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November 23, 2022
Michal Chelbin: ‘In Their Own Words’ | Solo Exhibition at Photo:Israel Festival
Curator: Ya’ara Raz Haklai | Enav Cultural Center & City Garden, Tel Aviv ׀ November 23-December 3, 2022 | Gallery Talk: 24.11.2022, 20:30-22:00 Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, millions of Ukrainian refugees found themselves escaping areas harmed and destroyed by the war. Seeking safety, they fled to neighboring countries... ...
December 2, 2021
Michal Chelbin: ‘Make/Believe’ | Solo Exhibition at Chelouche Gallery Artist Residency, 2021
Curators: Nira Itzhaki, Nimrod Vainer In Michal Chelbin’s new exhibition photographs from five series, which Chelbin has created since the early 2000s until these days, are shown. At the center of the pieces, young adults are apparent – the heroines and heroes of the show. Chelbin has portraited these during photography excursions in Russia, Eastern... ...
Biography
Michal Chelbin (b. 1974, Israel) is a critically acclaimed photographer whose work has been widely shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Her work can be found in many private and public collections, such as: The Metropolitan Museum New York, LACMA, Getty Center LA, Jewish Museum New York, Cleveland Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Sir Elton John collection, SF Moma and more.
Michal is a regular contributor to the world’s leading magazines, such as: The New York Times magazine, The New Yorker, BusinessWeek, GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, Le Monde and others. Notable fashion collaborations include Pierre Cardin, Gucci, Dior Homme, Hed Mayner and Armani.
Her critically acclaimed Monograph Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes and other Traveling Troupes was published by Aperture in 2008 and was awarded PDN’s Photo Annual Book Award in 2009. Her next monograph entitled The Black Eye was published in June 2010 by Twin Palms Publishers, with solo exhibitions in October 2010 at Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York and M+B gallery in LA.
Her third monograph entitled “Sailboats and Swans” was published in fall 2012 by Twin Palms Publishers with solo exhibition at Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York.
Michal’s fourth monograph entitled “How to Dance the Waltz” was published in Spring 2021 by Damiani Publishers, with a solo show at Clampart NYC.
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Israel
Lives and works in Ofer, Israel
EDUCATION
2001 Graduated with Honors, Dept. of Photography, Wizo Academy of Education and Design, Haifa, Israel
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Daydreamers,” Chelouche Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2023 “Sailboats and Swans,” ClampArt, NYC
2021 “Make/Believe”, Chelouche Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2015 “Raw Iron”, Video Installation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2013 Sailboats and Swans, Hellenic Center for Photography, Athens, Greece
2012 Sailboats and Swans, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2010 Strangely Familiar, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
The Black Eye, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
The Black Eye, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
The Black Eye, Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam
2008 Strangely Familiar, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Strangely Familiar, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2007 Strangely Familiar, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland
2004 Recent Photographs, Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Vitalina and Friends, Lohamei Haghetaot Gallery, Israel
2002 Lazarova, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA
Lazarova, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2000 Vitalina and Friends, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Photo Is:Real, Enav Center
2020 No Windows, Haifa Museum
2019 Unseen, from the Getty Collection, Getty Center LA
2018 From the collection, Jewish Museum New York
2018 A place for Fashion, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2016 “Utopia/Dystopia”, Haifa Museum of Art
2014 Voices of Incarceration, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount Univ., CA
2013 Israel Now – Reinventing The Future, The MACRO Museum, Italy
2012 A Prayer is a Prayer is a Prayer, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
The Under Toad, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
2011 Making Room: Contemporary Israeli Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2011 Recent Acquisitions, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2010 The Grip/La Mainmise, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
2009 Taylor Wessing Portrait Competition, The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2009 The Aipad Show, New York
2008 Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Museum, MA
2008 5 Female Photographer’s, The photographer’s gallery, London
2006 Not all of Man’s friends are dogs, Fahey Klein Gallery, LA
2006 Photography Now, Woodstock, NY
2005 The Children’s Hour, Museum of New Art, Detroit
2005 Fotografia, Hendrik Andresen Museum, Rome
2004 Spread In Prato, Italy
2003 From the collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2002 Artist of the Ideal, Verona, Italy
AWARDS
2016 Ministry of culture award
2009 Third Place, Taylor Wessing Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, UK
Best Photography Book, PDN Photo Annual
2007 Constantiner Award for Photography –Tel Aviv
2005 Young Israeli Photographer Prize
Haifa Museum- Raphael Angel Fund
Joshua Rabinowitz Fund for the Arts Grant
2004 Oscar Hendler Prize, Oscar Hendler Fund- Lohamei Haghetaot Gallery
Israel Lottery Grant, Dialogue with Classics, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2003 Joshua Rabinowitz Fund for the Arts Grant
Israel Lottery Grant to Support International Artists
Dudu Dotan Artist Support Fund
Artist in Residence, Hammeau des Artistes, Paris, France
2002 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship
MONOGRAPHS
2021 How to Dance the Waltz, Damiani
2012 Sailboats and Swans, Twin Palms Publishers
2010 The Black Eye, Twin Palms Publishers
2008 Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes and Other Traveling Troupes, Aperture,
SELECTED PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
LACMA
The Collection of Sir Elton John, London
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Jewish Museum, New York
The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
The Portland Museum of Art
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Haifa Museum of Art
