Catalog # 31 Simcha Shirman
About the artist:
Born in 1947 in Germany and immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1948
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Education
1976 Received his B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts, New York
1978 Received his M.F.A from the Pratt Institute, New York
1985 present Courses at the Tel Aviv University in the following subjects: Sociology, Hebrew Literature, Israeli Film and History of Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1974 Objects in Motion and other Photographs, Dizengoff Gallery, Tel Aviv
1978 Photographs, MFA exhibition, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York
1981 19 Inch Television, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1984 Photographs from Lebanon, Pratt Institute, New York
1986 Simcha Shirman-Photographic Works
1982-1986 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1988 Between Reality and Remembrance, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1989 Holiday Inn The Obligation to feel a Stranger, David Tower, Jerusalem
Photographs, Art Gallery Kibbutz Cabri
1994 From the Wandering of the One- Armed Rider, S.S. 470430-920430, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
1994 Art and Reality, International Photography Center, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1995 The Unseen Borders, The first Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
The Unseen Borders, Art Gallery, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
1996 The Unseen Borders, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
From the Wandering of the One-Armed Rider, S.S 470430-920430, Camerawork, San Francisco
The Unseen Borders, Academy of Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
The Unseen Borders, Waikito Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand
1997 13, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Light Factory, North Carolina
The 2nd Tokyo International Photo Biennale, Japan
1999 The 48th Venice Biennale of International Art, Italy
2001 Saturday Morning, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Borders and Space-Dialogue, Sala Mendoza Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
2003 Bilder des Erinners und Verschwindens, IFA Galerie, Berlin
Names, Places, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004 Family, The Eli Lamberger Israeli Museum of Photography in the Tel-Hai Industrial Park
Living in the Shade, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Selected Group Exhibitions
1981 Acquisitions, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Political Identity, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1982 Here and Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1984 A Pear and an Apple, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv
1986 Contemporary Israeli Photography, Lieberman and Saul Gallery, New York
The First Israeli Photography Biennale, Mishkan Le'Omanut, Ein Harod
1987 Israel Photography, Konsthall, Lunds, Sweden
1988 Israeli Photography, Moment Galerie fur Photokunst, Hamburg
Skyline-Israeli Photographers Contemplate and Landscape, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1989 Photographs, La Galerie de Photographie de la Bibliotheque National, Paris
Lammin Valo Suomen Valokuvataitten Museo Helsinki
The Body, Haifa Museum, Haifa
1990 Stara Galeria, Warsawa
Collections, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1991 Israeli Artist, A Tribute to Joseph Zaritsky, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Presence of the Absent, the Empty Chair in Israeli Art,Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1992 Patterns of Jewish Life, Gropius-Bau, Berlin Postscripts "end" Representations in Contemporary Israeli Art, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993 Acquisitions 1991-1993, Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa
Focus on Industry, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
1994 Photographie Contemporaire, La Matiere, L'Omber, La fiction,Bibliotheque Nationale De France, Paris
Anxiety, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
1995 The Myth of Daidalos and Icarus, Yad Lebanim Museum, Petach Tikva
1996 Photographs D'Israel, Passage De Retz, Paris A Delicate Balance, Six Israeli Photographers, Light Factory Gallery, Charlotte, N. Carolina
1997 Landmark, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Photo Yona, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Exploring the Diversity, The 2nd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale, Tokyo
A Delicate Balance, Six Israeli Photographers, University Fine Art Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
1998 Facing the Reality, Israel Art, A traveling exhibition, Germany
Capturing Reality, 19 Israeli and Palestinian Photographers, Tennessee State Museum, U.S.A
Condition Report, Photography in Israel Today, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
To the East - Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
After Rabin: New Art from Israel, The Jewish Museum, New York
90 Years of Israeli Art: A Selection of the Joseph Hackmey-Israel Phoenix Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1999 Identity and Environment, Ludvig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
90 Years of Tel Aviv Yaffo, Contemporary Sights, Israeli and American artists, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The International Trienniale of Installation, Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa
2000 100 Years of Photography in Israel, Mane Katz Museum, Haifa
Exhibition of the winners of the Leon Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2001 Inside, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Exhibition of the winners of the award of the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, for Art and Design, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2002 Lebanon - 20 Years, Hakibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Believe the Day will Come, 300 Artists for Co-Existence, Umm El Fahem Gallery, Umm El Fahem
2003 Sailing, From the Zionist Ethos to a Personal Quest, Ben Ari Bat Yam Museum of Art, Bat Yam
2004 Current Visions, Chelsea, New York
Self Portrait with Camera, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 New Works – Raffi Lavie and Simcha Shirman, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Books
Saturday Morning by Simcha Shirman and Yosef
Sharon, 80 pp., 45 b/w pl., Published by Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv 2001
Prizes and Awards
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