Orit Ishay
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Orit Ishay | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | Ha'Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College; Musrara School of Photography, Media and New Music; The David Yellin Academic College |
| Known for | Photography, Video Art |
| Movement | Contemporary Israeli Art |
Orit Ishay (Hebrew: אורית ישי; born 1961) is an Israeli artist working in photography, video and installation. She is also a lecturer in photography.[1] Ishay's art examines the interrelation between man and place and possible systems of representation, while addressing questions pertaining to social and mental issues through temporal and spatial motifs. Her work is usually accompanied by theoretical research.
Biography
Ishay was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv. During 1983–1986, she studied art at Ha'Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College. After her graduation, she studied and worked in the field of interior design. In 2000–2003, she was a freelance photographer for prominent Israeli magazines (including Royim Olam, Nisha and Masa Acher-Voyage). In 2003, Ishay resumed her art studies and attended the Photography Department of Musrara School of Photography[2], Media and New Music in Jerusalem, from which she graduated with honors in 2006. She then continued to specialize in the B.Ed. in Art program at The David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem, which she completed with honors in 2007.
During her second year of photography studies in Jerusalem, Ishay was invited to participate in museal exhibitions in Kraków, Poland. and in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has since exhibited in Israel and around the world. After her graduation from the Musrara School, she won the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award (2007–08, 2006–07). Although Ishay did not meet the award's age criteria, the committee justified its decision by referring to the quality and originality of the works.
In 2010–2012, Ishay studied in the postgraduate Fine Art Program at Ha'Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, which she completed with honors. While attending the program she conducted a project in collaboration with essayist Oded Wolkstein, which culminated in the book The House. The book, published by Ha'Kibbutz HaMeuchad – Sifriat Poalim in 2014, features original artworks by sixteen contemporary artists who responded to the poem "The House" by the poet Avoth Yeshurun. During her studies in the program, Ishay was awarded creative scholarships for projects at the Cabri Print [3] Workshop (2011) and the [[Jerusalem Print Workshop][4]] (2012).
Towards the end of 2014, Ishay will engage in a project at the [[Museumsquartier[5]][6] Wien, in the framework of an invitation to an extended residency program at quartier21 supported by Eikon, an international photography and media art magazine, following her 2010 exhibition at the FotoGalerie Wien in Vienna. [7] [8]
Over the years, Ishay has presented several solo exhibitions as well as had her works featured in group exhibitions at prominent art venues in Israel and abroad; among them are The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, [[National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania)|Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Romania][9] [10]] and The Derby Museum of Art in the UK. In addition to her activity in the confines of the traditional white cube, Ishay also operates in the public space. In 2009, in protest against the selection of the participating artists, she performed a guerrilla action in which she placed a 3 meter high Styrofoam sculpture in the shape of the Oscars statue in the plaza of the Tel Aviv Art Biennial. In 2012, she led a tour that was open to the general public in the "Haifa Walks #2" project, held in the framework of the show Haifa-Jerusalem-Tel Aviv at the Haifa Museum of Art.'One Kilometer' with Orit Ishay in 'Haifa Walks #2' project
Ishay works are present in a number of public, private and institutional collections such as The Israel Museum Jerusalem; Ashdod Museum of Art; Herziliya Museum [11] CCA Tel Aviv Video Archive; Bank Ha'poalim; America-Israel Cultural Foundation and in further collections both in Israel and abroad.
