Sharon Ya’ari • CV

Born 1966 in Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv

Solo Exhibitions

2026	Plants I didn’t ask for, ones I did, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
2021	Humanities and Friends, Sommer Contemporary Art, Zurich, CH
2021	The Romantic Trail and The Concrete House, Kunstverein Heilbronn, DE `curated by Dr. Matthia Löbke`
2020	The Romantic Trail and The Concrete House, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, DE `curated by Dr. Magdalena Holzhey`
2018	Summer Work, Keshet Eilon Gallery, Kibbutz Eilon, IL
2016	Officers’ Pool, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, AT
2016	Positive Images for field and Forest, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, LT `curated by Iave Mazuraite-Novickiene`
2014	Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2013	Leap Toward Yourself, Tel Aviv Museum of Art `curated by Urs Stahel`
2012	Expectancy, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
2011	Jerusalem Blvd II, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH `curated by Sabine Schaschl`
2009	Sharon Ya‘ari, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, AT
2009	Jerusalem Blvd., Sommer Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna Austria
2006	Hope for long distance photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art `curated by Ellen Ginton`
2003	Dust, Lombard/Freid Fine Art, New York
2002	Lisson Gallery, London LandEscapes: Mysteries of the Holy Land, Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US `curated by Tami Katz Freiman and Cheryl Harper`
2002	Sharon Ya’ari / Solo, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
2002	Project room, ARCO, Madrid, SP
2001	Last Year, Lombard Freid Fine Art, New York, NY, US
2000	Sharon Ya’ari / 15 New Photographs, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
1999	Color Works, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, IL `curated by Vered Maimon`
1996	Boxes in the Garden, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL `curated by Vered Maimon`

