Reuven Israel
b. 1978, Jerusalem
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Tel Aviv, Israel
Education
2007 MFA (cum laude), Advanced Studies Program in Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 BFA (cum laude), Department of Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Offshoot, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 In Four Acts, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
2016 As Above, So Below, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA FORMULA, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Multipolarity, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY Artist Spotlight: Reuven Israel, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
2011 Superpartners, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Fatima, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel From Shapes to Forms, Museo Civico Floriano Bodini, Gemonio, Italy
2009 Range of Sorrow, Montrasio Gallery, Milan, Italy
2006 Reuven Israel, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Group Exhibitions
2020 The Promise: Artists to Benefit CCA Tel Aviv, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2019 Crossing Lines, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
2018 Twist, fused space, San Francisco, CA
2017 Flair, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY Same Same But Different, Works from Haaretz collection, Minus1 Gallery, Tel Aviv Untitled, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2016 BENE•F•ACTION, Andrea Meislin, New York, NY
2015 The Museum Imagined, Danese/Corey Gallery, New York Re:Start, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel The Museum Presents Itself, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Domestic Ideals, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
2014 Science/fiction, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL Paper Weight, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Recent & Relevant Rudy Cremonini/Reuven Israel, Spazio 522, New York, NY
2013 No Place, BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel The Readymade Centennial, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel Human Nature, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel Tracing the Fish Bladder, Radiator Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Re:Visiting Rockefeller, Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2011 Senses of the Mediterranean, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy Group Show, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Locomotion, 121 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 The Ministry of Culture and Sport’s 2009 Awards, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel Il Segreto Dello Sguardo, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy
2009 What Does Sculpture Want? Bezalel Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Collection of Dr Raymond Azibert, Espace Croix-Baragnon, Toulouse, France Harlem State of Mind, Museo Civico Floriano Bodini, Gemonio, Italy
2008 Once Upon a Time, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel In Silence, by Rothschild 69, Tel Aviv, Israel High Speed Smooth Movements, Harlem Studio Fellowship, New York, NY 2007 Young Israeli Art: Recipients of the Legacy Heritage Fund Prize, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Somewhere Better Than This Place, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Flat, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel Forms of Construction, Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow, Ireland Salame 007., Bezalael Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel Raw & Cooked, Haifa University Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2005 Artic 7, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel Favorite, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Three Bezalel Graduates, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Art Fairs
2017 Wendell Gladstone and Reuven Israel, Art Brussels (with Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles)
2016 Reuven Israel and Fay Ray, UNTITLED (with Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles), Miami, FL
Awards
2009 Young Artist Prize, Ministry of Culture and Sport, Israel
2008 Harlem Studio Fellowship, Residency Program for International Artists
2007 The Legacy Heritage Fund Prize, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
2006 The Rich Foundation Award
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship
2005 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship 2004 Prize in memory of Ehud Elhananani, Department of Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Selected Bibliography
2021 Mishal, Yonatan H, Signals from the Studio…Artist Reuven Israel on the Sum of Possibilities. Artis Artist Interviews (Podcast: http://artis.art/2021/01/29/signals-studio- artist-reuven-israel-sum-possibilities/), February 1
2017 Shankar, Avantika, 145 art galleries to discover at this year’s Art Brussels, Architectural Digest, Apr 20
2016 Gottschalk, Molly. The 13 Best Booths at UNTITLED, Miami Beach, Artsy, Nov 30 Hicklin, Aaron. Reuven Israel’s Future Perfect Showing at LA’s Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, BlackBook, Nov 6 Frank, Peter. Reuven Israel: As Above, So Below and Phillip Maisel: Habitat, Fabrik, Issue 33. Sep 30 Jansen, Charlotte. Alien objects: Reuven Israel displays his new sculptures at Shulamit Nazarian, Wallpaper*, Sep 21 Roberts, Alison, Reuven Israel, Telavivian Magazine, Mar 24 Haaretz, Mar 24 ,האמן שבונה עצים מתחפשים
2014 Gregory Volk, Graham Harman. Reuven Israel, Multipolarity, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY Zises, Heather, Reuven Israel, Multipolarity, Fjords, Dec 4
2011 Ellen Ginton, Anat Danon-Sivan. Reuven Israel, Superpartners, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Raffaele Bedarida, Matteo Galbiati, Reuven Israel, Range of Sorrow, Montrasio Arte, Milan, Italy
2007 McKee, Francis. “On Reuven Israel's Work,” Young Israeli Art (Recipients of the Legacy Heritage Fund Prize), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel