Uri Gershuni is an Israeli photographer and educator.
Uri Gershuni | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 1970 Raanana, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design |
| Known for | Photography, |
| Movement | Israeli art, modern art |
Biography
editUri Gershuni was born in Raanana in 1970. He is son of Israeli painter Moshe Gershuni and sculptor and jewelry designer Bianca Eshel Gershuni.[1][2]
Gershuni graduated from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design’s Photography Department, holding BFA and MFA. He teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and in WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education.[3] He works and lives in Tel Aviv.[4]
He was a photographer for Yedioth Ahronoth from 2003 and 2007. From 2009 he is a photographer for Haaretz.
Uri Gershuni works are in permanent collections of Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel Museum, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Shpilman Institute of Photography.[5][6][7][8]
He is gay.[9]
Exhibitions
editIsrael
edit| City | Venue | Type | Collection/Installation | Year(s) | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashdod | Ashdod Museum of Art | Group | A Road to Nowhere | 2011 | |
| Young Artist Awards | 2013 | ||||
| Bat Yam | David Ben-Ari Museum for Contemporary Art | Group | Sweet 16 | 2007 | |
| Beit Berl | Hmidrasha Art Gallery | Solo | "The Phantom Menace" | 2000 | |
| "Department" | 2006 | ||||
| Ha'midrasha Photography Gallery | "Yesterday's Sun, Photography Book No. 1" (Curator: Noa Ben-Shalom) | 2013 | |||
| Haifa | Haifa City Museum | Group | Between the Mountain and the Sea | 2000 | |
| Haifa Museum of Art | Solo | "I Have a Gigantic Electricity Bill Too" | 1999 | ||
| Group | Boys craft | 2007 | [10] | ||
| Haifa Museum of Art Collection: Dynasties | 2014 | ||||
| New Aggaf Gallery | Group | Be My Guest | 2013 | ||
| University of Haifa Gallery | Group | Home | 2003 | ||
| Click....grrrr... | 2008 | ||||
| Herzliya | Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art | Group | Behind Closed Doors | 2003 | |
| Eventually we'll die, young israeli art of the 90's | 2008 | ||||
| Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art: From Astonishment to Disenchantment | 2012 | ||||
| "In the Court of the White Lady" (Curator: Aya Lurie) | 2015 | [11] | |||
| Jerusalem | Israel Museum | Group | Books | 2005 | |
| The Homes of Others | 2008 | ||||
| Journeys (Curator: Kobi Ben Meir) | 2014 | ||||
| Solo | "Apollo and the Chimney Sweeper" (Curator: Noam Gal) | 2015 | [12] | ||
| Mishkenot Sha'ananim Gallery | Group | Streetwise | 2008 | ||
| Musrara School | Group | Youth | 2008 | ||
| Teachers (Curators: Avi Sabag and Ayelet Hashahar Cohen) | 2012 | ||||
| The Time Defined by Human Beings is But a Dream (Curator: Ilanit Konopny) | |||||
| The Wilderness My Brother Wanders (Curator: Eyal Ben Dov) | 2013 | ||||
| Kfar Saba | Kfar Saba City Gallery | Group | Culture Club (Curator: Hadassa Gorohovski) | 2012 | |
| Kiryat Tiv'on | Oranim Art Institute | Group | Mother | 2003 | |
| Stills | 2007 | ||||
| Machanayim | Machanyim Art Gallery | Solo | "Cruciferae Family" | 2001 | |
| Petach Tikva | Petach Tikva Museum | Group | After | 2006 | [13] |
| Ra'anana | Open University Gallery | Group | Sacred or Sacrilege? (Curator: Alec Mishory) | 2013 | |
| Ramat Gan | Ramat Gan Museum | Group | Ho mama | 1997 | |
| Minister of Culture Prize for Young Artist | 2001 | ||||
| Men | 2006 | ||||
| Ramleh | Ramleh City Gallery | Group | Snapshot | 2008 | |
| Rishon LeZion | Rishon LeZion City Gallery | Group | Sleep | 2007 | |
| Umm al-Fahm | Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery | Group | Fragile Line | 2002 | [14] |
| Tel Aviv | A.A. Silver Gallery | Group | Plastic Sheet | 2001 | |
| Art Israel Internet Biennial 2 | Group | Negotiation (Curator: Shalom Amira) | 2012 | [15] | |
| Artspace | Group | Portraits | 2004 | ||
| BAAD Gallery | Group | Random | 2012 | ||
| Baaley Hamelacha Gallery | Group | Net Games | 2010 | ||
| Bealey Melacha | Group | Noise | 2011 | ||
