Nir Evron

Born 1974, Herzeliya, Israel
Lives and works in Berlin

Education:

2005 MFA – Fine Art Media Department, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2001 BFA – Photography and Media Department, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem
1999 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (Atelier Jean-Marc Bustamante)

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 Double Take (with Omer Krieger) Hase29 Kunstraum, Osnabruck, Germany 

2023  Rehearsing the Spectacle of Spectres (with Omer Krieger), The Jewish Museum Berlin

2020 Nir Evron: A Free Moment. Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada

2016 Masad. Tel Aviv Museum of Art (catalogue)

2015 Projected Claims. Institute of Contemporary Art, VCU, Richmond, VA, USA

         Threefold. The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Israel (catalogue)

2014 Endurance. LAXART, Los Angeles, USA

         Rehearsing the Spectacle of Spectres (with Omer Krieger). Kibuttz Be’eri Gallery, Israel

2013 Schemen – Narration und Videokunst, E-WERK Freiburg, Germany

2012 Thread (with Danny Yahav-Brown). Oranim College of Art Gallery, Israel

2011 Here-After. The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (catalogue)

2008 Generator. The Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv

2007 Serpentine. The Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv

2006 One Forest. Herzeliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzeliya, Israel

2003 Schwartz. The Photographers Gallery, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings:

2023 ‘Material Imagination: Center of Gravity; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2022 26th International Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
2021 Curtas Vila Do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal
         38th Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel
2020 ‘Sight Lines’ ArtPort, Tel Aviv
2019 ‘Fly Me to The Moon’ Kunsthaus Zürich/Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
2018 ‘Whose Work Is This?’ Minus1 Gallery, Tel Aviv
          64th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany                                   
2017 The Still Point of the Turing World, FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
         Bilder Fragen, H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst Im Glaspalast, Augsburg, Germany
2015 The Great Ephemeral. New Museum, NYC, USA
         The Century Mark. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
         Preaching to the Choir. Herzrelia Museum of Art, Israel
2014 19th Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks. Syndey, Australia
         Mobile Archive – Pro ARTE Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
         Journeys. The Israel Museum. Jerusalem, Israel
         Videographies Festival. Liege, Belgium.
2013 Host & Guest. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
         The Compromised Land. Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
         A Different Kind of Order. The ICP Triennial, New York, USA
         Yebisu International Festival For Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo, Japan
         Time After Time. Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
         Home Moves #2, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
         Panorama. Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
         25FPS, The International Experimental Film and Video Festival. Zagreb, Croaria
2012 La Bas. Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
         ICI. Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
         Image Anxiety. PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain
         Ministry of Culture’s Award Winners 2011, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
         Deviants. The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
         International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2011 The Second Strike. The 3rd Herzliya Biennale for Contemporary Art, Herzeliya, Israel
         Making Room. Contemporary Israeli Photography, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
         The Seam Line. Dana Gallery. Kibbutz Yad Mordechai Gallery, Israel.
         The Experimental Cinema and Video-Art Competition. Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel
2010 The 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany.
         Evet. Hamidrasha Gallery. Tel Aviv, Israel
         Overview. Israeli Video 2000-2010. Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
         Oz In The City. Performance Events. Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid. Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
         The 2nd Herzeliya Biennial, Israel
         Our Time. Small Box 28, Centro Hospilatar Psiquiatrico de Lisboa, Lisbon
         Zulu. Nahum Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv
         Hidden Secrets. The Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel
         Echoes Of Time And Place. The Jerusalem Cinematheque. Jerusalem, Israel
2008 Pulse Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, USA
         Europa Neurotisch. Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam
         Visits To (Some)Where. BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland
         Untamed Paradises. MARCO Vigo & CAAC Sevilla, Spain
         The Prize Winners 2007. Haifa Museum of Art
         Click-Clack. University of Haifa, The Art Gallery
2007 Passage. Video Art screening at the Artistsʼ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 The Third Generation. Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
         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
2003 Artik 5. Ramat Gan Museum of Art, Israel
2002 Florocent 5. Florocent Gallery, Tel Aviv
         Collapse. Bezalel Post-Graduate Gallery, Tel Aviv.

Awards and Scholarships:

2017 Israel’s Minister Of Culture award for senior video artist
         Artis Project Award
2015 Schusterman Visiting Artist Program. USA
2014 Miron Sima Award for Fine Art, Jerusalem.
2012 The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Tel Aviv
2011 Ostrovsky Family Fund Award, Jerusalem Film Festival
         Israel’s Minister of Culture’s ‘Art Encouragement’ Award
2008 The Samuel Givon Prize for Young Artist. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
         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 a Young Artist

Collections:

Centre National Des Arts Plastique, Paris
Deutsche Bank Collection. Frankfurt
La Caixa Foundation Art Collection, Barcelona
Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon
The Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem
The Tel Aviv Museum Photograpy Collection
The Tel Aviv Museum Video Collection
Zeʼev Holztman Collection – Tel Aviv
The Zabludowicz Collection, London
Haaretz Publishing Group Collection, Tel Aviv

Teaching:

2007-Present: Part-Time Professor. Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2015: Visiting Professor, Photography and Film, VCU School of the Arts, Richmond, VA, USA