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August 19, 2021
‘Rooms’: Group Exhibition at Chelouche Gallery Residency, 2021
Eight artists were invited to present their works at the exhibition ‘ROOMS’: Tal Amitai-Lavi, Nadav Weissman, Dana Yoeli, Shai Yehezkeli, Amir Naveh, Tomer Sapir, Assaf Rahat and Tal Shoshan. On this occasion new bodies of work are unveiled in various mediums and creative processes that are usually hidden from view. ...
July 10, 2021
Shai Yehezkelli: ‘Slippery Slope’ | Solo Exhibition at Beit Uri and Rami Nehoshtan 10.7.2021-2.10.2021
Smadar Keren Text for “Slippery Slope”, Beit Uri and Rami Nehoshtan Museum, 2021 Two series of paintings from the past year are at the core of Shai Yehezkelli’s exhibition. `Star of Redemption,’ a grouping of four works, each with a flawed star at its center, and ‘Slippery Slope,’ a trio of paintings that feature... ...
February 14, 2020
‘Black Sun’ | Group exhibition at Chelouche Gallery
‘Black sun’ presenting works by the artists: Uri Gershuni, Assaf Rahat, Amir Nave, Dana Yoeli, William Kentridge, Tal Shoshan, Yadid Rubin, Miki Kratsman, Shai Yehezkelli, Tomer Sapir, Tom Pnini Curator: Nira Itzhaki The group exhibition Black Sun in Chelouche Gallery confronts the charged concept of a ‘Black Sun’ through works in various mediums. The works... ...
December 2, 2019
Galllery Talk with Shai Yehezkelli | Saturday 7.12.19 at 12pm | Chelouche Gallery
Chelouche Gallery cordially invites you to Gallery Talk with Shai Yehezkelli at his solo exhibition The Great Siesta Saturday 7.12.19 at 12 pm For the review by Ouzi Zur in Haaretz newspaper (Hebrew, for subscribers only) press the link–> http://bit.ly/2ry6UE6 ...
October 18, 2019
Opening tomorrow | solo exhibition by Shai Yehezkelli | “The Great Siesta” at Chelouche Gallery
Opening of the solo exhibition: Shai Yehezkelli | The Great Siesta Opening: Thursday 31.10.19 at 20:00 Chelouche Gallery, 7 Mazeh St. TLV Chelouche Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Shai Yehezkelli’s solo exhibition “The Great Siesta” on Thursday 31.10.19 at 20:00 The solo exhibition “The Great Siesta” by artist Shai Yehezkelli exhibits a... ...
Biography
Shai Yehezkelli (born 1979, Israel), holds an MFA from the Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv (2010), and a BFA with Highest Honor (”Summa Cum Laude”) from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2006).
His solo exhibitions include: “The Great Siesta” (2019, Chelouche Gallery TLV), “Maarava” (2019, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami), “Nothing Went Wrong to Write Home About” (2018, 2025 eV, Hamburg), ‘In Praise of Avalanche’, (2016, Tel Aviv Museum of Art), “Space C” (2012, Haifa museum of Art), and he is part of The Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel Permanent collection.
Yehezkelli was awarded The Rappaport Prize for young Israeli artist (2015), the Bank Leumi Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievements (2006) and the Arieli History & Theory Department Prize for excellent achievements, Bezalel academy (2006). He also received a grant from The Israeli Lottery Culture-Council in 2014.
