Gili Avissar Lives and works in Tel Aviv [email protected] www.giliavissar.com
Education:
2007-2009 M.F.A Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, [cum laude], Jerusalem/Tel Aviv, IL 2003 Glasgow School of Art, UK 1999-2003 B.F.A Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, IL
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 (Upcoming) Situation, Parasite Art Platform, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, IL 2018 Schwarze Zunge, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, DE Work, Kostka Gallery, Prague, CZ 2017 Devils of Unreason, Galerie Koal, Berlin, DE Tender Cut, Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov Meuhad, IL 2016 Miklat, Artists Unlimited Galley, Bielefeld, DE 2015 Leviathan, Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL 2014 Resident, Kibbutz Be'eri Gallery, IL 2013 Wild Yellow, Parasite Art Platform, 22 Nachmani St., Tel Aviv, IL 2012 Urban Remains, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL 2011 In My Grandma's Closet, Kunstverein Leipzig, DE Parallel Lives, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Dusseldorf, DE 2010 Self Portrait with a Cat, Tel Aviv Artist's studios, IL Love Story, Duo-show with Ido Bar El, Hisin House, Tel Aviv, IL
Commissions and Large Scale Projects:
2019 Other Skies, Overall, Tower of David, Jerusalem, IL 2018 Other Skies, The Teder - Beit Romano, collaboration with the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, IL 2017 100 Abstract Flags, Mekudeshet Festival, Jerusalem, IL Simple Action, Stage Design and Costumes for Yasmeen Godder Dance Company, Bet Mandel, jaffa, IL Crookcrank, music video clip for the band Del Bel, editing by Jeremy Weinstein, CA 2016 Common Emotions, Stage Design and Masks for Yasmeen Godder Dance Company, Freiburg Theater, DE 2015 Abstract Flags, Meeting Point, Kunstverein Konstanz, DE 2013 Like a Tiger, music video clip for the band Avodot Afar, IL 2010 Medicament, Stage Design for Heidelberg Theater, DE
Selected Group Exhibitions and Video Screenings:
2019 Back to Artport, Artport Tel Aviv, IL OOH! Urban Video Art Festival, Varg e Vi, XK Personify, The Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida, US Amour, Tropez, Berlin 2018 My Art is My Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, RS Downfall, Loving Art Making Art, Tel Aviv, IL Miniment, Hansen House, Jerusalem, IL Moss Index vol. 1, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, US Erotic Salon, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Parallel Gallery, Toronto, CA 2017 8 Femme, Meet Factory, Ostrava, CZ Art Display, Falu Fängelse , Falun, SE Fabric/ ate, Schneidertempel, Istanbul, TR Body + Camera Festival, Mana Contemporary New Jersey, NJ, US Body + Camera Festival, Mana Contemporary Chicago, IL, US Non finito, Artport, Tel Aviv, IL More Love Hours than Can Ever Be Repaid (Ch. 1), Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL 2016 Traces V - The Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem Artists House, IL Muestra Marrana 8, Quito, EC Space/Time Art Platform, Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin, DE Beyond the Frame, The Kupferman collection Museum, Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot, IL Color Separation, Basis Gallery, Herzliya, IL 2015 STROBE Network, Flux Factory, NY, US In Different Place, Parasite Art Platform, Electra City Tower, Tel Aviv, IL Artist Film Screenings, KARST Contemporary Art Venue, Plymouth, UK Prima Facie, Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, IL Gatherer/Nonfunctional Display, Jerusalem Artists House, IL The Museum Presents Itself 2, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL 2014 Pink, Circle 1 Gallery, Berlin, DE Mon amie liamge, V-Kunst, Frankfurt, DE The Towering Inferno, The Babylon Trilogy Part.1, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL 2013 Marl Media Art Awards, Museum of Sculpture Glaskasten Marl, DE Other People's Problems: Conflicts and Paradoxes, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL STOFF Sammlung - Textile Skulpturen, Kreissparkasse Rottweil, DE The Winners, Ashdod Art Museum, IL 2012 Explorer, Contemporary by Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Under the Fluorescent Light, Tel Aviv Artist's studios, IL Ashes and Gold, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE 2012 The Bronner Residency, Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, DE Ashes and Gold, Marta Herford Museum, Hrford, DE 2011 The Second Strike, 3rd Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art, IL The Vault, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, US Video Kunst, Museum Goch, DE AD-DRESS, Jerusalem Artists House, IL Metakom, Kunstverein Kreis Gutersloh/ Raumordnung Krefeld, DE 2010 Shelf Life, Haifa Museum of Art, IL Hogwarts, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL 2009 100 Years of Dialogue through Art, Orangerie du Sen Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, FR The Answer is Within You, Substitut Gallery, Berlin, DE ART TLV, Tel Aviv-Yafo Biennial, IL The World is a Tissue of Lies, Kunsthalle Luzern, CH Wild Exaggeration, Haifa Museum of Art, IL Power Shows 04, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, TW 2008 Horse House Hat, VideoZone, 4th International Video Art Biennial, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL Videohilica 08, Biennial of Visual Arts, Varna, BG A4, Flock, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL /Glasgow School of Art, UK 2007 Traces 3 - The Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem Artists House, IL
Residencies, Workshops and Awards:
2019 Fountainhead, residency program, Miami, US Artis Residency Grant, NY, US 2018 Risk Change, residency program, Novi Sad, RS Art Colony Residency, Galicnik, MK 2017 Meet Factory, residency program, Prague, CZ The Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts grant, IL Artport TLV, residency program, Tel Aviv, IL 2016 The Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts grant, IL 2015 Artist Career Development Program, organized by Asylum Arts (US), Artis, and Artport (IL) 2013 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR 2010/12 The Rabinovich Art Foundation, Tel Aviv, IL 2012 Prize for Young Artists, Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport, IL 2011 Blumen Art Residency, Leipzig, DE 2010 Isracrard and Tel Aviv Museum Prize for Israeli Artist, IL Dusseldorf Residency Program, Kunststiftung NRW, Carry and Dan Bronner Foundation, Goethe Institute, Dusseldorf, DE 2008/9/10 Sharett Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, DE 2008 Award for Excellent Achievements, M.F.A program, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel-Aviv, IL Taipei Drift, International Workshop for Art Academies, Taipei, TW
Collections:
Haaretz Art Collection, IL The City of Konstanz, DE Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL Ashdod Art Museum, IL Nahum Gutman Museum, IL Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, IL Sammlung PHILARA, Düsseldorf, DE Elstein Collection, IL