Ishay Orit

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Born in 1961, Tel Aviv
Lives and creates in Tel Aviv in the fields of Stills Photography, Video Art, and Neon installation
Senior Lecturer of photography at the Sapir Academic College, School of Art
 
Education
2012 Post Graduate Fine Arts Program, Ha’midrasha Faculty of the Art, Beit Berl Academic College, IL (cum laude)
2007 B.Ed, David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem, IL (cum laude)
2006 Naggar School of Photography, Photography Department, Media & New Music in Musrara, Jerusalem, IL (cum laude)
 
Workshops (2010-2012)
Video workshop with Hito Steyerl
Interruptive Communities, Mass & Art Critique with Jan Verwoert
Contemporary Art, Reading Art with Anri Sala
Memory and the Object & the Joy of Becoming a Machine with Jan Verwoert
Short Video Shooting, active video workshop with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann
 
Solo Shows
2021 A Fingernail in the Eye of The Sun, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv, curator: Avi Lubin
2021 Tarnished Gold, Artist Wall, Art Cube Artists' Studios Jerusalem, IL, curator: Dveer Shaked
2019 Golden Ring, Art Cube Artists' Studios Jerusalem, IL, curator: Dveer Shaked
2019 Someone Has Been Sleeping In My Bed, Philomena+, Vienna, AU, curator: Basak Senova
2018 There Is a Lion Across The River, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, RO, curator: Cristina Stoenescu
2018 Land Stand!, Dana Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, IL, curator: Ravit Harari
2017 Deer Country, Prague City Gallery House of Photography, CZ, curator: Dalia Levin (Booklet)
2015 Half Moon Half Sun, Art Cube Artists' Studios Gallery Jerusalem, IL, curator: Avi Lubin (Catalogue)
2015 Public Domain, Shelters, Senate Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IL, curator: Prof. Haim Maor (Catalogue)
2014 Terribly Pretty, Awfully Beautiful, Ha'Kibbutz Gallery Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Yael Keini
2014 Way 2 Way, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Raz Samira (Booklet)
2013 Fire Zone, Tichonet Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Raz Samira
2012 1917 (as a part of Attributes exhibition) MoBY - Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, IL, curator: Barak Ravitz (Catalogue)
2011 Lucky Numbers, Kaye Gallery for the Arts, Kaye College, Be’er Sheva, IL, curator: Israel Rabinovitz (Catalogue)
2010 Lucky Numbers, the Gallery in Kibbutz Bee’ri, IL, curator: Ziva Yellin (Catlogue)
2010 Public Domain - Seven Boom, the Gallery on the Cliff, Netanya, IL, curator: Monica Lavi
2009 Public Domain, TheHeder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Rona Sela (Catalogue)
2008 Fire Zone, the Gallery in Kibbutz Nachshon, IL, curator: Yael Keini
2008 Blocked, the Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Judith Matzkel
2007 Regarding Pilgrims, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, RU, curator: Chris Schwarz
2006 Regarding Pilgrims, Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, PL, curator: Chris Schwarz
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 In Search of Lost Memory, Museum Bar-David of Arts, kibbutz Baram, IL, curator: Sorin Heller
2022 Israel Video Art, film festival, Gallery on the Water Noass art center, Riga, Latvia, curator: Drorit Gur-Arie
2022 Blazing Sun, Art Space TLV, Contemporaray art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Shira Friedman
2022 Playground, Trumpeldor Gallery, Art Center Beer-Sheva, curator: Dr. Maayan Amir & Graduates of the curatorial course
for BA degree in Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2021 Image Fantome, Anca Poterasu Gallery Bucharest, RO, curator: Cristina Stounescu
Beauty Salon, 51 Gallery, Modi’in city gallery, Modi'in, IL, curator: Nitza Perry
Living Together-Crossing Borders, The 4th Mediterranean Biennale, NB Haifa School of Design Gallery, curators: Belu-Simion Fainaru, Avital Bar-Shay
On The Table, Water Institute, Yosef Weissman Municipal Gallery, Giv'atayim, curators: Raphael Barbibay, Doron Polak
Isolated, Online exhibition, curator: Nitza Perry
Four Seasons, The Art Studio Gallery, Yavne, IL, curator: Dalia Danon
2020 Here Are All the Flowers, Koresh14, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Dveer Shaked
Labour in a Single Shot. 15 Cities, Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden, DE, curator: Antje Ehmann
2019 Fourth Station, ZUMU-Museum on the Move, Kiryat-Yam, IL, curators: Ofra Harnam and Ruth Oppenheim (Catalogue)
Rituals II, FotoGallerie Wein, AU, curator: Susanne Gamauf (Catalogue)
THEART, Hamidrasha 19 Hayarkon Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Nicola Trezzi and Didi Hamburger
The Mask Principle, Bar-David Museum of Arts, Kibbutz Baram, IL, curator: Avi Ifergan
Between Real and Abstract, Gottesman Etching Center gallery, Kibbutz Cabri, IL, curator: Ofra Raif
The House of Dwelling, Carmel Forest, IL, curator: Sharon Toval (Catalogue)
Prom, Beit Tami, a Special Projects of Fresh Paint - Israeli art fair, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Carmit Blumensohn
2018 Carry That Weight, Jerusalem Artists' House, IL, curator: Iris Mendel (Catalogue)
The Magic Kingdom, Beit Rami and Uri Nehostan Museum, Ashdot Ya'acov, IL, curator: Avi Lubin
KOLNOA.CZ-Israeli Film Festival 2018- Israeli Video Art, Kino Pilotu & Kino 35, Prague, CZ, curator: Hagai Segev
Eye Contact, Art Gallery of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL, curator: Yivsam Azgad (Catalogue)
First Offerings, City Gallery Kfar Saba, IL, curator: Meira Perry Lehmen
Eid al Adha, Hanina Contemporary Art gallery, IL, curator: Shira Gepstien Moshkovich
2017 Blind Spots, Video screening under the project All Night Long at the Christine König Galerie, Vienna, AU, Curator: Christine König
Free Radicals and Anti-Oxidants, the New Gallery in Musrara, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Dafna Ichilov
Zoom from the Inside Zoom from the Outside, Yad Tabenkin Historical Museum, IL, curator: Dalia Keinan (Catalogue)
Understanding the Body, Sapir College Art Gallery, IL, curator: Ziva Yellin
Decade and More, Gottesman Etching Center Gallery, Kibbutz Cabri, IL, curator: Ofra Raif
2016 Women Resources, ACAC- Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad, IL, curator: Hadas Kedar
In the Place Where We Stand, JCC New York, USA, curator: Avi Sabag
On Guard, Historical Museum Beit Hankin, Kfar Yehoshua, IL, curator: Neta Haber
Monochrome, Kupferman collection Museum, Lohamei Hagetaot, IL, curator: Dalia Levin
On the Verge, Sapir College Art Gallery, IL, curator: Maayan Shelef and students of curating course
Just Another Day, the Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, ES, curators: Antje Ehmann and Carles Guerra
Is It Art? Janco Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, IL, curators: Honi Hameagel and Raya Zomer
Other Provisions, Sapir Collage Art Gallery, IL, curator: Michal Shamir
2015 Super Women, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, IL, curator: Sigal Kehat Krinski
Drawer, the Barber, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann, House of the World's Cultures, Berlin, DE
Black and White, Shechter Gallery at Neve-Shechter Contemporary Jewish Culture and Art Center, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Shira Friedman
Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
Stations #1, Video screening, Cinematheque Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Carmel Gottlieb
Shelters, Senate Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IL, curator: Prof. Haim Maor (Catalogue)
Scales, Shechter Gallery at Neve-Shechter Contemporary Jewish Culture and Art Center, Tel Aviv, IL,