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
2008-2010- M.F.A. degree at the Bezalel academy of art & design, Tel Aviv
2002-2006- B.F.A. degree with highest honor (”Summa Cum Laude”) At the Bezalel academy of art & design, Jerusalem
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 – Shadows on a Mountainside, Chelouche Gallery
2021 – Slippery Slope, Beit Uri and Rami Nehoshtan
2019 – “The Great Siesta”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2019 – “Maarava”, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami
2018 – “Heel To Toe”, Oded Shatil Contemporary Art Space, Tel-Aviv
2018 – ‘Nothing Went Wrong to Write Home About”, 2025 eV, Hamburg
2016 – ‘In Praise of Avalanche’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2014 – ‘With Philistines”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 – “Forever Sweat-Beads”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 – “Space C”, Haifa museum of Art
2009 – ‘Shouldn’t, Couldn’t, Wouldn’t’, Darom Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 – ‘Fountain’- Solo gallery, Tel Aviv
Two-Person Shows:
2021 – “The Lone Rider and the Wandering Jew” With Asad Azi, The Open University gallery, Kfar Saba
2021 – “Risico” with Ron Asulin, Atelier Shemi, Kabri
2019 – “Support Beam Fall” with Eden Bannet, Emmuna college, Jerusalem
2014 – “Abigail Hopkins. Shai Yehezkelli”, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 – “Depression Delights” with Sharon Fadida, The New & Bad gallery, Haifa
2007 – “Chay Tseeyurim” with Ran Keydar, Barbur gallery, Jerusalem
Selected group exhibitions:
2022 – “Extended Mindsets” | Group Exhibition at The New Gallery Teddy, Jerusalem
2022 – “Europa” | Group Exhibition at Halal Bastudio
2022 – “Works on Paper” | Harkawik gallery, New York
2022 – “Men Who Paint Flowers” | Mindy Solomon gallery, Miami
2022 – “Shai Yehezkelli | Ester Shneider | Siona Shimshi” | The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv
2021 – “Les Crimes de L’amour” | Hagaleria Hagdola, Shenkar College of Art, Tel Aviv
2021 – “Rooms” | Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2021 – “Laying Under the Hot Shade of a Mad Song” | Ombrella gallery, Copenhagen
2020 – “The Story of Pesach” | Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2020 – “Expanded Book ” | Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
2020 – “Big in Minshar” | Minshar Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2020 – “Black Sun” | Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2019 – “Hidden Hour” | Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida
2019 – “Maarbolot” | Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2018 – “Collector’s Bedroom” | Hansen, Jerusalem
2018 – “Stav”, Maya Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2018 – “No Other Place – Decade Exhibition”, The Tel Aviv Convention Center
2018 – “The Origin of Who U Are Right Now”, Kvadrat16 gallery, Copenhagen
2018 – “Between Walls”, Binyamin gallery, Tel-Aviv
2018 – “Weisse Weste”, Il Caminetto, Hamburg
2017 – “There Will Be Nothing”, MFA Gallery of Bezalel Academy, Tel-Aviv
2017 – “Art after Chagall. The Breakthrough Century”, The Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel
2017 – “Paper Cuts”, The Manchester Contemporary art fair
2017 – “We Are The Ones Doing Works On Canvas”, Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Denmark
2017 – “Neuland”, The Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel
2017 – “Ingathering: 10th Anniversary of the Rappaport Prize for a Young/Established Israeli Artist”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2016 – “Talush”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2016 – “Traces III – The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel”, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2016 – “Art Camp 2016: Art Activists”, The Negev Museum of Art
2016 – “Pop Up”, Julie M. gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 – “Open Sketchbooks”, Hezliya Museum for Contemporary Art
2015 – “Good Taste”, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 – “Suspected Urge”, Gabirol gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 – “Mind the Gap”, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 – “Nehushtan” , Chelouche gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 – “Goods” (“Tuvin”), MOBY (Museum of Bat-Yam)
2013 – “BlackBox” Billboards project, Jerusalem
2012 – “2112”, The Artist House, Tel-Aviv
2012 – “Painting Camp #5” , Ramlāh’s Local Gallery, Ramlāh