| Beir Ha'ir | Group | Night Stamp (Curator: Ayelet Bitan Shlonsky) | 2013 | ||
| Beit Meyuhas | Group | The End of the World (Galit Semel) | 2012 | ||
| Beit Reuven | Group | In those days | 2004 | ||
| Bezalel-Salame Gallery | Group | Flock | 2008 | ||
| Four Openings in Israeli Art | 2009 | ||||
| Casino Ayalon | 2011 | ||||
| Bineth Gallery | Group | Art Couture | 2010 | ||
| Binyamin Gallery | Group | What is to Become (Curator: Etty Schwartz) | 2013 | ||
| Braverman Gallery | Group | Reunion | 2004 | ||
| The Center for Contemporary Art | Group | Knitted Registry (Curator: Ruty Chinsky-Amity) | 2013 | ||
| Chelouche Gallery | Group | Re-location | 2010 | ||
| Solo | "Yesterday's Sun" | 2012 | |||
| Group | Time After Time | 2013 | |||
| Solo | "Nothing but Darkness" | 2015 | [16][17] | ||
| D&A Gallery | Group | Closer | 2007 | ||
| The Diaghilev | Group | Be My Guest | 2010 | ||
| Eretz Israel Museum | Group | Local Testimony 2013 (Curator: Moran Shoub) | 2013 | ||
| Feinberg Projects Gallery | Group | Surface Currents (Curator: Yham Hameiri) | 2013 | ||
| Gal-on-Gallery | Group | Z-B-A | 2009 | ||
| Hachalalit Gallery | Group | Self service | 2009 | ||
| Sex-sin | 2010 | ||||
| Statues | 2013 | ||||
| Hakibutz Gallery | Group | Desert Generation | 2007 | ||
| Hamidrasha Gallery | Group | Side Effect | 2003 | ||
| Haoman | Group | Passion | 2007 | ||
| Hatachana | Group | Industry | 2009 | ||
| HerzLilienblum Museum | Group | Israel Discount Bank Album No. 16. | 2013 | [18] | |
| Hilton Hotel | Group | Prologue | 1999 | ||
| Inga Gallery | Group | Men | 2009 | ||
| Solo | "Day and Night" | 2010 | |||
| "Eye Contact" | 2012 | ||||
| Jaffa | Group | Three Chambers | 2014 | ||
| Line 16 Gallery | Solo | "Decent Swinishness" | 2000 | ||
| Group | Utility Furniture | 2001 | |||
| Nehama Gallery | Group | Winter dreamers | 1997 | ||
| Photography Festival | Group | Black Box | 2012 | ||
| Port-house gallery | Group | Mama's Boy | 2008 | ||
| Riding Power Station | Group | Omanut Haaretz festival | 2005 | ||
| Rosenfled Gallery | Group | Power of Attraction | 2014 | ||
| Sadnaot Haomanim Gallery | Group | Non stop art | 2004 | ||
| Solo | ""Dark Ages" | 2005 | |||
| Shpilman Institute of Photography | Group | The Double Exposure Project (Curators: Aya Lurie, Orit Bulgaru, and Anat Ascher) | 2014 | ||
| Sotheby's | Group | Emerging Artists | 1999 | ||
| Spaceship at Hayarkon 70 | Group | The Beauty of Mistake | 2011 | ||
| Objects (Curator: Daniel Tsal) | 2012 | [19] | |||
| Camera obscura (Curator: Hila Cohen Schneiderman) | [20] | ||||
| Tavi Art Gallery | Group | Relocation | 2010 | ||
| Tel Aviv Artists House | Group | My Beloved Pornography | 2007 | ||
| Public Garden | |||||
| Ethics - Esthetics | 2009 | ||||
| Human Landscape | 2011 | ||||
| A Piece of Cake | |||||
| Tel Aviv Museum of Art | Group | Rose ce'st la vie | 2004 | ||
| Living Room | 2010 | [21] | |||
| Solo | "Selective Mutism" | 2011 | |||
| Tmuna gallery | Group | It is Not Israeli Art | 2007 | ||
| The Secret Viewer | 2008 | ||||
| Zaritisky Artists' House | Group | Remembering Boaz Tal (Curator: Sorin Heller) | 2012 | ||
| Local Pulse (Curators: Orly Hoffman and Arie Berkovich) | 2013 | ||||
| Ziz Art Space | Group | Ziz Prints | 2014 | ||
| Yad Mordechai | Dana Gallery | Group | Different Place (Curator: Ravit Harari) | 2012 |
Worldwide
edit| Country | City | Venue | Type | Collection/Installation | Year(s) | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Photorial Festival | Group | City Space | 2007 | |
| England | London | The Gallery Soho | Group | Freedom of Expression - True Colors | 2011 | |
| 100 Years Gallery | Group | The First Day | 2013 | |||
| Manchester | The CUBE Gallery | Group | Freedom of Expression - True Colors | 2011 | ||
| France | Marseille | Marseille Art Centre | Group | Marshim | 2004 | |
| Germany | Berlin | Artneuland Gallery | Group | Portraits | 2007 | |
| Axel Springer | Solo | "Yad" | 2007 | |||
| Volume Gallery | Solo | "Publish" | 2013 | |||
| Dusseldorf | Galerie Voss | Group | Lost Scapes | 2015 | ||
| Russia | Moscow | Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod | Group | Calm Before the Storm | 2010 | |