curator: Shira Friedman (Catalogue)
2014 Homage to Struck: the Art of Print Today, Herman Struck Museum, Haifa, IL, curator: Svetlana Reingold
Rising Star, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL, curators: Dalia Levin, Tal Bechler, Ghila Limon
Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehamann, Mills Gallery, Boston Center, USA
Re-Imagining Jerusalem - dialogue with Beit Avi Chai photography collection, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Rona Sela
Secular Judaism, Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Monica Lavi
Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann, Folkwangmuseum, Essen, DE
Disturbed Landscape, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Shahar Marcus
Confessions, the Artists’ Residence, Herzliya, IL, curator: Karni Barzilay (Catalogue)
Living Space, Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Varda Ginosar, Dalia Danon (Catalogue)
2013 Good Girls - Memory, Desire, Power, MNAC, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO, curator: Bojana Pejic (Catalogue)
Open Doors, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, PT, curator: Claudia Giannetti
Not Book - Pushtit, Beit Ha'ir, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Guy Morag Tzepelewitz
Becoming, Hamidrasha 19 Hayarkon Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Boaz Arad
No Ego, MusraraMix 13 Festival, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Ayelet Hashahar Cohen
Yes Minister (Limited Edition), the Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Gilad Melzer
Friends with Benefit(s), CCA, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Chen Tamir, Sergio Edelsztein
Plaster, Jaffa Art Salon Gallery, Warehouse 2, Jaffa Port, IL, curators: Vardit Gross, Karmit Galili
Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ahamann, Lumiar Cite Lisbon, PT
Labour in a Single Shot, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ahamann, Museum Sztuki Lodz, PL,
Curators: Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki, Curatorial cooperation- Joanna Sokolowska, Alexandra Jach
Labour in a Single Shot – Just Another Day, EPOS International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL, Curator: Antje Ehmann
Artificial Islands, Municipal Art Gallery, Ramla, IL, curator: Shahar Marcus
Taboo Registration, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Shira Gepstien Moshkovich
2012 Patterns of Behavior, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Irena Gordon Breathing Concrete, KB45 art space, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Karmit Galili
Safe Harbor, the Cube Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Nitza Perry (Catalogue)
Daily Reports, MNAC, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO, curator: Carmen Iovitu
Minor Exhibition, Hamidrasha 19 Hayarkon Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Haim Deuel Luski
Teen Spirit, Grid 2012, International Photography Biennial, Amsterdam, NL, curators: Avi Sabag and
Eyal Ben-Dov (Catalogue)
Land of Promise, video screening, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Hagit Peleg Rotem
New in the Collection, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, IL, curator: Yona Fischer
Land of Promise, video screening, TMCA Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
In The Making - Testing Tools #9, Beit Tami, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Carmit Blumensohn
Written on Wall, Beit Kaner Art Gallery, Rishon Lezion, IL, curator: Effi Gan (Catalogue)
Closing Party, the Heder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Neta Gal-Atzmon
Sand Uproar, AUP Arcive project by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Guy Tortosa with e-flux & the Serpentine Gallery - London
at the DAAD Galerie Berlin, DE
The End of the World, Meyuhas Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Galit Semel
Fresh Paint #5 - Israeli Art Fair, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Ofra Raif
2011 Right Here, Right Now; Derby Museum and Art Gallery, UK, curator: Clement Louis (Catalogue)
Out of Proportion, Beit Kaner Art Gallery, Rishon Lezion, IL, curator: Effi Gan (Catalogue)
Fox Tails on Fire, Rothschild 12 Art Space, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Gilad Ratman
Where is There, Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery, IL, curator: Ora Kraus (Catalogue)
Hunger Rush, the Farm Gallery, Holon, IL, curator: Nitza Perry
Land of Promise, Video screening, Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA, curator: Hagit Peleg Rotem
Fresh Paint #4 – Israeli Art Fair, the Botanic Gardens, Tel Aviv, IL
2010 New in Photography - Recent Acquisitions, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Nissan Perez
Safe Haven, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Shelly Cohen, Tula Amir (Catalogue)
Identity 3: Positioning, WUK- FotogalerieWien, Vienna, AU, curator: Susanne Gamauf (Catalogue)
Small is Beautiful- Fire Zone, Vernon Gallery, Prague, Tina B. Contemporary Art Festival Czech, CZ, curator: Monika Burian (Catalogue)
Fresh Paint #3 – Israeli Art Fair, Jaffa Tel Aviv Port, IL
2009 Fotografie aus Israel, Kultur Bahnhof Eller Dusseldorf, DE, curators: Jutta Zaum, Avraham Eilat (Catalogue)
Art of Emergency, Artneuland Berlin, DE, curator: Yael Katz Ben-Shalom
Compact Duo, 10 Gallery, Beit Michal, Rehovot, IL, curator: carmit Blumensohn (Catalogue)
Big Spender, 5 Place for Art, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Gilit Fischer, Raz Samira
Bread and Roses, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
Idolatry/Foreign Work, MusraraMix 09 festival, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Irit Carmon Popper (Pamplet)
The Musical Car, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Gilit Fischer, Karin Medelovici
2008 Holga, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, USA, curator: Ann Jastraub
No Where, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, IL, curators: Avraham Eilat, Yaakov Hefetz
2007 Cats and Others, Eretz-Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Dana Tagar
Jerusalem of One’s Eye, the Social Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Eyal Ben-Dov
Artic 9, the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Sorin Heller (Catalogue)
Desert Generation, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Larry Abramson, David Tartakover,
Sliman Mansour, David Reeb
Desert Generation, Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem, IL, curators: Larry Abramson, David Tartakover,
Sliman Mansour, David Reeb
Collective 82, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Rachel Sukman
Go A-Hat, Corinne Maman Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod, IL, curator: Yael Wiesel
2006 Bread, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Noam Baram Ben Yosef (Exhibition book)
Attitude 03, Magaza Museum, MK, curator: Bilijana Petrovska (Catalogue)
Periphery, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Gaston Zvi Ickowicz
Anonymous, Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa, IL, curators: Elad Armon, Philip Rantzer
Captured Moments, the Edge gallery, Nahariya, IL, curator: Lee Rimon
Graduate Exhibition, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Ram Bracha
Kogniya, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: David Daniel
2005 Attitude 02, Magaza Museum, MK, curator: Basak Senova (Catalogue)
Moroccan Charm, Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Rachel Hasson (Exhibition book)
MusraraMix05, The social gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Avi Sabag
2004 Disinformation My Love, Israel Festival in Jerusalem, IL, curator: Buki Greenberg
 
