Nir Evron was born in 1974 in Herzeliya, Israel and is based in Tel Aviv.
He completed a BFA degree in photography at Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem in 2001 and an MFA degree in media art at the Slade School of Art, London in 2005.
He has exhibited extensively in Israel and abroad in museums, festivals, biennales and galleries. Among those: Tel Aviv museum (2016); LA><ART, Los Angeles (2014); New Museum, New York (2014); the 19th Biennial of Sydney (2014); the Israel Museum (2014); the ICP triennial, New York (2013); the 6th Berlin Biennale (2010); MARCO Vigo, The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (2014, 2011); 25 FPS, Zagreb, the Rotterdam International Film Festival (2012), Rotterdam; PhotoEspana, Madrid.
He was awarded the Miron Sima Visual Arts Award (2015), The Ostrovsky Family Fund Award at the (2011), the Israel’s Minister of Culture ‘Art Encouragement’ Award (2011), the Sam Givon Award from the Tel Aviv Museum (2008), Israel’s Minister of Culture award for a young artist (2007).
Nir Evron's work explores historical memory, constructed representation and the link to space through processes of revelation and abstraction. Often politically charged, Evron pushes the boundaries of film, video and photography; stepping away from direct representation, he conceives new interpretations of time and space.
Born 1974, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Education
2005 MFA Fine Art Media Department, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2001 BFA Photography and Media Department, Bezalel Academy for Art, Jerusalem
1999 École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris (Atelier Jean-Marc Bustamante)
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Masad, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2015 Projected Claims, VCU Institute for Contemporary Art, Depot Gallery, Richmond
Endurance, Davide Gallo Gallery, Milano
Threefold, Miron Sima Visual Arts Award 2015, the Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem
2014 Rehearsing the Spectacle of Specters (with Omer Krieger). Circle 1, Berlin
Endurance, LAXART, Los Angeles
Rehearsing the Spectacle of Specters (with Omer Krieger), Kibbutz Be'eri Gallery
2013 Schemen – Narration und Videokunst. E-WERK, Freiburg (DE)
2012 Thread (with Danny Yahav-Brown), Oranim College of Education Gallery, Tivon
2011 Here-After, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2008 Generator, The Artists' Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 Serpentine, The Artists' Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 Herzeliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzeliya, Israel (curator: Dalia Levin)
2003 Schwartz, The Photographers Gallery, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2020 Sight Lines, Nir Evron Group exhibition at Artport Tel aviv
2019 Wild Things: Disrupting the Photographic Archive, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Curator: Robert Hirsch
2019 Fly Me to the Moon: the lunar landing: 50 years later, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg in cooperation with the Kunsthaus Zürich, Curators: Thorsten Sadowsky with Christina Penetsdorfer and Tina Teufel, Conception: Cathérine Hug, Kunsthaus Zürich
2019 Fly Me to the Moon: The Moon Landing: 50 years on, Kunsthaus Zürich. Curator: Cathérine Hug.
2018 'Turbulences', CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2017 'The Other Side', Chelouche gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Nira Itzhaki
2017 The Still Point of the Turning World – Between Film and Photography, FOMU Foto Museum, Antwerpen Belguim, Curators: David Campany & Joachim Naudts
2016 Untitled, Group Exhibition, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Preaching to the Choir, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art. Curator: Maayan Sheleff
The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards, Jerusalem Film Festival
Visions of Place, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers-Camden, New Jersey. Curators: Martin Rosenberg and J.Susan Isaacs
Miki Krtasman, Uri Gershuni, Nir Evron – Recent works, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Great Ephemeral, New Museum, New York. Co-presented by Taipei Contemporary Art Center
The Century Mark – Tel Aviv Museum of Art Visits Berlin, Modern and Contemporary Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2014 Utopian City, Survival Kit 6 International Contemporary Art Festival, Riga
19th Biennale of Sydney "The Long Program", Carriageworks, Sydney
Journeys, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Vidéographies Festival, the Ulg Opéra Complex, Liège, Belgium
2013 1st Beijing Photo Biennial: Aura and Post Aura, Beijing
The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Video from Israel, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
Back to the Heichal, the Charles Bronfman Auditorium. Art Director: Yehudit Shapira Haviv, Curator: Raz Samira
Host & Guest, Tel-Aviv Musem of Art, Israel
A Different Kind of Order, the ICP 2013 Triennial, New York, USA
Panorama, Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Home Moves #2 – 21er Haus – Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
Re: Visiting Rockefeller, Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
25 FPS, the International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
Prizes in Art and Design 2011, Petach-Tikwa Museum, Israel
Loop art fair, Barcelona, Spain
Image Anxiety, PhotoEspania, Madrid, Spain
2012 Michel Rein gallery, Paris, France
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Deviants, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
In the Name of Protest, Beit Avi Chai, Jerusalem, Israel
Making Room: Contemporary Israeli Photography, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2011 The Second Strike, The 3rd Herzliya Biennale for Art, Israel
The Seam Line, Dana Gallery. Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel
The Experimental and Video-Art Competition. The Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel
2010 The 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Germany
Overview – Israeli Video 2000-2010. Haifa Museum of Art, Israel.