| Switzerland | Bellinzona | MACT/CACT Museum and Centre for Contemporary Art | Group | Deep Inside. Dissociations (Curator: Mario Casanova) | 2012 | |
| The Solitary Body: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Photography | 2013 | |||||
| United States | New York City | Cooper Union | Group | Chosen graduates | 1997 |
Curatorial projects
edit- 2010 Sofia, Solo Exhibition of Bianca Eshel Gershuni, Inga gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2011 Hatima Tova, Group Exhibition, Inga gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2012 Incident Light, solo exhibition of Sasha Flit, Indie Gallery[22]
- 2013 Big Yekatherina, solo exhibition of Valery Bikovsky, part of the exhibition Art's Outer Circles, Haifa Museum of Art
- 2014 Horror Movie, group exhibition, the International Photography Festival, Rishon LeZion
- 2014 Nehushtan, group exhibition, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Awards
edit- 1995 - Special presidential grant for excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
- 2000 - Minister of education and culture award for young Israeli artist
- 2005 - Young photographers award on behalf of Haifa Museum of Art
- 2007 - Heskia Hacmun award[23]
- 2012 - Israel's Minister of Culture ‘Art Encouragement’ Award
Gallery
edit-
Blue Hour 2014 -
2010 -
2009
References
edit- ^ "A Total Mother, a Total Artist". Haaretz. 26 July 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Ariel Reichman meets artist Uri Gershuni in Tel Aviv. – ArtBerlin.de". Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Uri Gershuni - the SIP". www.thesip.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "Imago Mundi – Bambi by Uri Gershuni". Imago Mundi. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Uri Gershuni". Widewalls. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Press Room 2013". www.english.imjnet.org.il. Archived from the original on 7 March 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "6 Artists 6 Projects: Exhibition of New Works by Leading Israeli Contemporary Artists". diplomacy.co.il. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "They have built Jerusalem – Christie's". Christies.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "3 LGBT Israeli Artists You Should Know". June 2015.
- ^ "Haifa museums - HAIFA MUSEUM OF ART-EXHIBITIONS-Past-2007-Nov. 3,07 …". Archived from the original on 22 April 2015.
- ^ "Uri Gershuni – In the Court of the White Lady". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
- ^ "Israel Museum, Jerusalem – Exhibitions". Museum.imj.org.il. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "(After), מוזיאון פתח תקוה לאמנות". Petachtikvamuseum.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Umm El Fahem Gallery". Umm El Fahem Gallery. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Uri Gershuni at Art Israel Internet Biennial 2". Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art. 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ Niv, Tal (21 February 2015). "Snapshot: Uri Gershuni's Quantum Leap". Haaretz. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Uri Gershuni – Nothing but Darkness – Opening: 12.02.2015". Wherevent.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Uri Gershuni at Israel Discoutnt Bank Album No. 16". Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art. 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "Uri Gershuni at the Spaceship at Hayarkon 70, Tel Aviv". Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art. 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ Niv, Tal (31 May 2012). "Talbot Revisited: Uri Gershuni Reconstructs the First Ever Photograph". Haaretz. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "LIVING ROOM – סלון – Tel Aviv Museum of Art". Tamuseum.org.il. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Indie – Past Exhibitions – Sasha Flit – Incident Light". Galleryindie.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Heskia – Hacmun Law Firm Tel Aviv Israel". Hh-law.co.il. Retrieved 22 December 2018.