Installations and Activities in the Public Realm
2020 1917, Outdoor exhibition on bus stations, Tel Aviv Municipality, IL, curator: Maayan Nevo
2017 Residents in Stations, photo archive of residents of Ofakim, exhibition at bus stations in the city Ofakim, IL
2016 Salon Beton, Outdoor exhibition in Arad City center, IL
Photo Nachum, Photo archive of residence of Nachum Neighborhood, Sderot, IL
2015 The Other, art in the public space, festival in the southern city -Ashkelon, IL
2014 City Lights 2, where Is George, The Lake gallery in Anabe Park Modi'in, IL
Stations #1, Video screening in the yard of the Suzanne Dellal cultural center Tel Aviv, IL
2013 Videocracy, open screening in the CCA Tel Aviv square, IL
Pathways in the Air, a group exhibition on bridges over Nahal Alexander (Alexander stream), IL
2012 One Kilometer, #2 Haifa Walks, as a part of the exhibition HAIFA-JERUSALEM-TEL AVIV, Haifa Museu of Art, IL
Green Kuku, a site specific installation, Contemporary Art Festival, #9
Testing Tools, In the Making, Beit Tami Tel Aviv, IL
City Lights, a group exhibition in the business district, Modi’in, IL
2009 Oskar, protest installation, setting a 3 meters-high sculpture, The Tel Aviv #1 International Art Biennial's public square
 