Awards
- 2023: Art Lane Found grant for a solo exhibition
- 2022: Artis Contemporary Art Association, Grant for a solo exhibition, NYC and Tel Aviv [12]
- 2021: Ministry of Culture and Sport, Creativity Encouragement Prize
- 2021: Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Division of Culture and Arts with the Yehoshua Rabinovitch Foundation for the Arts
- 2021: Jerusalem municipality, Department of Art and Culture
- 2020: LowRes Jerusalem International AIR studio program, Art Cube Artists’ Studios
- 2020: The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
- 2018: Gottesman Etching Center, AIR and scholarship to create a photo etching project, Kibbutz Cabri
- 2018: AFCN -National Cultural Fund Administration Romania, scholarship for a solo exhibition, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest
- 2018: Arac-Plantelor 58, AIR program, Bucharest
- 2017: Foreign Ministry support for a solo exhibition in Prague
- 2016: Eikon International award, 5X5 photo tracks, a book about 25 contemporary photographers
- 2016: Arad-Art-Architecture, AIR program
- 2016: ACAC – Arad Contemporary Art Center – Scholarship for producing video artwork [13]
- 2016: Scholarship for producing video artwork, Jerusalem municipality, Department of Art and Culture
- 2015: Petach Tikva Museum - video production grant
- 2015: Arad-Art-architecture, AIR, Arad
- 2015: LowRes Jerusalem International AIR studio Program, Art Cube Artists’ Studios
- 2014: MuseumsQuartier Wien, quartier21 Artist-in-Residence Studio Program, Vienna[14]
- 2012: Jerusalem Print Workshop, a scholarship for a yearly new project & exhibition
- 2011: The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri [15]
- 2009: The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Tel Aviv
- 2007: America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Keren Sharett
- 2006: America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Keren Sharett
Collections
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art [16]
- MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
- MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow
- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Ashdod Museum of Art
- The Sip, Shpilman Photography Institute,
- Bank Ha'poalim Art Collection
- Beit Avi Chai, Jerusalem
- Recanati Art Collection, Tel Aviv
- America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv
- CCA Tel Aviv Video Archive
- The Israeli Center for Digital Art Holon, Video Archive
- BAAD Gallery - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem
- Bay Club Art Hotel Haifa, an Atlas Boutique Hotel
- Private Collections in Israel and abroad
Solo exhibitions
- 2014: Terribly Pretty, Awfully Beautiful. The Kibbutz Gallery Tel Aviv, IL[17]
- 2023: Our Home is Cut Out Off Soft Wallpaper, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, RO
- 2023: Oasis Shalvata, Be’eri Gallery, Kibbutz Be’eri, IL
- 2021: A Fingernail In the Eye of the Sun, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv,
- 2021: Tarnished Gold, Art Cube Artists' Studios Jerusalem, IL
- 2019: Golden Ring, Art Cube Artists’ Studios Jerusalem, IL
- 2019: Someone Has Been Sleeping In My Bed, Philomena+, Vienna, AU
- 2018: There Is a Lion Across The River, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, RO
- 2018: Land Stand!, Dana Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, IL
- 2017: Deer Country, Prague City Gallery House of Photography, CZ
- 2015: Half Moon Half Sun, Art Cube Artists' Studios Gallery Jerusalem, IL
- 2015: Public Domain, Shelters, Senate Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IL
- 2014: Way 2 Way, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
- 2013: Fire Zone, Tichonet Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
- 2012: 1917 (as a part of Attributes exhibition) MoBY – Museum of Contemporary Art Bat Yam, IL
- 2011: Lucky Numbers, The Kaye Gallery for the Arts, Kaye College, Be'er Sheva
- 2010: Lucky Numbers, The Gallery in Kibbutz Bee'ri
- 2010: Public Domain – Seven Boom, Solution and Evolution, Tina B, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech
- 2009: Public Domain, TheHeder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2008: Fire Zone, The Gallery in Kibbutz Nachshon, IL
- 2008: Blocked, The Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem
- 2007: Regarding Pilgrims, The Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg
- 2006: Regarding Pilgrims, Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków
Selected group exhibitions
- 2014: Rising Star, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL[18]
- 2014: Re-Imagining Jerusalem – A Dialogue with Beit Avi Chai Photography Collection, Jerusalem
- 2014: Secular Judaism, Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
- 2014: Disturbed Landscape, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2014: Living Space, The Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv
- 2013: Good Girls – Memory, Desire, Power, MNAC, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
- 2013: Becoming, Ha'midrasha Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2013: No Ego, MusraraMix 13 Festival, Jerusalem
