A N D R E A M E I S L I N G A L L E R Y

LEORA LAOR Born 1952 Lives and works in Jerusalem

EDUCATION 1996 Graphic Design Department, Ministry of Labour, 1981 Photography Department, The New School, New York, NY 1979-1980 Photography Department, School Of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1973-1977 BFA, Section of Film and Television, University, Israel

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 Wanderland #2, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY Leora Laor: Images of Light, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, MO Wanderland: Works by Leora Laor, The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, The JCC in Manhattan, New York, NY

2005 Leora Laor: Image of Light, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL Leora Laor, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2004 ParisPhoto, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France Wanderland, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY

1984 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY

1983 Oggi Domani Gallery, New York, NY Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Of Women’s Modesty and Anger, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium

2009 Tel Aviv Time, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

2008 Realite passee, Realite presente, Hagalleria, Paris Dateline Israel: Recent Photography and Video, The Jewish Museum of Maryland Dateline Israel: Recent Photography and Video, The Jewish Museum, Berlin

2007 Romantic Perspectives in Contemporary Israeli Photography, Gallery for Experimental Art and Architecture, Technion, Haifa Bare Life, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem Moods and Modes in Israeli Photography, work from the collection gift of Leon and Michael

526 W 26TH ST # 214 | NYC NY 10001 | TEL. 212. 627. 2552 | FAX. 212. 627. 1216 | WWW.ANDREAMEISLIN.COM Constantiner, The Tel-Aviv Museum Dateline Israel: Recent Photography and Video, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Current Visions: Inside Israel (Part 2), Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Laterna Magica: Metaphysical Light in Israeli Photography, Bat Yam Museum of Art, Bat Yam, Israel Wanderland, Museum Haus Lange, The Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany Shadows and Silhouettes, The Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel

2005 Recent Acquisitions / Nieuwe Anwinsten, Museum of Photography, The Hague The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist: Pavel Wolberg, Leora Laor, Igael Shemtov, Tel Aviv Musuem of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Lights, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Chaim-Life: Israel through the Photographer’s Lens, The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, The JCC in Manhattan, New York, NY Fotografia Israellana Contemporana, Hendrik C. Anderson, Rome, Italy Luca Pagliari and Others, After Hopper, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

2004 'Etude pour un Premier Amour' Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Water Water Everywhere, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY Current Visions: Inside Israel, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY

2000 Saying Hello, Gallery for Peace, Center for Arts, Givat-Haviva, Israel

1999 Illusions, New Art Workshop, Ramat Eliyahu, Tel Aviv, Israel

1993 Alef Beth Bgimel, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1989 Alef Alef Bgimel, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1988 Three-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Achad Ha’am Gallery, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Photographs From The Museum’s Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1984 Landscapes And Mindscapes, The American Cultural Center in conjunction with Gallery Contretype, Brussels, Belgium Summer Group Show, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY H2O, Curated by The Art Advisory Service Association Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Photo Limbo, Limbo Lounge, New York, NY Just Appearances, New Math Gallery, New York, NY Limbo, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, NY New Galleries In The East Village, Artists’ Space, New York, NY Contemporary Israeli Photography, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, NY Photographs from the Museum Collection; Highlight of the Museum Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1983 Terminal, NYC Photo-Vision 83’, Foto Gallery, New York, NY Group Preview, Oggi Domani, New York, NY Variations, Caidoz Gallery, New York, NY The Ritz, Collaborative Projects Inc., Washington D.C. 7 Days Of Creation, ABC – No Rio, New York, NY

1982 Pinko, West-Beth Painters Space, New York, NY Salmagundi First Annual Photography & Sculpture Exhibition, New York, NY Photography Show, Foto Gallery, New York, NY

1981 Stephen Rose Gallery, Boston, MA

BIBLIOGRAPHY 2007 Bare Life: The Museum on the Seam, Coexistence Art Museum, pp. 32-33 Dezeuze, “Wall of Silence, on art and the climate of censorship that bedevils relations between the US, Gilerman, Dana. “Cameras Follow us,” Ha’aretz, Gallery, October 11, 2007, pp. 4 Heller, Fran. “Exhibit at Jewish Museum Captures Israel’s Pulse,” Cleveland Jewish Press (online), July. The New Yorker, Jewish Museum : Dateline Israel – Review, July 23, 2007 McBee, Richard. “Dateline:Israel at the Jewish Museum”, The Jewish Press, July 2 Moodes and Modes in Israeli Photography Catalogue, Publication Israel and the Palestinians”, Art Monthly, June, Issue No. 307 Grosz, David. "Conflict in High Resolution," The New York Sun, March 15 Ronnen, Meir. “Israeli Art Invades New York”, The Jerusalem Post, Arts & Culture, February 26. ARTnews, New York Reviews, February, p. 137 Bennette, John A. “Trends in Collecting Photography,” Focus, February, pp. 39-40 Novak, Alex. “Photography News”, E-Photo Newsletter, Issue 119, January 3.