Awards, Scholarships and Residencies
2022 Artis Assocition, Grant for a solo exhibition, NYC and Tel Aviv, USA & IL
2021 Ministry of Culture and Sport, Creativity Encouragement Prize, IL
2021 Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Division of Culture and Arts with the Yehoshua Rabinovitch Foundation for the Arts, IL
2021 Jerusalem municipality, Department of Art and Culture, IL
2020 LowRes Jerusalem International Artist-in-Residence studio program, Art Cube Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem, IL
2020 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv, IL
2018 Gottesman Etching Center, Artist-in-Residency, Kibbutz Cabri, IL
2018 Arac-Plantelor 58, Atist-in-Residency, Bucharest, RO
2018 Anca Poterasu Gallery and AFCN -National Cultural Fund Administration Romania, Bucharest, RO
2017 Foreign Ministry support for a solo exhibition in Prague, CZ
2016 Eikon International award, printed book: 5X5 photo tracks, 25 contemporary photographers, AU
2016 ACAC-Arad Art Architecture Center, Artist-in-Residency, IL
2016 Jerusalem municipality, Department of Art and Culture, IL
2016 ACAC- Arad Contemporary Art Center, IL
2015 Petach Tikva Museum, IL
2015 ACAC- Arad Art architecture Center, Artist-in-Residency, Arad, IL
2015 LowRes Jerusalem International Artist-in-Residency studio Program, Art Cube Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem, IL
2014 Museums Quartier Wien, quartier 21, Artist-in-Residency, Vienna, AU
2012 Jerusalem Print Workshop, IL
2011 Gottesman Etching Center, Artist-in-Residency, Kibbutz Cabri, IL
2009 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv, IL
2006-2008 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Creative Excellence Grant in Photography
2006 Graduation with honors, The Naggar School of Photography, Media & New Music in Musrara,
Photography Department, Jerusalem, IL
 
