IGAEL SHEMTOV
Born in Israel 1952,
Lives and works in Binyamina
EDUCATION
1975-1978 The Neri Bloomfield College School of Design, Haifa
1977-1979 Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1979-1981 Hamidrasha Art Teachers Training College, Ramat Hasharon
1983-1985 M.F.A, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
TEACHING
Since 1979 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1980,1989,1992-1994 Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv
1980-1982, 1987-1991 Hamidrasha Art Teachers Training College, Ramat Hasharon
1991-1994 The Naggar School of Photography, Media, & New Music, Musrara, Jerusalem
1993-1996 The Neri Bloomfield College School of Design, Haifa
1994-2000 Head of the Photography, Video and Computer Imaging Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1995-2002 Art Department, University of Haifa
1996-2000, 2002-2005 Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Kfar Saba
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 The Photo Album 1979-1980, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
The Photo Album 1979-1980, The Camera Club, New York, NY
2009 Igael Shemtov: Six Early Works and One New, Dolinger Art Project Gallery, Tel Aviv
Purposeless Functions, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park
2007 The Way to Heaven, Dollinger Art Project, Tel Aviv
2004 Low Landscape, Low Reality, Loushy Art and Editions, Tel Aviv
1997 Come Clean Yourself, Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
1995 Tout passé, tout casse, tout lasse, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1985 Pratt Institute, New York
1979 Photographs in Tel Aviv, The Art Pavillion, Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Drive-in: Israeli Photography in the 1980s, Ashdod Art Museum
2013 Concrete Abstract, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv
Lot’s Wife: The Photographic Gaze, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai
2010 City Slivers, The Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem
Building A Place: The P6 Group and Critical Landscape Photography, The Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv
2009 P6 Photographers, Photography Department Gallery, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Beral, Kfar Saba
The Light Show, The Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Nature Morte, D.D. Danon Gallery, Tel Avi
2008 What You See is What You Get, Dollinger Art Project Gallery, Tel Aviv
Israeli Landscapes, Open University Capmus, Ra’anana
2007 Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; The Jewish Museum, Berlin
Through the Object, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park
Moods and Modes in Israeli Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Stills 07-08, Oranim Gallery, Oranim College Art Institute, Tivon
2006 Spatial Borders and Local Borders: A Photographic Discourse on Israeli Landscapes, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park
Dynasty, School of Art, Sapir College, Sderot
Haifa in the Eye of the Camera The First Half of the 20th Century, Haifa City Museum
Regarding the Body, Photography Department Gallery, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Kfar Saba
Art of Living: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Fransisco
2005 The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Family Trilogy, Photography Department Gallery, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Kfar Saba
Etched Voices, Exhibitions Pavillion, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Picture Israel, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Camera Sacra: Capturing the Soul of Nature, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2004 Current Visions: Inside Israel, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Winners of the Minister of Education and Culture Award, Haifa Museum of Art
Video Zero, Towards Cinema The First Generation of Projected Images, Haifa Museum of Art
2001 A Week Ago, on Monday, Yesterday, Ami Steinitz Gallery, Tel Aviv
Artists from Bezalel, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA
2000 Between Mountain and Sea, The Municipal Museum, Haifa
Time Frame: A Century of Photography in the Land of Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1997 Oh Mama: Representations of the Mother in Contemporary Israeli Art, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Art at the University, 1969-1997, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa
Recipients of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation Creation Prizes, Bezalel Historic Building, Jerusalem
1996 New Art from an Ancient Land, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College, Salem, VA
1996 Contemporary Photography from the Israel Museum Collection, Passage de Retz Gallery, Paris
Touches of Light, Studio Gallery, Ra’anana
Contemporary Israeli Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1994 Art Focus, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1993 The Range of Realism, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
Back to Paradise, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
1992 Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
Borochov Gallery, Tel Aviv,
1991 Israeli Photography, Biala LDK Gallery, Lublin; Stara Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Winners of the Minister if Education and Culture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1990 Photography from Israel, Burgtheater Gallery, Ratzeburg, Germany
The Museum as Collector, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1989 Warm Lights: Israeli Photography, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; Traveling exhibition in Finland and Poland
Rap Gallery, Tel Aviv
Between Image and Object, Art Gallery, Oranim College, Tivon
1988 Moment Gallery, Hamburg
1986 The First Israeli Photography Biennale, Museum of Art, Ein Harod
Liberman & Saul Gallery, New York
1983 Personal Vision, Jerusalem Theater Gallery, Jerusalem; Photography Gallery, Tel Aviv
1982 Video Art, Ahad Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv
Paintings, Ahad Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv
Here and Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Color Perceptions, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1981 Video Art, Ahad Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv
Yellow Tape, The Israeli Fringe Theater Festival, Acre
Winners of the Israel Museum Awards, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1980 Israeli Photography, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
1979 New Acquisitions, 1978-1979, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1978 The White Gallery, Tel Aviv
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2005 The Constantiner Photography Award fir an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2003 Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Artists in the Field of Plastic Arts
1997 George & Janet Jaffin Prize, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1991 Ministry of Education and Culture Encouragement Prize
1982 Ministry of Education and Culture Grant for Studies Abroad
1981 Enrique Kavlin Photography Prize, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Painting and Sculpture
1980 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Painting and Sculpture
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Studies in Israel
1979 Agfa Prize, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Photography
Young Artist Award, Culture and Art Council, Ministry of Education and Culture
1978 The Rami Halperin Prize, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
COLLECTIONS
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Haifa Museum of Art
The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park