2006 Dateline Israel, The Jewish Museum, New York, Yale University Press, 2006 pp. x, 15, 36, 74-75 Ausstellung Wanderland : Israel – Palestina, Westdeutsche Zeitung Newsline, November 17. Time Out New York, November 16-22, Issue 581 The New Yorker, November 13 Mendelson, Amitai. “The Revival of Beauty by Contemporary Israeli Artists, Bezalel,” Proceeding of History and Theory, Vol. 3, October Imdahl, George. “The Common Language is Missing”, Kolner Stadt-anzeiger, October 28. “Leora Laor”, The New York Sun, October 23, p. 12. Herschthal, Eric. “Shooting Without Violence,” The Jewish Week, October 21, pp. 54-55 Mendelson, Amitai. Bezalel, Issue #3 “Leora Laor,” The Jewish Week, October 13, p. 42 Jaffe-schagen, Judy. “Eerbetoon aan geluk,” Levend Joods Geloof, July, pp. 16-17 “Leora Laor,” Riverfront Times, St. Louis, March 13-22, p. 21

2005 “Photos from a Distance,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Everyday, Section E, March 15 Louria-Hayon, Adi. “Objects of Desire,” Afterimage, Issue 33.3, The Journal of Media, Art and Cultural Criticism, Rochester, NY, pp. 44-45 Louria-Hayon, Adi. Bezalel, Issue #1, November Artner, Alan G. “Images Extract Visions from the Commonplace,” Chicago Tribune, October 21 Adler, Tony. “Now You See It, Now You Don’t,” Chicago Reader, Section 1, October 7 “Laor Photos Explore ‘Image of Light,’” Chicago Sun-Times, September 23 Tzur, Uzi. “Leora Laor, Photographs, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv,” Ha’aretz, Literature and Cultures Sheffi, Smadar. “melancholia with fish,” Ha’aretz, Gallery, September 14, p. 3d Louria-Hayon, Adi. “Fotografia Israeliana contemporana,” Roma Casgar, Amanda. “Chelsea Galleries Provide Diversity at Every Turn,” Art Business News Von Seckendorff, Klaus. “Exposure,” BMW Magazine (Australia), February

2004 The New York Sun, December 15, p. 12 Aletti, Vince. “Image Bank,” Village Voice, November 30 Demir, Anaid. ”La fait sa foire,” Les Journal des Arts, Numero 202, Du 5 au 18 novembre, pp. 14-15 Menkes, Suzy. “At Paris Photo, A Focus on the Power of Women,” Herald Tribune, November 9, p. 11 Cowgill, Erin. “New – Paris Photo 2004,” Artnet.com Magazine Radescu, Eugen. “Paris Photo 2004,” artphoto, contemporary art magazine, Issue #6-7,printed edition Hanworker, Haim. “Bar-Yam Jaffa border in New York,” , Galleria, Sep. 29, p. d4 Meislin, Andrea. “Current Visions: Inside Israel,” NY ARTS Vol. 9 N. 3/4 Mar/Apr “Wonder as she Wanders,” The New York Sun, February 27-29, p. 15

1989 Sgan-Cohen, Michael. “The Israeli Artists in New York, The 80's,” Dec. 1 (not published)

1986 “In an Underground Atmosphere, 3 Years' anniversary to Ahad Ha'am 90 Gallery in the basement of Dizengoff Center,” Tel Aviv, Yedioth Aharonot

1984 Sgan-Cohen, Michael. "Between New York and Jerusalem,” Kav, June pp. 64-76 Robinson, Walter and Carlo McCormick. "Searching Towards Ave. D,” Art in America, Summer, pp. 135-160

1983 Baruch, Adam and Leora Laor. "New York, Now,” Eye Contact, Yedioth Aharonot, Dec. 9, p. 23 McCormick, Carlo. “Leora Laor, New York Beat,” New York's Cultural Newspaper, Vol.1, No. 3, December McDarrah, Fred. “Leora Laor,” The Village Voice, Nov. 29, p. 77 McDarrah, Fred. "Six Photographs," The Village Voice, Sept. 20, p. 66

AWARDS 2005 Leon Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist

COLLECTIONS The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, NY Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Netherlands Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Coca-Cola Corporation Colgate-Palmolive Company IBM Corporation Jordache Enterprises, New York, NY McDonald’s Corporation Smart Foundation Time for Art, Tel Aviv, Israel