Collections
MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, AU
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, SP
MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, PL
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Ashdod Museum of Art, IL
The Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, IL
The Sip, Shpilman Photography Institute, IL
Bank Ha'poalim Art Collection, IL
Beit Avi Chai, Jerusalem, IL
Recanati Art Collection, Tel Aviv, IL
America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv, IL
CCA Tel Aviv Video Archive, IL
The Israeli Center for Digital Art Holon, Video Archive. IL
BAAD Gallery - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, IL
Art Hotel Bay Club Haifa, an Atlas Boutique Hotel chain, IL
Private Collections in Israel and abroad
Teaching and additional work experience
Since 2015 Faculty, Senior Lecturer in Photography, Department of Art, Society & Culture, Sapir Academic College, IL
2018 Guest curator at Morel Derfler Gallery, The Naggar School of Photography, Media & New Music in Musrara,
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IL
2015-2018 Faculty, Senior Lecturer and leading workshops: Educational Community Outreach Programs, Department of Art, Society & Culture, Sapir Academic College, IL
2015-16 Guest lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AU
2014-15 Lecturer of Photography, Hacubia, Jerusalem in collaboration with David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem, IL
Guest curator of the exhibition Tea Time, the City Gallery of Modi'in, IL
2013 Conductor of the project The Home - a book that interlaces Avot Yeshurun’s poems with selected
2011-12 Lecturer and exhibition curator in a two-year photography project, joint to students from Corcoran
College of Art and Design, Washington D.C. USA and the Naggar School of Photography, Media & New
Music in Musrara, Jerusalem, IL
Lecturer in “Place of Art Study - The Program for Active Artists”, Museum for Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, IL
2009-10 Guest lecturer, Sapir Academic College, The School for Art, Society and Culture, IL
Guest lecturer, Tel Aviv University, The David and Yolanda Katz Faculty of the Arts, IL
2007-10 Lecturer of Photography in special needs education program, The Naggar School of Photography, Media & New Music in Musrara, Jerusalem, IL

 


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