ORIT HOFSHI Born 1959 in Kibbutz Matzuva, Israel Lives and works in Herzliya, Israel
Education 2002 M.A. University of Leeds, Bretton Hall College, Leeds, UK 1990 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1985 The Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design, Haifa, Israel
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2016 Beacon, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2015 Changing Perspectives: The Epoch of Space, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel Time out of Mind, Hoch+Partner, Leipzig, Germany 2013 Cessation, Shulamit Gallery, Venice, CA 2012 Pharos, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Jerusalem Print Workshop, Site Specific Installation, Jerusalem, Israel 2011 Resilience, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 2009 Ephemeral Passage, The Open Museum, Tefen and Omer Industrial Parks, Israel If the Tread is an Echo, Gallery 39, Tel Aviv, Israel 2008 The Road Not Taken, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA The Geography of Time, The Neri Bloomfied Academy of Design, Haifa, Israel 2006 The Disenchanted Forest, Anna Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Kairos, Braverman By Art Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel 2005 Datum Collectanea, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel; travelled to the Czech Republic 2006 2000 Orit Hofshi, Golconda Fine Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel Orit Hofshi, Stephan Gang Gallery, New York, NY 1996 New Artists’ Community Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, Israel 1994 Orit Hofshi, 479 Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Portraits of My People, The Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, Philadelphia, PA 1991 Orit Hofshi, 479 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 All that Remains, Artists House TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel 2015 Not Distant Land, contemporary art collection of the German Bundestag in the Reichstag Building, Berlin, Germany Impress, Druckgrafische Symposien des BBK Leipzig, Museum fur Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany Salon Hacubia 2015, The Cube Gallery, Hacubia Place for Art, Jerusalem, Israel 2014 Along the Lines of Imagination, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel This is Not a Dream, American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh, PA 2013 Traces V—Beyond Paper, The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jersalem, Israel
600 Washington Square South Philadelphia PA 19106 tel 215.629.1000 fax 215.629.3868 [email protected] www.locksgallery.com Print Time, Tefen Open Art Museum, Israel The Philadelphia Story, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC Souvenirs, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2012 Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Art Center, AK Encounters in Edward Munch’s Space, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel Login/Logout, Haifa City Museum, Haifa, Israel 2011 New on Paper: Recent Acquisitions in the Prints and Drawings Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Escape, The Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel Discount Bank Selected Print Portfolio, The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel Basis: Dialogue Between Cultures, Artists from Arab and Jewish Sectors, The House of Culture & Art, Nazareth, Israel 2010 Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA Matrika, The Kupferman House, Kibbutz Lohumel Ha’ghetaot, Israel Caught in the Thicket, IV Biennale for Drawing, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel Summer Surprised, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA Von Kaiserblau bis Luxissschwarz, Deutsche Bank, Leipzig, Germany 2009 Images from North Mayo, The Courthouse Gallery, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland Drawing Violence, 5 Place 4 Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2008 Leipziger Grafikbörse and Sächsisches Druckgrafik Symposion, Leipzig, Germany 2007 Traces III: The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel One and All, The Jerusalem Artists’ House and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Desert Generation: 40 Years of Occupation, 1967-2007, Ha’Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2006 Disengagement, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Land Escape: Art Visions Beyond Boundaries, Dot Fifty-one Gallery, Miami, FL 2005 On the Bank of the Yarkon, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel International Print Center, New York, NY 2003 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK International Print Center, New York, NY Kubus Städtische Galerie, Hanover, Germany 2002 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 2000 International Print Triennial, Krakow Poland (travelled to Nuremberg, Germany) 1998 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 1995 Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel 1992 USArtists, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Awards 2011 The William J. Cooper Foundation Grant: Cooper Series Excellence in Arts and Letters, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 2010 Jacob Pins Award for Distinguished Israeli Printmaking Artist, Israeli Museum of Art,
Hofshi CV page 2 Jerusalem, Israel Distinguished Alumni Award, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Philigrafika 2010: Invitational Signature Print, Philadelphia, PA Discount Bank Selected Print Portfolio, The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel 2008 Künstlerhaus Hohenossig Printmaking Residency, Leipzig, Germany 2006 Minister of Science and Culture Prize for Outstanding in Contemporary Israeli Art 2005 Art on Paper Award, 79th Annual International Competition in Printmaking, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA 1990 The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Alumni Award, Philadelphia, PA The Mayor’s Award, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1989 The William Emllen Cresson Travelling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA The Gundaker Foundation of Rotary Tuition Grant, West Chester, PA First Prize in Print Competition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Residencies and Lectures 2013 URRA Art Residency in Buenos Aires 2012 Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO 2011 Lecture/Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2010 Artist in Residence, USC, JA, LA/TA Partnership, Los Angeles, CA Lecture, Rosky School of Art at USC, Los Angeles, CA Lecture, Los Angeles Printmaking Association, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Fellow of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Residency in Ballycastle North Mayo, Ireland
Selected Collections The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle North Mayo, Ireland Paul J. Gutman Library, Philadelphia University, Phialdelphia, PA Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Israeli Art Collection, Discount Bank, Tel Aviv, Israel Israeli Art Collection, Leumi Bank, Tel Aviv, Israel Jerusalem Venture Partners, Jerusalem, Israel Kunstsammlung im Deutschen Bundestag in the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phiadelphia, PA Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel The Tefen Open Art Museum, Tefen, Israel Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
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