Uri Gershuni

Uri Gershuni (; born 1970) is an Israeli photographer and educator.

Biography Uri Gershuni was born in Raanana in 1970. He is son of Israeli painter Moshe Gershuni and sculptor and jewelry designer Bianca Eshel Gershuni.

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. He works and lives in Tel Aviv.

He was a photographer for Yedioth Ahronoth from 2003 and 2007. From 2009 he has worked as a photographer for Haaretz.

Uri Gershuni works are in permanent collections of Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel Museum, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Shpilman Institute of Photography.

He is gay.

Exhibitions Israel 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 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 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 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 Petah Tikva Petah Tikva Museum Group After 2006 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 Tel Aviv A.A. Silver Gallery Group Plastic Sheet 2001 Art Israel Internet Biennial 2 Group Negotiation (Curator: Shalom Amira) 2012 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 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 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 Camera obscura (Curator: Hila Cohen Schneiderman) 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 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 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 Düsseldorf 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 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 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 1995 - Special presidential grant for excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem 2000 - Minister of education and culture award for young Israeli artist 2005 - Young photographers award on behalf of Haifa Museum of Art 2007 - Heskia Hacmun award 2012 - Israel's Minister of Culture ‘Art Encouragement’ Award

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