Lives and works in New York
Education
2002-2004 MFA, Hunter College Art School, New York
1997-2000 BFA, Beit-Berel College - School of Art, Israel Magna Cum Laude
Solo Exhibitions
2012 The Sota Project, Fisher Museum of art at USC, Los Angeles
The Sota Project, Macro Museum, Rome, Italy
Special Effects, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NYC
2011 Public Notice, Ofri Cnaani and Cheryl Kaplan, BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC
The Sota Project, Rothschild 96, Tel Aviv
The Sota Project, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
Three Acts of Betrayal, lecture- performance by Ofri Cnaani and Hadas Cohen, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NYC
2010 The Vanishing Woman, Live-cinema performance at PS1/ MoMA(as part as
Greater New York performance program), NYC
Manja, The Bialik House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2009 Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums (10 sites in 10 different museums), Italy
Ofri Cnaani, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy
Tale of Ends, Le Poisson Rouge, New York
2007 Two Dimensional Days, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Decreation, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Death Bed, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2005 The Blind Scenario, Pack Gallery, Milan
The colonel and I, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2004 WE, MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York
The Sun Still Shines, Pack Galleria, Milan
2003 The Black & White Theater, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Art Focus 4, Jerusalem
Patrol, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya
2002 Ofri Cnaani – Dror Daum, Alon Segev gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 Waiting Room, Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibition
2012 The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society, Princeton University and Rutgers University
Marie –Laure Fleisch Gallery, Rome, Italy
Video works from Hamidrasha Art School, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Universita di Roma La Sapienza
Accelerating Toward Apocalypse, Works from Doron Sabag Art collection, ORS Ltd., Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv
2010 Handhald Histories, Queens Museum of Art, NYC
Longitude &Latitude, Tivon Art Gallery, Israel
Finzioni-videoracconti contemporanei, Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualinodi
Looking In, Looking Out,, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Rupture and Repair, The Adi Foundation and The Israel Museum, Artists' House, Jerusalem
Metamorphoses: Error, Ofri Cnaani, Tamar Halpern and Vlatka Horvat, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Ecstasy, The former convent of St. Cecilia’s P 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY
FORUM DES IMAGES, Nuit Blanche in Paris, Paris
The Situation, Moscow Biennial (special project)
Wild Exaggeration, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Fresh Fruits, Ten Haaf Project, Amsterdam
2008 Video Zone, The 4th International Video-Art Biennial in Israel
A Re-reading of the future, ITCA 2008 – International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery in Prague
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, Israel museum, Jerusalem
LOOP, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Mexico NewYork Paris, Estación Indianilla Centro cultural, Mexico City
2007 Playing with Solitude, Ursula Blickle Videolounge at the Kunsthalle Wein, Viena
Port-City, Arnolfini foundation Museum, Bristol, UK
Storytellers, Castello Dell’Acciaiolo, Scandicci, Italy
The Space Between, Petach Tikva Museum, Israel
Bat Yam Museum, Israel
Art and Urban Practices- New City-Territories. Venice, Italy
2006 Disengagement, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Floating Symmetry, Going Public '06- Atlante Mediterraneo, Nicosia, Cyprus
I Cant quite Place It, smack Mellon, Brooklyn , NYC
LOOP, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2005 AIM 25, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
ARCO 05, Madrid, Spain
2004 Going Public 04: maps, confines, new geographies, aMAZE cultural lab, Modena, Italy
Visionaries, Makor Art Center, New York
Video:1Min:1800 Frames, City without Walls, Newark, NJ
2003 Artik 5, American - Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, Ramat-Gan Museum, Ramat-Gan
2002 The Kiss, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2001 Action Express, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Graduate Exhibition, Beit Berel-College-School of Art - "Midrasha"
Artik 3, American - Israeli "Sharett" Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, University Gallery, Tel-Aviv
VideoTrip, Video Art Nightly Project, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Awards and fellowship
2007 HBI Research Award, Hadassah- Brandies institute, MA
Six Point Fellowship, NYC
2005 AIM – Artist In the Marketplace fellowship program at the Bronx museum
2003-2004 American Israeli Cultural Foundation Overseas graduate scholarship
2000- 2001 American Israeli Cultural Foundation
Beit Berel Certificates of Honor for artistic excellence
1999 The Germany Foundation Certificate of Honor for academic excellence
1998 Beit Berel Certificate of Honor for academic achievements.