Sharon Ya'ari

Sharon Ya'ari

SHARON YA’ARI
Born in Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv

EDUCATION
1998 - 2002 MPhil, Derby University, Faculty of Art, Design and Technology, IL
1990 - 1994 BFA, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem, IL
1989 - 1990 Studied Philosophy and General Studies, Tel-Aviv University

TEACHING
2002 - 2012 Senior Lecturer, Master’s Degree Program in Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, IL
2000 - 2012 Lecturer, Art Dept., Faculty of Humanities, University of Haifa, IL
1994 - 2012 Senior Lecturer, Photography Dept., Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, IL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL

2012
Expectancy, Galleria Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria

2011
Jerusalem Blvd. II, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH

2009
Jerusalem Blvd., Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Galleria Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria

2006
Hope for long distance photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL

2003
Dust, Lombard/Fried Fine Art, New York, NY

2002
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
Drexler University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Project Room Arco, Madrid, Spain

2001
Last Year, Lombard/Freid Fine Art, New York, NY

2000
Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL

1999
Color Works, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, IL

1996
Boxes in the Garden, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Video from Israel, Neuberger Museum of Art, NY

2012
A Prayer is a Prayer is a Prayer, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
The City Show, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Silverstein Annual, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
Good Night, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Southern Spirits-Aspects of the Negev in Contemporary Israel Art, The Negev Museum of Art, Beer Sheva, IL

2010
What is the Political, Museum of Bat Yam, Israel
Photographs in Conjunction with “Traces IV” – The Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Ticho House, Israel Museum, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Looking In, Looking Out: The Window in Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL

2009
Circus-City Performances, Art Tlv 09 – The Tel Aviv Biennial, Universal
Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

2008
Can Art do More? Art Focus 5, Pavilion, Jerusalem, IL
Depletion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Eventually We’ll Die – Young Art in Israel of the Nineties, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Personal Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel, The American University Museum Washington
Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York
Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
Inside-Out, Contemporary Artists from Israel, MARCO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain.
Omanut Haaretz, Tel Aviv Old Port.

2007
OMAUT. arte in israele 1900-2006, Milano, Palazzo Reale, Italy.
Art of Living: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Beyond Delirious Architecture: Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanels Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL

2005
The New Hebrews, Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin, Germany
Such Stuff As Dream Are Made On, Chelsea Art Museum, NY

2004
A Point Of View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL

2003
Stranger, The 1st Triennial of Photography, ICP, New York, NY
Fabula, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, England

AWARDS
2010 Constantiner Photography Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2009 The Encouragement Prize, Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport
2005 The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize
2004 Janet Gaphin Award, America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award
2000 Recipient of the Minister of Culture and Science Prize, Israel
1999 Gerard Levi Prize, Young Photographer’s Prize, The Israel Museum,
1997 Young Artist Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture
1996 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award