2012 – “BAAD Influence”, BAAD Gallery, Bezalel, Tel-Aviv
2012 – “Sigh of relief”, Beit Uri Nehoshtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov
2011 – “Ch’atima Tova”, Inga gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 – “Gush”, Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 – “Formally Speaking: And what shall we do with painting in the 21st century?”, Haifa museum of Art
2011 – “Execution”, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 – “Sweatshops”, Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 – “Contemporary”, Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 – “Fresh Paint #4” Art Fair, The Botanical Gardens, Tel-Aviv
2010 – “Salame 10”, Graduate exhibition, Master in Fine Art, The Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 – “Fountain of youth”, Temporary States gallery, New York
2009 – “The invisible dog”, No Longer Empty gallery, New York
2009 – “4 openings in Israeli art“, The Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 – “Art TLV” Biennial, Neve Tzedek tower site, Tel Aviv
2009 – “Your cat is dead, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 – “A+4”, The GSA, Glasgow
2009 – “Artists at work”, Hagada Hasmalit, Tel Aviv
2009 – “The degenerate art”, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 – “Night and day”, Gilit Fisher gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 – “Covering the sun”, Barbur gallery, Jerusalem
2008 – “True Love”, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 – “Bechorot” , Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 – “Desert generation”, the artists house, Jerusalem & Hakibutz gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 – “Cats” , Eretz Israel museum, Tel Aviv
2007 – “Reshamim-3rd drawing biennial, The Artists house, Jerusalem
2007 – “Beyond the principle”, Hamidrasha gallery, Beit Berl
2007 – “Fresh Paint #1” Art Fair, Kastiel site, Tel-Aviv
2006 – “Half-board”. Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 – Graduates exhibition, Terminal 1, The Ben-Gurion airport
Grants, residencies & awards:
2018 – Artist-in-residence, Achterhaus Ateliergemeinschaft, Hamburg
2017 – Artist-in-residence at the Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz (The Jewish Museum of Switzerland), June-September
2016 – Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts grant for publishing the catalog of the Tel-Aviv Museum show “In Praise of Avalanche”
2015 – Awarded the Rappaport prize for a Young Israeli Artist.
2014 – Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts grant for the publishing of the artist-book “Cocks and Tits and Hurt Feelings”
2011 – Chosen Lecturing Artist for “Sal Tarbut” program.
2010 – Awarded the Bezalel MFA program award, Bezalel Academy.
2006 – Awarded the “Leumi” art department prize for excellent Achievements, Bezalel academy.
2006 – Awarded the “Arieli” history & theory department prize for excellent achievements, Bezalel academy.
2005 – Awarded the art department prize for excellent achievements, Bezalel academy.
Selected Publications:
* Bezalel Journal of Visual and Material Culture – Issue 7 ‘The Philosophies and the Arts’, December 2022 (Editor: Adam Abulafia)
* Hoshech – Art and Literature 2021 (Editors: Ido Gordon & David Duvshani)
* Continent – Cover for Shlomi Hatuka’s book, 2020(Tangier pub. )
* Nanopoetics 19 – Anthology of Hebrew Conceptual Writing, 2020 (Editor: Alex Ben Ari, Place for Poetry pub. )
* Ingathering – Exhibition catalog, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, 2017 (Curator: Anat Danon Sivan)
* ‘In Praise of Avalanche’- Solo Exhibition catalog 2016, Tel Aviv Museum of Art , 2016
* Talush (Rootless) – Exhibition catalog, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, 2016
* Maayan Magazine: Patriotism in Art, Protest Anthology, Summer – Autumn 2016 /Issue No. 12
* Cocks and Tits and Hurt Feelings, 2014 (Artist Book, self published)
* Israel/One: Contemporary Artists from Israel (2014, Published by Fabrica, Italy)
* Pe’amim, Studies in oriental Jewry, Issue No. 133-134, Literature / Thought / Magic,2012-2013 (Ben-Zvi Institute)
* Man On Fire (2012, Curator: Guy Ben Ari, Published by Meta Meta Meta LLC, NYC)
* Criterion Magazine, Issue No.4, September 2012 /”Iconoclasm”
* The New & Bad Art Magazine, Summer – Autumn 2012 /Issue No. 3
* Formally Speaking: And what shall we do with painting in the 21st century? Exhibition catalog (2011, Haifa Museum of Art)
* Leumi Art Collection: Selected Works (2010, Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir Pub.)