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025	Echoes, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna Austria Homesick, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2024	In Their Image: Album Darom, Petach Tikva Museum of Art `Curated by Irena Gordon, Dana Arieli` The Block, Minus 1 – The art space of Haaretz Collection, Curated by Efrat Livny
2023	All These Fleeting Perfections, Biblioteca civica Geisser, Turin, Italy `Curated by Domenico Quaranta` CORPS À CORPS, “HISTOIRE(S) DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE”, Collections de photographies du Center Pompidou In the Land of My Love, The Israeli Art Collection of Phoenix Holding, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art `Curated by Roni Cohen-Biniamini` Material Imagination: Center of Gravity / Israeli Art from the Museum’s Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Friends of Art – 40 Years of Collecting, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany
2022	Museum: Modern and Contemporary Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Le dernier des 8 solitaires, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria Characters, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
2021	How Long is Now? New in Contemporary Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, `curated by Orly Rabi` Crossing Borders, The 4th Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa `curated by Belu-Simion Fainaru, Avital Bar-shay`
2020	Why do Birds Suddenly Appear? Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria `curated by Melanie Ebenhoch and Martin Janda` Up and Down the Mountain, The New Gallery – Artists’ Studios Teddy, Jerusalem
2019	Permanent Collection Galleries for Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, USA `curated by Michal Raz-Russo, Liz Siegel` Galerie Martin Janda satellite space, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna, Austria 20 Years, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Notes, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv
2018	To The End of Land, National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi, India `curated by Drorit Gur-Arye` Every photographer has a horse, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem `curated by Hadas Sat` When the Jay Feeds the Cuckoo, The Apter Barrer Arts Center at Maalot `curated by Ronia Harari` Flood, Israeli Contemporary Photography, Ashdod Art Museum `curated by Yuval Biton, Roni Cohen-Benyamini, Maurizio de Bonis, Orit Yudovitch` Pillar of Cloud, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa `curated by Svetlana Reingold` Achzav, Hakubiya Art Center, Jerusalem `curated by Dan Orimian` Shaun Gladwell: 1000 Horses, Tel Aviv Museum of Art `curated by Ruti Direktor`
2017	Current Affairs, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; `curated by Doron Rabina` Vienna Contemporary 2017, Galerie Martin Janda Vienna , Austria A Mountain of Dreams Mitzpe Ramon in the Mirror of Time, 1956-2016, Muza Eretz Israel Museum Tel-Aviv `curated by Guy Raz` Credit, An art exhibition for youth at risk, Shenkar, Multidisciplinary Art School Gallery
2016	BENE•F•ACTION, Andera Meislin Gallery, New York, USA
2015	Wie wir leben (The Way We Live), Kunst Haus Wein, Austria `curated by Charlotte Desaga and Verena Kaspar-Eisert` On Remote Control 2, Lothringer13 Halle Munich, Germany `curated by Jörg Koopmann` Sector 17, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria Take, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Mind the Gap, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv `curated by Boaz Arad` The Last Sea – Israeli Art and the Sea, Ashdod Art Museu `curated by Roni Cohen Benyamini` Signifiers of Place \| Contemporary Israeli Photography, Herzlia Art Museum Scorpion Pass, Circle1, Berlin, Germany L Israeli Longing, Projektraum LOTTE, Stuttgart, Germany
2014	Journeys, Israel Museum, Jerusalem `curated by Kobi Ben-Meir` Apparition, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013	Collecting Dust in Contemporary Israeli Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem `curated by Tamar Manor-Friedman`
2012	The City Show, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv `curated by Yanai Toister` Good Night, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem `curated by Kobi Ben Meir` DB12 Volume 1 – The Dallas Biennial, Dick Higgins Gallery Dallas, USA `curated by Michael Mazurek, Morgan Barnet` The Compromised Land; Recent Photography and Video from Israel, Neuberger Museum,Purchase, New York, USA `curated by Helaine Posner and Lilly Wei`
2011	Southern Spirit – Aspects of the Negev in Israeli Contemporary Art, The Negev Museum of Art, and Genia Schreiber Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University `curated by Daily Manor` The Road to Nowhere, Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center, Ashdod `curatored by Dr. Aya Lurie`
2010	What is the Political, MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam `curated by Ma’ayan Amir` Looking In, Looking Out: The Window in Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem `curated by Hagit Allon` Recipients of the 2009 Culture and Sports Ministry Awards for Art and Design, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel `curated by Dalia Levin and Dana Orland` Traces IV: Biennale for Drawing, Artists’ House, Jerusalem `curated by Tamar Manor-Friedman (catalogue), and Ticho House, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; curated by Timna Seligman` High Definition, Bezalel Gallery, Salame 60 Tel Aviv `curated by Yitzhak Livneh and Ruti Direktor` In detail: from the collections of Arnie Druck, Haifa Museum of Art `curated by Yeala Hazut`
2009	Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery London, England `curated by Richard Wentworth` Tel Aviv Time, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv `curated by Nili Goren` Universal Circus, City Performances, Art TLV, Tel Aviv Biennial `curated by Edna Moshenson`
2008	Personal Landscapes, Contemporary Art from Israel, The American University Museum Washington, USA `curated by Russell Stone and Dalia Levin` Click-Clack: Homage to the Slide Projector, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel `curated by Ruti Direktor` Depletion: Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv `curated by Aya Lurie and Nili Goren` Eventually We’ll Die: Young Art in Israel of the 1990s, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel `curated by Doron Rabina` Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem `curated by Amitai Mendelsohn and Efrat Natan` Can Art Do More? Art Focus 5, Jerusalem `curated by Bernard Blistène and Ami Barak` Intertwined with the Israeli landscape – a view of six photographers, Open University, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication `curated by Mimi Smilan and Dr. Dennis Sharvit`
2007	Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany and the Jewish Museum, New York, USA `curated by Susan Tumarkin Goodman` Bread and Pleasures, Israeli Art 8, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv `curated by Ory Dessau` Engagement: Israeli Photography Now, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem `curated by Nissan Perez` Moods and Modes in Israeli Photography: Works from the Collection, Gift of Leon and Michaela Constantiner, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv `curated by Nili Goren` Stills 07-08, Gallery Oranim College, Art Institute at Oranim College `curated by David Vakstein` Elections 2007, Binet Gallery Tel Aviv `curated by Avnet Kats` The Invisible Snake Show, Yitzhak Livneh, Michal Helfman, and Sharon Ya’ari, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2006	Earth Ways, Ashdod Museum of Art, Monart Center, Ashdod `curated by Yona Fischer` Ashdod 50, Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center, Ashdod `curated by Yona Fischer` Inside Out, contemporary artists from Israel, MARCO Vigo, Spain `curated by Octavio Zaya` In Between Places, New Art From Israel, Vivian Horan Gallery, New York, USA `curated by Kari Conte` Art of Living: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, USA `curated by Nissan Perez` Palazzo Reale Milano, Itali, Omanut arte e vita Israele 1906–2006
2005	The New Hebrews, A Century of Art in Israel, Martin Gropius Bau Museum Berlin, Germany `curated by Doreet LeVitte Harten and Yigal Zalmona` Such Stuff as Dream Are Made on, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA `curated by Manon Slome` Beyond Delirious Architecture, Ella Fontanalls de Cisneros Collection `curated by Christopher Phillips` In/Out, Ashdod Museum of Art, Monart Center, Ashdod `curated by Yona Fischer`
2004	In Days Gone By, At This Time, Rubin Museum `curated by Carmela Rubin and Shira Naftali` Framed Landscape, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa `curated by Guy Raz` A Point of View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv `curated by Ellen Ginton` Behind Faces, Galerie Martin Janda 2004, Vienna Current Visions: Inside Israel, Meislin Gallery, New York Summer Show, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
2003	Strangers: the first ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, ICP New York; curated by Christopher Phillips, Carol Squiers, Brian Wallis and Edward Earle Fabula National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England `curated by Patrick Henry` Space and Subjectivity, 1st PRAGUE BIENNALE `curated by Lauri Firstenberg` Young Israeli Art, The Jacques and Eugenie O’Hana Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art `curated by Ellen Ginton`
2002	Multitude Artists Space New York `curated by Irene Small and Lauri Firstenberg` Antony Wilkinson Gallery, London Fragile Line, Umm El-Fahm Gallery `curated by Simcha Shirman` Lying Within the Skin: Images of Silence and Absence in the Art of Second Generation Holocaust Survivors, Kiryat Tivon Memorial Center Art Gallery `curated by Anat Gatenio`
2001	Portrait of a State, Starr Gallery Leventhal Sidmann JCC Newton MA Aspiration, Riffe Gallery, Colombus Ohio `curated by Robert Stearns Nela Cassouto`
2000	A Place, The Art Gallery, Faculty of Humanities, Haifa University; curated by Ruti Direktor Contemporary Landscape, Roskild, Denemark and Trondheim Kunstferning Oslo A Changing View, Fotofest 2000, Margolis Gallery, Houston Texas
1999	Surveying the Landscape, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York City Mirror, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel `curated by Ofer Zeevi`
1998	Condition Report: Photography in Israel Today, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem `curated by Nissan Perez` Habitation, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel `curated by Vered Maimon` Sabbath on the Kibbutz, Beit Uri and Rami Nechushtan, Kibbutz Ashdot Ya’akov Me’uchad, Israel `curated by Tali Tamir` A Portrait, the Photography Department Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1997	Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport Prize Winners, The Joseph Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv Conservation, The New Workshop for Art, Rishon LeZion `curated by Raanan Harlap` Touches in Light – Photography Works, The Studio – College of Art Studies, Raanana
1996	Living Machines – Architecture of Visibility, a tree locations exhibition – Beit-Hamudim, The Gallery in Borochov and Camera Obscura Gallery `curated by Vered Maimon and Ilana Tenenbaum`

