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EINAT AMIR

 

 

Born 1979, Israel

Lives in New York and Tel Aviv

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2009

MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York

 

2004

Hamidrasha School of Art; Beit Berl College, Israel

B.ed (with honors). Major: Visual Arts

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCE

 

2014

Artists Film Festival, curated by Çelenk Bafra, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey 

BORROWORROB: In Search of Symmetry, curated by Peter Macapia, Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Zagreb, Croatia

 

2013

I will be your guide for this session, Artist's Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London 

Our Best Intentions, Performa 13, New York 

Our Best Intentions, Petach Tikvah Museum of Art, Israel

Enough About You, Scope Art Fair, Miami, Florida

Petah Tikva Museum

 

Petah Tikva Museum
Petah Tikva Museum

2012

Enough About You, Roskilde Festival, Denmark (performance)

Choreography for a Single Viewer, Tmuna Theater, Israel (performance)

 

2011

___ Please, MLAC, Rome, Italy

Enough About You, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden

 

2010

The Holistic Healing Center, a collaboration with Arlen Austin, VOLTA, New York

 

2009

Men, MoMA PS1, New York

Ideal Viewer (Phase One, Phase Two), Performa09, Scaramouche, New York

Ideal Viewer, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2007

Acknowledgment, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2005

Disgraceful Retreat under Pressure, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herziliya, Israel

Killing Me Softly, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

I’m Every Woman, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Be’eri, Israel

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2014

BORROWORROB: In Search of Symmetry, curated by Peter Macapia, Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Zagreb, Croatia

 

2013

Non Finito, Artport Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Yes Minister, Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2012

This & There, Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard with the Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Palais de Tokyo Creation Laboratory, Paris, France

I Just Want to Be Loved, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy

ACTS – Festival for Performative Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark

Roskilde Festival, “Enough About You” performance presented in collaboration with Lilith Performance Studio, Roskilde, Denmark

A- GENRE Festival, premiere of "Choreography for A Single Viewer", Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2011

Index Of /, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
Le Rayon Vert, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

I Just Want to be Loved, (Map Project) MAGA-Museo Arte, Gallarate, Italy

No Sense of Place, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

Gatekeepers, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

The Lost Art of Travelers, Dallas Contemporary Art Center, Texas

To Name a Day, Terminal Convention Art Festival, Cork, Ireland

 

2010

Signals, Bat Yam Museum, Bat Yam, Israel

Art in Odd Places Festival, New York

Absolutely Other, The Kitchen, New York

The Calm Before the Storm, Winzavod Art Center, Moscow, Russia

 

2009

Remember to Remember, VOLTA Basel art fair, Basel, Switzerland

Columbia University Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition, New York

The Practice of Joy Before Death; It just would not be a party without you, Scaramouche, New York

 

2008

A New Way of Seeing, Städtische galerie, Bremen, Germany

Ratti Foundation 2008 Program for Visual Arts, Care Of Gallery, Milan, Italy

Good Kids, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

First Year MFA Show, Columbia University, New York

 

2007

This is not Israeli Art, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2006

The Archive, Digital Art Center, Hulon, Israel

Presence of Unknowing, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel

 

2005

Gaza as Love, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Liga, Tel Aviv Port, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2004

You Don’t Look Hungry, Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv

Graduates’ exhibit, Hamidrasha School of Art,  Beit Berl, Israel

 

 

SELECTED SCREENINGS OF WORKS

 

2013

Joseph Tang Gallery, Paris, France

Einat Amir - Women Dancing, Containall, Prague, Czech Republic

 

2008

Come Out and Play, APEXART, New York

Platforma Video Festival, Athens, Greece

Video_Dumbo, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

 

2007

Video - Performance - Happening, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

100 Years of Art in Israel, a Television Series, Channel Two, Israel

 

2006

Act Art 4, London, U.K.

Israeli Art Week, Makor Gallery, New York

Removing Dresses, Putting on Ideology, a Seminar, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2005

Final Flash City Festival, Ambasada Gavioli, Izola,Slovenia

 

2004

Video Zone 2: The 2nd International Video-Art Biennial, Sderot Cinemateque, Sderot, Israel

 

2002

Juried student screening, Sderot Cinemateques, Sderot, Israel

 

 

RESIDENCIES, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

 

2014

The Jackman Goldwasser Residency, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 

 

2013

Artist Grant Recipient, Artport The Center for Young Art Residency, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2012

Israeli Pais Art and Culture Council Grant Recipient, Israel

Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Grant Recipient

Ostrovsky Family Fund, Grant Recipient

Franklin Furnace Grant Recipient, New York

The Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Israel

 

2011

Palais de Tokyo, La Pavillon, Paris, France

 

2009

Artis Grant Recipient

 

2008

Antonio Ratti Foundation, Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Como, Italy

 

2007-2009

Artist Fellowship, Columbia University, New York

Agnes Martin Scholarship, Columbia University, New York

Study Fellowship, America – Israel Cultural Foundation, Israel

Toms Visual Art fellowship, Columbia University, New York

 

2004

Excellency Award, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl, Israel

 

2001-2004

Study Fellowship for outstanding students, Ministry of Education, Israel

 

 

CURATION

 

2007

Four Generations of Feminism in Israeli Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

 

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Scaramouche, NYC

Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

Rotchild 69, Israel

Private collections, Israel