RESUME’
Einat Amir
Born 1979, Israel.
.
Education
2009 MFA, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY
2004 B.ed (with honors). Major: Visual Arts, Hamidrasha School of Art; Beit Berl College, Israel
.
Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2011 _____Please, MLAC, Rome, Italy
2011 Enough About You, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo, Sweden
2010 VOLTA NY art fair in collaboration with Arlen Austin
2009 Men, MOMA PS1 New York. (performance)
2009 Ideal Viewer (Phase One, Phase Two), PERFORMA09, New York (performance)
2009 Ideal Viewer, Rosenfeld Gallery, Israel
2007 Acknowledgment,Rosenfeld Gallery, Israel
2005 Disgraceful Retreat under Pressure, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2005 Killing Me Softly, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2005 I’m Every Woman, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Israel
.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 ACTS – Festival for Performative Art 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark (Forthcoming)
2012 THIS & THERE, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
2012 I Just Want to be Loved, EX3 Gallery, Florence, Italy
2011 No Sense of Place, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
2011 I Just Want to be Loved, MAGA Museo Arte, Gallarate, Italy
2011 Le Rayon Vert, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
2011 Performance Festival 2011, Lilith Performance studio, Malmo, Sweden
2011 The lost Art of Travelers, Dallas Contemporary Art Center,Texas
2011 Gatekeepers, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2011 Index Of /, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
2011 To Name A Day, Terminal Convention, Cork, Ireland
2010 Signals, Bet Yam Museum,Bet Yam, Israel
2010 Art in Odd Places Festival, The Theater Lab, NYC
2010 The Absolutely Other,The Kitchen. NYC
2010 The Calm Before the Storm, Winzavod Art Center,Moscow
2009 Remember to Remember, VOLTA Basel art fair, Basel
2009 Columbia UniversityVisual Arts Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Art Center, NYC
2009 The Practice of Joy Before Death, Scaramouche Gallery, NYC
2008 – 2009 A New Way of Seeing ,Städtische galerie, Bremen, Germany
2008 – 2009 Ratti Foundation 2008 Program for Visual Arts, CareOf Gallery,Milan, Italy
2008 Good Kids, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 This is not Israeli Art, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 The Archive; Digital Art Center, Hulon, Israel
2006 Presence of Unknowing, Jerusalem Artits’ House, Jerusalem, Israel
2005 Gaza as Love, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 You Don’t Look Hungry, Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Graduates’ exhibit, Hamidrasha School of Art, Israel
.
Selected Screenings of Works
2008 Come Out and Play, APEXART,NYC
2008 Platforma Video Festival, the official competition, Athens, Greece
2008 Dumbo_Video Festival, Brooklyn, New York
2007 Video – Performance Happening, Israel Museum, Ticho House, Israel
2007 100 Years of Art in Israel, a Television Series, Channel Two, Israel
2006 Act Art 4, London
2006 Israeli Art Week, Makor Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Final Flash City Festival, Slovenia.
2004 Video Zone 2nd international video-art biennial, Tel- Aviv, Jerusalem, Shderot
Cinemateques, Israel
2002 Juried student screening, Tel Aviv Cinemateque, Israel
.
Residencies, Awards , Scholarships
2011 Palais de Tokyo, La Pavillon, Paris
2009 Artis Grant Recipient
2008 Antonio Ratti Foundation, Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Como, Italy
2007-2009 Artis Fellowship,Columbia University, New York
2007-2009 Agnes Martin Scholarship, Columbia University, New York
2007-2009 Study Fellowship, America – Israel Cultural Foundation, Israel
2007-2009 Toms Visual Art fellowship, Columbia University, New York
2004 Excellency Award, Hamidrasha School of Art , Israel
2001-2004 Fellowship for outstanding students, Ministry of Education, Israel
.
Selected Press
2011 Performa 09 – Back to Futurism by Roselee Goldberg. (Book) pp 276 – 247
2011 Dealing With Power, An interview with Einat Amir by Marco Antonini, ARTPULSE, Spring 2011 issue
2010 The Manipulated Manipulator by David Everitt Howe, Programma Magazine, issue no 3 October
2010 No Guts No Glory, The Art Newspaper (video article), March 11th
2010 Medium Voltage, ARTINFO.com, March 5th, 2010
2010 Bring On The Guts, by Yaelle Amir, ARTslant, March 4th, 2010
2010 An interview with Einat Amir by Virginie Bobin, Flash Art International, March – April
2009 Leaps and Bounds by Diane Nottle, The National, November 16th
2009 Bas Verbeek – Freelance Journalist Blog, November 10th
2009 Don’t Quit Your Day Job, by Eitan Buganim, Time Out Tel Aviv, Israel, September 24th
2009 Ethics – Aesthetics by Hila Shkolnik-Brener, City Mouse, Israel, July 11th
2009 An Artful Afternoon in Queens, Love it All Above – Art Blog, May 3rd
2009 Art in Review by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, April 17th
2009 The Practice of Joy Before Death; Time Out NY, April 9th
2009 Public Improvisations, By Francesca Guerisoli, EosArte, Italy, January 11th
2008 Einat Amir – artist profile. Mousse Magazine, December 1st, 2008
2008 XIV CORSO SUPERIORE DI ARTI VISIVE della Fondazione Antonio Ratti, by Claudia Bernareggi, ARTKEY, Italy, August 29th
2007 Avoda Ba’Eynai’m , by Uzi Zur, Haaretz, Israel, July 20th
2007 The Art World as A Lonely Planet, by Hemda Rosenbaum, City Mouse, Israel, July 19th
2007 A Friend Brings a Friend, by Ruti Direktor, Yedi’ot Acharonot, Israel, July 13th
2007 I’m Gay in “Promo”, by Rotem Rosental, Ma’ariv, Israel, July 6th
2007 Who Knows the Amir on the Wall, by Dana Shwapi, Time Out Tel Aviv, Israel, July 5th
2005 Just Like a Holiday Feast, by Yael Omer, Ynet, Israel, October 6th
2005 The Bad Habits of Lesbians, by Sami Duanies, Time Out Tel Aviv, Israel, September 29th
2005 Liga, by Galia Yahav, Time Out Tel Aviv, Israel, March 3rd
2004 Grilling an Artist by Tammi Riklis, Nana10, Israel, September 22nd
2004 Be Mature, by Ruti Direktor, Ha’ir, Israel, June 21st
Comments are closed.