'Evet' – Hamidrasha Gallery. Tel Aviv, Israel
Oz In The City, Performance Events. Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid. Paris, France
The 2nd Herzeliya Biennial for Art, Israel
Our Time, Small Box 28, Centro Hospilatar Psiquiatrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Zulu, Nahum Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Hidden Secrets, The Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel
Echoes Of Time And Place, The Jerusalem Cinematheque, Israel
The Age Of A Different Re-Action, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany
2008 Pulse Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, USA
Visits To (Some)Where, BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland
Untamed Paradises, MARCO Vigo & CAAC Sevilla, Spain
The Prize Winners 2007, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Click-Clack, University of Haifa, The Art Gallery, Israel
Vergescapes, Tivom Memorial Center Gallery, Tivon, Israel.
2007 Passage, Video Art screening at the Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 The Third Generation, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 We Are So Much Better Than This, Studio 27, San Francisco. USA
The Impossible Landscape, UMASS Gallery, Amherst, USA
VideoZone 3. The International Video-Art Biennial in Tel Aviv, Israel
Black-Implication Flooding, Colony Gallery, Birmingham, U.K
Cortisane – Short Film, Video and New Media Festival, Ghent, Belgium
Athens Video Art Festival, Greece
2004 SNAP! Diorama Gallery, London, U.K
2003 Artik 5, Ramat Gan Museum of Art, Israel
2002 Florocent 5, Florocent Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Collapse, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Catalogues
‘Here-After’ The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
“What is waiting out there?”The 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Overview – Israeli Video Art 2000-2010. Haifa Museum of Art
The 2nd Herzeliya Biennial, Picnic Magazine issue #4.
Journey And Adventure In Israeli Art. Nahum Gutman Museum
Israel’s Minister Of Culture Award Catalogue 2007
Click-Clack Homage To The Slide Projector, Haifa University
Untamed Paradises, MARCO Vigo & CAAC Sevilla.
Awards and Scholarships
2015 The Miron Sima Visual Arts Award, Israel
2012 The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Israel
Artis International Grant Recipient, Israel
2011 Israel’s Minister of Culture ‘Art Encouragement’ Award
The Ostrovsky Family Fund prize for Video-Art and Experimental Cinema
2010 Video Art Fund, Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 The Tel Aviv Museum ‘Shmuel Givon’ Prize for Young Artist.
Video Art Fund, Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Israel's Minister Of Culture Prize for Young Artist,
2005 Video Art Fund, Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Project Award, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2004 The Thomas Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art
2003 America Israel Cultural Foundation Award for Young Artist
Collections
The Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt
La Caixa Foundation, Madrid
Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Collection
The Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem
Zabludowicz Collection – London
Amos Schocken 'Haaretz' Publishing Group Collection
Ze’ev Holztman Collection – Tel Aviv
Private Collections
Teaching
2007-Present The Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
2009-Present Video Department, Hamidrasha Art College, Beit-Berl, Israel
Chelouche Gallery is one of the most prominent and leading galleries in Israel. Located in Tel Aviv, Chelouche Gallery maintains its primacy by presenting a large variety of works, ranging from video art to sculpture, painting, installation and photography. Since its inception, the gallery has been promoting an international and local exhibition program, in collaboration with curators and artists from Israel and around the world, placing itself one step ahead in the Israeli contemporary art scene.
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