Yael Yudkovik (B. Kfar Giladi) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her main body of work is made of installations of sculptures combined with photography and drawings. She lives and teaches in Tel-Aviv. Yudkovik graduated the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, with a BA, and later studied psychology.
She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including: “Moby Dick” (installation “Infamy club”), The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Dalit Matatyahu; “Aviva – a Way of an Elephant”, Sharon Glazberg, Rothschild 69, Tel–Aviv. Her works were purchased to numerous collections, including: Bandman Collection, Tokyo; The ST-ARTcollection, Serge Tiroche, Jaffa, Israel; Yoram Tietz, Collection, Israel and other private collections.
She is the winner of Bezalel Excellence Award – Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem; Sharett Fund Scholarship – America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Young Artists; Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Award; Yehushua Rabinovich Arts foundation Tel Aviv; Mifal Ha’pais Culture and Art Council Foundation; ArtLink Sotheby’s International Young Art 2004 program.
Born in Israel.
Lives and works in Tel-Aviv
Military Service
Served as producer and current affairs programming editor on, ‘Galey Zahal’, the IDF radio station 1989
Studies
1998 Psychology studies, Social Sciences, University of Tel-Aviv
1996 Graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Awards and Scholarships
2004 ArtLink Sotheby’s International Young Art 2004 program
2002 Mifal Ha’pais Culture and Art Council Foundation
2002 Israel Performance Artists’ Union Foundation
2001 Yehushua Rabinovich Arts foundation Tel Aviv
2001 Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Award
1995 Sharett Fund Scholarship – America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Young Artists
1994 Sharett Fund Scholarship – America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Young Artists
1993 Bezalel Excellence Award – Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Solo Exhibitions
2023 “My Death Came To Me Suddenly”, Chelouche Gallery, TLV, Curator: Nira Itzhaki
2019 “The Annual Conference on the Prevention and Care of Pressure Ulcers”, Chelouche Gallery, TLV, Curator: Nira Itzhaki.
2013 “Infamy club”, Installation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Dalit Matatyahu.
2012 “Acting charaters”, Works on Paper ,Shine, Tel-Aviv, Curator Dr. Neta Sobol
2011 “The Hunters”, Installation, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Ravit Harari
2004 “Data Rouge”, Drawing, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Tali Tamir
2003 “project Polynomos”, In the foyer space of Bat-Dor Dance,Tel Aviv.
2002 “WhiteLand”, Multimedia, Ha’gada Ha’smalit, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Dror Elimelech.
2001 “WhiteLand”, Installation, Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Shlomit Shaked
Group Exhibitions
2022 “Alfa”, Untitled (Behind), Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Curator: Shahar Shalev
2020 “Weaves”, Installation, Artspace Tel-Aviv, Curator: Dalia Danon.
2019 “Black knife”, The Seventh Biennale of Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Curator: Irena Gordon.
2013 “Moby Dick”, Installation “Infamy club”, drawing “Untitled (Black)”,
Photography ” Untitled (Behind)”, “Untitled (Between)”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Dalit Matatyahu
2012 “Chozer Chalila”, Works on Paper, Binyamin Gallery, Tel –Aviv,
Curator: Karmit Galili
2011 “Abdominal Pain”, Installation: “on the couch”, The ST-ART collection Serge Tiroche, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Liora Belford
2011 “Stairs”, Works on Paper, Alma-Home for Hebrew Culture, Tel-Aviv, Curator: hinda Weiss
2011 “Hell”, Photos: “Self- Portrait with Skull”, “How do you spell hell?”, Gerestein Gallery, Tel–Aviv, Curator: Nurit Tal-Tenne
2010 “Survival”, Objects, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel- Aviv, Curator: Ofra Harnam
2009 “Teeth”, New York
2009 “In The Same Breath”, Photography Group Exhibition, “Untitled Berlin”, Tavi resdner Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Yael Yudkovik
2009 “Topography”, installation: “Exercises in territory”, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel- Aviv, Curator: Dresdner Tamar
2007 “7 sculptors”, installation: “three urinals”, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator:Tamar Dresdner
2005 “Nuclear Family”, drawing on newspaper: “Manpower”, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Tali Ben-Nun
2005 “Togetherness”, installation: “A Collective set free”, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Curator:Tali Tamir
2005 “International drawings exhibition”, Pavillion De Arteixo, Museum of Art, Spain
2004 “You Don’t Seem Hungry To Me”, Drawing, Limbus Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curators: Michal Shamir
2004 “OverCraft” – Obsession, Decoration and Biting Beauty, installation: “Polynomos”,
Artists’ House, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Tami Katz-Frieman
2004 “ArtTour”, Works on Paper, Beit Shlush, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Smadar Keren
2003 “OverCraft” – Obsession, Decoration and Biting Beauty, installation: “Polynomos”,
The Art Gallery, University of Haifa, Curator: Tami Katz-Frieman
2002 “slow flow”, Outside Installation, Berlin
1996 “Graduates in Center” – Bezalel Academy of Art and Design graduates exhibition,
Dizingoff Center, Tel-Aviv
1995 “Keren Sharett Grant Winners”, 0bjects, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Works in Private Collections
2019 “ The Annual Conference on the Prevention and Care of Pressure Ulcers” , Federman Collection
2014 ” Untitled (Behind)” , “Untitled (Black)” , David Bartholdy Collection,
2013 “Untitled (Black)”, Yoram Tietz, Collection, Israel
2011 “Fallow Deer”, The ST-ARTcollection, Serge Tiroche, Jaffa, Israel
2003 “Polynomos” Bandman Collection, Tokyo
2001 “WhiteLand”, Bandman Collection, Tokyo
Curatorial
2010 “Aviva – a Way of an Elephant”, Sharon Glazberg, Rothschild 69, Tel–Aviv
2009 “In The Same Breath”, Photography Group Exhibition, Tavi Dresdner, Gallery, Tel-Aviv
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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