Ron Amir Born in Israel, 1973 Lives and Works in Tel Aviv Education 2000-2003 Hamidrasha School of Fine Arts, Beit Berl College
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Ron Amir Born in Israel, 1973 Lives and works in Tel Aviv Education 2000-2003 Hamidrasha School of Fine Arts, Beit Berl College, Israel 1999-2000 Meimad School of Art, Israel 1991-1992 Oranim Art Institute, Israel Teaching Since 2011 Artist workshop, as part of "Sal Tarbut Artzi" program of the ministry of Education Since 2006 Hamidrasha School of Fine Arts, Beit Berl College, Israel 2010 - 2015 Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv 2009 - 2014 Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem 2005 - 2009 Jisr al-Zrqa High School, Israel Solo Exhibitions 2017 As It Seems, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv 2016 Doing Time in Holot, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Noam Gal 2014 Jisr al-Zarqa, Back-and-Forth part #1, Haifa Museum of Art, Jisr al-Zarqa, Back-and-Forth part #2, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon Jisr al-Zarqa, Back-and-Forth part #3, Jisr al-Zarqa High school. Curator: Gilad Melzer (cat.) 2013 Steel Wool, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ofra Harnam. 2012 Invisible Presence, Artists' Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Vered Zafran Gani 2011 Eid al-Fitr, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Boaz Arad 2009 Photographs, Dana Art Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai 2007 Barzach, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Doron Rabina 2006 Betwixt and Between, Weil Center, Kfar Shmaryahu. Curator: Ester Beck 2004 Sea/Land, The Israeli Art Gallery, Kibbutz Kabri Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 Under Arms. Fire and Forget 2, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt. Curators: Ellen Blumenstein and Daniel Tyradellis On the Edge, the Art Gallery, Sapir College. Curator: Maayan Sheleff 2015 Fire and Forget. On Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Curators: Ellen Blumenstein and Daniel Tyradellis The Hinder Sea, Ashdod Art Museum. Curators: Yuval Biton and Roni Cohen Binyamini The David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem. Curator: Nava T. Barazani Profiling, the Art Gallery, Sapir College. Curator: Maayan Amir 2014 Winners of the 2013 Ministry of Culture and Sport, Art and Design Award, Haifa Museum of Art. Curator: Orit Bulgaru 2013 What is to Become, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Etty Schwartz Yes minister, The Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Gilad Melzer Tattoos: Tattoo Representations in Contemporary Art, Senate Gallery, Art Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Curator: Yasmine Bergner and Haim Maor Lot's Wife: The Photogrphic Gaze, the Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai. Curator: Naama Haikin The Second Mediterranean Biennale in Sakhnin, Sakhnin. Curators: Belu Simion Fainaru and Avital Bar-Shay 2012 The Teacher Way, Amiad Center, Jaffa. Curator: Ayelet HaShachar Cohen Provenance, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ofra Harnam There are some Meatballs in the Fridge, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Boaz Arad 2011 Household, community art project, Kibbutz Orim and Kibbutz Beeri. Curator: Sari Golan Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Curator: Doron Rabina Numerator & Denominator, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Curators: Dalia Levin, Zali Gurevich and Tsibi Geva 2010 Neighbors, Körnerpark Gallery, Berlin. Curator: Reviva Regev 2009 29 km, Um el Fahem Gallery. Curator: Shlomit Bauman Winners of the Ministry of Education and Culture Awards, Ein Harod Museum of Art. Curator: Galia Bar Or Kol Israel Chaverim, The Social Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem. Curator: Dafna Ichilov Awakening Markets, Tmuna Thearter, Tel Aviv. Curator: Maayan Amir 2008 Meeting, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv. Panoramic Landscapes, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Curator: Dalia Levin The Large Plot, Agora Gallery, Jaffa. Curator: Sari Golan. 2007 The Other Sea, Jerusalem Artists House. Curators: Ktzia Alon, Dalia Markovich 2005 Power, Omanut Haaretz 4, Tel Aviv. Curator: Doron Rabina 2004 Sea/Land, joint exhibition with Amar Darbas, Israeli Art Gallery, Kibbutz Kabri. Curator: Drora Dekel Linked Vessels, Acco Art Festival. Curator: Drora Dekel Photographs, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Doron Rabina 2003 Grains, The City Museum, Haifa. Curator: Yehudit Mtzkel Photography Students Graduate Exhibition, the Open Photography Museum, Tel Chai. Curator: Naama Haikin Graduate Exhibition, Hamidrasha School of Fine Arts, Beit Berl College. 2002 Believe the Day Will Come, Um El Fachem Art Gallery and Rosenfield Gallery, Tel Aviv. Grants and Awards 2015 The Landau Fund Prize for Arts and Sciences 2014 Artport Residency Program, Tel Aviv 2013 Creative Encouragement Award, Ministry of Culture, Israel 2012 Artist-Resident Scholarship, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Culture, Israel 2008 Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Israel 2007 Rabinovich Foundation Scholarship, Tel Aviv 2005-2009 Artist-Teacher Scholarship, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Culture 2003 Excellence Award, Department of Photography, Hamidrasha School of Fine Arts, Beit Berl College Collections The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art Ashdod Art Museum Haifa Museum of Art Amos Schocken collection Serge Tiroche collection Israel Discount Bank Collection Private collections Bibliography Gilad Melzer (Ed.), Ron Amir: Jisr al-Zarqa, Back-and-Forth (catalog), Haifa Museum of Art and The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, 2013, 162 pp. (Hebrew, Arabic and English ; Essays by Sami al-Ali, Ruth Director and Eyal Danon, Vered Maimon, Gilad Melzer and Doron Rabina). Press Yonatan Amir, "12 Years of Documentation", Erev Rav, 4.3.14 [Hebrew] http://erev-rav.com/archives/28969 Vardit Gross, "Improvisation Committee", 7 Nights, 29.11.13 Galia Yahav, "Breaking the Wall", Haaretz, 8.11.13 [Hebrew] Yonatan Amir, "The Story of an Object", Time Out Tel Aviv, 2.8.12 [Hebrew] Hila Shkolnik-Brenner, "Root Canal", Achbar Ha'ir, 2.8.12 [Hebrew] http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.articles_item,417,209,69355,.aspx Galia Yahav, "Construction Workers Taking Pictures and Posing: An Intimate Project ", Haaretz, 19.2.12 [Hebrew] http://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/art/1.1666719 Uzi Tzur, "Brotherhood, Sisterhood", Haaretz, 19.2.12 [Hebrew] http://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/closeoneeye/1.1660017 Sagi Refael, "Last Standing", Erev Rav, 21.3.02 [Hebrew] http://erev-rav.com/archives/17535 Ron Amir, "Zion", artist feature edited by Moshe Ninio, Studio Israeli Art Magazine, Issue 173, May – June 2008 Michal Biletzki, "Haoman 17: Ron Amir", Walla, 18.1.2007 [Hebrew] http://e.walla.co.il/?w=/274/1043165 Liora Lopian, "The Guide for Life in the Village", Ha'ir, 5.1.2007 [Hebrew] .