- 2013: Labor in a Single Shot – Another Day, EPOS International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- 2012: Patterns of Behavior, Jerusalem Print Workshop (JPW), Jerusalem
- 2012: Daily Reports, MNAC, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania[19]
- 2012: Teen Spirit, Grid 2012, International Photography Biennial, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2011: New in Photography, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Jerusalem
- 2011: Right Here, Right Now; Derby Museum and Art Gallery, UK
- 2011: Where is There, The Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery
- 2010: Safe Haven, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2010: Identity III: Positioning, WUK – FotogalerieWien, Vienna[20]
- 2010: Small is Beautiful & I already Said So, Vernon Gallery, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech
- 2009: Fotografie aus Israel, Kultur Bahnhof Eller Düsseldorf
- 2009: Compact Duo, 10 Gallery, Beit Michal, Rehovot
- 2008: Holga, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco
- 2007: Jerusalem of One's Eye, The Social Gallery, Jerusalem
- 2006: Bread, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 2005: Attitude 02, Magaza Museum, Macedonia
- 2004: Disinformation My Love, The Israel Festival in Jerusalem
Installations and activities in the public realm
- 2014: Stations #1, Outdoors video screening at the plaza of The Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre, Tel Aviv
- 2013: Videocracy, open screening in the CCA Tel Aviv public square, Israel
- 2012: One Kilometer, #2 Haifa Walks, as a part of the exhibition HAIFA-JERUSALEM-TEL AVIV, Haifa Museum of Art
- 2012: Green Kuku, a site specific installation, Contemporary Art Festival, #9 Testing Tools - In the Making, Tel Aviv
- 2009: Oscar, protest installation, setting a 3 meters-high sculpture, Tel Aviv #1 International Art Biennial public square
Instruction and special projects
- 2013: Conductor of the project The Home – a book that interlaces Avot Yeshurun’s poems with selected contemporary artworks. Published by ‘Ha'kibbutz Hameuchad - Sifriat Poalim ’, Tel Aviv
- 2011–12: Lecturer and curator in a two-year photography project, joint to students from Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington D.C. USA and Musrara School of art, Jerusalem, Israel
- 2011–12: Lecturer in “Place of Art Study - The Program for Active Artists”, Museum for Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
- 2009–10: Guest Lecturer, Sapir Academic College, The School for Art, Society and Culture
- 2009–10: Guest Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of the Arts – The Yolanda & David Katz
- 2007–10: Lecturer in special needs education project, The Naggar School of Photography in Musrara, Jerusalem
References
- ^ {{Cite web |url=https://museum.imj.org.il/artcenter/newsite/en/?artist=Ishay%2C+Orit}
- ^ https://musrara.co.il/en/
- ^ http://www.cabriprints.com/front/ShowArtistBiography.aspx?ItemId=2277&Lang=EN
- ^ https://jerusalemprintworkshop.org/en/artists/%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99-%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA/
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20141012235123/http://www.quartier21.at/en/artists-in-residence/artists/artistinfo/?artist=1167&cHash=ae6814eaef4d55fa67868c17fbfc619a
- ^ https://www.mqw.at/institutionen/kulturmieterinnen/artists-in-residence/2014/orit-ishay
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20141006091746/http://www.wuk.at/event/id/14901
- ^ http://artandtheory.net/detail/identity-3-fotogalerie-wien-bilderheft/
- ^ https://www.mnac.ro/event/364/Daily%20Reports
- ^ https://www.mnac.ro/event/236/Fete%20Cumin%C5%A3i.%20Memorie,%20Dorin%C5%A3%C4%83,%20Putere
- ^ https://www.herzliyamuseum.co.il/en/exhibition/orit-ishay/
- ^ https://artis.art/artists/orit_ishay
- ^ https://www.arac.ro/58-plantelor-residency/artistic-residency-with-orit-ishay/
- ^ Ishay's Artist-in-Residence page Archived 2014-10-12 at the Wayback Machine at quartier21, MuseumsQuartier Wien 2014
- ^ http://www.cabriprints.com/front/ShowArtistBiography.aspx?ItemId=2277&Lang=E
- ^ https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/collection/#gallery/latest_purchases/3964
- ^ 'Terribly Pretty' 2014 exhibition review by Dr. Smadar Sheefi published in her personal art blog – 'The Window'
- ^ Curatorial text about the video work 'ManaManot' Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine exhibited in 'Rising Star', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014
- ^ About Ishay's works exhibited in 'Daily Reports' exhibition, NMAC Bucharest, 2012 - a review in Artis Agenda section Archived 2014-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ About 'Public Domain' series in 'Identity III: Bilderheft' exhibition, Fotogalerie Wien 2010 Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine exhibition’s Contextual Essay in Art and Theory
External links
- / Official Website
- Artist Page[permanent dead link] at America-Israel Foundation
- Works in BAAD Reservoir at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
- Artist Page at The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri's Website
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