for Young Painter Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize for an Israeli Artist
2012 The Igal Ahouvi Art Collection Promising Artist Award, Fresh Paint #5, Contemporary Art Fair, Tel Aviv, Israel Video Project Grant, Yehushua Rabinovich Tel-Aviv Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 Young Artist Prize, The Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport Artist-Teacher Scholarship, the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
2010 Young Artist Prize, Ashdod, Israel Grant for a Collaborative Video Project, The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) Excellence Award, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Award for Excellent Achievements, M.F.A program Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Excellence Award, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Culture, Jerusalem, Israel
Bibliography
2016 Sykes, Stephanie. Q & A with Elham Rokni, on Crossing the Dune, Unframed, LACMA. May 19 Artsy, Avishay. From Israel to Iran, the Art of Elham Rokni, Jewish Journal, Feb 25
2015 Soorinian, Lia. Artist Elham Rokni Explores Memory and Identity Politics, Art Report. Aug 16 Artists to Watch at NADA New York 2015, Artspace. May Steinhauer, Jillian. The 2015 NADA New York Art Fair in 25 Superlatives ,Hyperallergic, May 15 Yahav, Galia. What Would Freud Say About the Artists He Inspired?, Israel Culture Haaretz. Dec 24
2014 Evakirilof. The Bubble-List X, The Bubblist. Jan 30 Yousef-Abad, Exhibition Catalogue Dear █████ salam, Artist’s Book, Yousef-Abad project Broken camera, Yonatan Amir, Erev-Rav Jewish Journal, Exhibition Review A conversation with Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Erev-Rav Jewish Journal, Mar 28,
2013 Elham Rokni and Jonathan Vinitzky, Nobel Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2012, Haaretz, Feb 21
2011 Azoulay, Eli Armon. Studio visit, Haaretz. 2011