Uri Gershuni is an Israeli photographer and educator.

Uri Gershuni
Born1970
Raanana, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
EducationBezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Known forPhotography,
MovementIsraeli art, modern art

Biography

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Uri 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

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Israel

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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

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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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "A Total Mother, a Total Artist". Haaretz. 26 July 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Ariel Reichman meets artist Uri Gershuni in Tel Aviv. – ArtBerlin.de". Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Uri Gershuni - the SIP". www.thesip.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Imago Mundi – Bambi by Uri Gershuni". Imago Mundi. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Uri Gershuni". Widewalls. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Press Room 2013". www.english.imjnet.org.il. Archived from the original on 7 March 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "They have built Jerusalem – Christie's". Christies.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  9. ^ "3 LGBT Israeli Artists You Should Know". June 2015.
  10. ^ "Haifa museums - HAIFA MUSEUM OF ART-EXHIBITIONS-Past-2007-Nov. 3,07 …". Archived from the original on 22 April 2015.
  11. ^ "Uri Gershuni – In the Court of the White Lady". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  12. ^ "Israel Museum, Jerusalem – Exhibitions". Museum.imj.org.il. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  13. ^ "(After), מוזיאון פתח תקוה לאמנות". Petachtikvamuseum.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  14. ^ "Umm El Fahem Gallery". Umm El Fahem Gallery. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  15. ^ "Uri Gershuni at Art Israel Internet Biennial 2". Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art. 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  16. ^ Niv, Tal (21 February 2015). "Snapshot: Uri Gershuni's Quantum Leap". Haaretz. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  17. ^ "Uri Gershuni – Nothing but Darkness – Opening: 12.02.2015". Wherevent.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  18. ^ "Uri Gershuni at Israel Discoutnt Bank Album No. 16". Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art. 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  19. ^ "Uri Gershuni at the Spaceship at Hayarkon 70, Tel Aviv". Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art. 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  20. ^ Niv, Tal (31 May 2012). "Talbot Revisited: Uri Gershuni Reconstructs the First Ever Photograph". Haaretz. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  21. ^ "LIVING ROOM – סלון – Tel Aviv Museum of Art". Tamuseum.org.il. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  22. ^ "Indie – Past Exhibitions – Sasha Flit – Incident Light". Galleryindie.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  23. ^ "Heskia – Hacmun Law Firm Tel Aviv Israel". Hh-law.co.il. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
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