Prizes and Awards

2021	Grant for publishing a printed exhibition catalog, The National Lottery Council for Culture
2020	Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Supported Projects
	ArtIs, Exhibition Grant, Kunstmussen Krefeld
2018	The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture – Photography
2013	Grant for publishing a printed exhibition catalog, The National Lottery Council for Culture
2010	The Constantiner Photography Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2009	Encouragement Prize, Ministry of Culture and Sport
2005	The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2004	The Janet & George M. Jaffin Award, America–Israel Cultural Foundation
2000	Ministry of Education and Sport Prize for Artists in the Field of Fine Arts
1999	Gérard Lévy Prize for a Young Photographer, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1996	America–Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Art

Education

1998–2002	MPhil, Faculty of Art, Design and Technology, University of Derby, England
1993	School of Visual Arts, New York, US (student exchange semester)
1990–1994	BFA, Department of Photography, Video and Computer Imaging, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1989–1990	BA studies, Philosophy and General Studies, Tel Aviv University

Teaching

Since 2003	MFA Program, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2000–2011	Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Humanities, University of Haifa, Israel
Since 1995	Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2013–2014	Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art History, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
2011	Visiting Lecturer, Program in Judaic Studies, The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University. MFA Program, Corcoran School of Art and Design, George Washington University
1997–2000	Beit-Berl College, Hamidrasha School of Art, Israel

Works in Public Collections

The Georges Pompidou National Centre of Art and Culture (FR)

The Art Institute of Chicago (US)

Kunstmuseen Krefeld (GE)

The Jewish Museum, New York (US)

Harvard University, The Schwartz Art Collection, Business School, Boston, MA (US)

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IL)

Tel Aviv Museum of Art (IL)

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (IL)

Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center (IL)

Mishkenot Sha’ananim Collection, Jerusalem (IL)