Gil Yefman - CV
B.1979, Lives and Works in Tel Aviv
Represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
Education:
2008-10 Fellowship at Alma College for Hebrew Culture studies, Tel Aviv
2005 Fashion and textile studies, Ministry of Labour, Jerusalem.
1998-2003 B.F.A Bezalel Academy for Art and Design
Prizes, Grants and Residencies:
2022 Basis Residency, Frankfurt, Germany
2021 ISCP Residency, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019 Artport Residency, Tel Aviv
2019 Elsewhere Residency, Greensboro, NC, USA
2017 Rappaport Prize laureate for young Israeli artist
2015 Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan
2014 IDA Schir Residency, Hannover, Germany
2014 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL, USA
2013 Artist Residency Tokyo, Japan (A.R.T)
2012 Creative Capital, NYC, ARTIS Career Development Workshop
2011-12 Artist residency, granted by the NRW Kunststiftung, Bronner Family, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 Recipient of the "Young Artist Prize" from the israeli Ministry of Culture and Science
2008-10 Fellowship at Alma College for Hebrew Culture studies, Tel Aviv
Solo Exhibitions:
2022 “Out of Sight”, Educational Center, Hiriya Recycling Park
2021 “Scheiße”, Beit Benyamini, Contemporary Ceramic Center, Tel Aviv
2021 “Trans(A)gression”, The Israeli Center For Digital Art, Holon
2019 “Kibbutz Buchenwald”, Steinek gallery (part of Curated By festival), Vienna
2018 “Kibbutz Buchenwald”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in collaboration with Dov Or Ner and Kuchinate collective.
2017 “Body of Work”, Haifa Museum of Art, in collaboration with Kuchinate collective.
2016 "The Third Dress", in collaboration with Dov Or Ner, Dana art gallery, Yad Mordechai Kibbutz
2014 "Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn" (To Me You Are Beautiful), Ronald Feldman Fine Art, NYC
2013 "H", Container gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 "Tumtum" Performance (as part of "Otherness - I is Somebody Else" exhibition at Espace
Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France)
2011 "In Return", Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 "Trans Knitting", Lethal Lesbian Festival, Barzilay, Tel Aviv
2009 "CrocheFiction", "Returning the Girls" Event, The Block, Tel Aviv
2002 "Omanut O Manush" (Art or Vagina - slang) , Bezalel Academy, Senior exhibition, Jerusalem
2000 "Banana Split", Beit Haam Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022 "100 misunderstandings about and among Jews", Jewish Museum Vienna, Austria
2022 “Reality Check: Inner Sanctum”, Dafni Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece
2022 “Always Have Been, Always Will Be”, Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem
2020 “NonFinito”, Artport, Tel Aviv
2020 “Wilds Ago, Phantom of Youth”, from Haaretz Collection, Minus One gallery, Tel Aviv
2019 “Axe Bear Crow”, Artport, Tel Aviv
2019 “Drop Dead Funny”, The House of the Lords of Kunstat, Brno, Czech Republic
2019 “Not The End”, Living History Forum, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 “Dread & Delight”, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, NC
2018 “Reprise - summer show”, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC
2018 “Queer Biennial - What If Utopia”, Navel, Los Angeles, CA
2018 “Violated: Women in Holocaust and Genocide”, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC
2018 “RE:Formation of the Jewish Body”, American Jewish University, Bel Air, CA
2017 “Dangerous Art”, Haifa Museum of Art
2017 "Woven and Untangled", Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2016 "Under the pressure of history", The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2016 "Wire(less)", the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2016 "Moving Image" Art Fair, NYC
2016 "(SIGNAL)", Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2016 "Kumzitz", KIT museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 "Traversing Tradition", Jewish Theological Seminary, NYC
2016 "Repetitive Motifs in Ritual Objects and in Contemporary Art", Mane Katz Museum, Haifa
2015 "Passage - A Day In Eternity", Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
2015 “Relocation”, Herzliya Museum, Herzliya
2015 "Repetition and Difference", The Jewish Museum, NYC
2015 "The Power of Word", Sapir College, Sderot
2014 "Woven Consciousness", Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2014 "Traces V" - The Fifth Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem
2014 "Femme Fatale", Shun Gallery, Shanghai, China
2013 "Moving Image" Art Fair, London - with Ronald Feldman Fine Art, GB
2013 "Otherness - I is Somebody Else", Culturel Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2013 "Eth(n)ics", Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 "About Stupidity", Petach Tikva Museum
2013 Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan
2012 "Galicia Mon Amour: Folly, Fantasy and Phantasm", Sokol Gallery, Nowy Sacz, Poland
2012 "The Gatewatcher", Maatschappij Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012 "Cosmopolitan Stranger", off - Manifesta 9, Hasselt, Belgium
2012 "Have We Met Before", Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC
2012 ARTIS "Pop - Up Store" at NADA Art Fair, Dia Chelsea, NYC
2011 "Body Without Body", Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
2011 "I Refuse To Be Your Enemy", City hall square of Oslo, Norway
2010 "Signals", Bat Yam Museum (MOBY)
2010 "Let It Bleed'', Participant Inc, NYC
2009 Animamix Biennial "Attract and Attack", MOCA museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 "Wild Exaggeration", Haifa Museum
2008 "The Raft of Medusa", Worchow, Krakow, Poland
2007 "Boys Craft" , Haifa Museum
2006 "Men", Ramat Gan Museum for Israeli art
2002 "Chambers", Herzliya museum of art
Selected Collections:
The Jewish Museum – NYC
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
The Tel Aviv Museum
The Herzliya Museum
The Schocken Collection, Tel Aviv
The Bronner Family Collection, Düsseldorf