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Shai Kremer statement | biography | links + press

born Israel, 1974

EDUCATION
2003-2005 School of Visual Arts, New York. M.F.A - Photography and Related Media
1998-2002 Camera Obscura School of Arts, Tel Aviv Israel. B.A. - Photography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Fallen Empires - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Infected Landscape - Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Fallen Empires - James Hyman Gallery, London Fallen Empires - Julie M. Gallery, Toronto Fallen Empires - Julie Saul Gallery, New York Fallen Empires - Robert Koch, San Francisco, CA

2010
Infected Landscape, FMoPa, Tampa, FL
Infected Landscape and Fallen Empires, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris

2009
Infected Landscape, Julie M. Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Infected Landscape Israel, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

2008
Broken Promised Land, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, CA
Broken Promises Land, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Infected Landscape Israel, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Infected Landscape Israel, Oslo, Norway

2006 Broken Promised Land - Carpentras Synagogue Gallery, Arles - France
2005 Infected Landscape - Eastside Gallery, SVA, New York, NY
2004 Architecture of Terror -The Israeli Architects Association Main Hall, Israel
2004 Infected Landscape - Givat Haviva Art Center, Gallery for Peace, Israel

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Walker Art Center, MN

2010
Natural Conflict: Video and Photography from Israel, Nevada Museum of Art, NV
BMW Prize Paris Photo 2010, Carousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Looking In, Looking Out: The Window in Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London, UK
Open Wide, Julie M. Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2009
Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection, SF MoMA, San Francisco, CA
Walls, Pont de la Machine, Geneva, Switzerland Structures, Dwellings and Buildings, Ashdod Art Museum, Israel
Point of View, Manshia, Tel Aviv, Israel Stigmata, Red Cross Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
Dystopia, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Constellation, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Rome
Windows and Mirrors, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2008-09
Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2008
HeartQuake, The Museum on the Seam. Jerusalem, Israel
Israeli Panoramas, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Herzlya, Israel
Israel at 60, The Vittoriano Museum. Rome, Italy

2007
Engagement-Contemporary Photography Israel Museum Jerusalem, Israel
Loaded Landscape - Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. USA
Guangzhou Photo Biennale - Selected by Alain Sayag, Canton, China
Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles - Photo Folio Review. Arles, France
Festival of the Photograph - Charlottesville, VA, USA


2006
Local Testimony in conjunction with World Press Photo,Tel- Aviv Israel
Emerging photographers 2005 – Stockholm, Sweden
Emerging photographers 2005 – Madrid Spain –photo Espana
Infected Landscape - Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Emerging photographers 2005 – Milan, Italy
Disengagement -Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Emerging photographers 2005 – Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo. Japan

2005
Emerging photographers 2005 - Art & Commerce, New York
Focused - Photographic Centre Northwest, Seattle, WA
See what I mean - Visual Arts Gallery. New York

2004
Artic 6 - America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv university Gallery. Israel

2002 Graduate exhibition - Camera Obscura. Israel

2001
Jewish Identity - Jerusalem Cinematheque. Israel
Jewish Identity - Camera Obscura Gallery. Israel

2000 Between Art and Fashion, Ramat Gan - Museum of Modern Art. Israel

PUBLICATIONS

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera. Exhibition catalog. London, UK: Tate Modern, 2010
Shortlisted finalists of the Prix Pictet published in Earth. Germany: teNeues, 2009.
As Is. Exhibition catalog. Rome, Italy: Vittoriano Art Museum, 2008
HeartQuake. Israel: Museum on the Seam, 2008
Sur, Yossi , Haaretz, (Israel), January 2011
Briand, Luc , Liberation, (France), August 13, 2010
Guillot, Claire, Le Monde (France), April 11, 2010
Telerama, (France), April 7, 2010 “Coups de Coeurs Paris Photo,” Beaux Arts Magazine (France), November 2009.
Courier International (France), March 2009
Special Issue on Arles, Images Magazine (France), July 2008
Special Issue on Paris Photo, Images Magazine (France), November 2008
Yochelson, Bonnie, “The City,” The New York Times (New York, NY) December 7, 2008
Dr. Rosen, Jochai, “Infected Landscape,” Afterimage Magazine (New York, NY), 2008 Gillerman, Dana, Arts Supplement: Gallery” Haaretz (Israel), 2008.
Smadar Sheffi, Haaretz (Israel), February 21, 2008
Aletti, Vince, The New Yorker, May 12, 2008
ARTIS Catalog, Israeli Contemporary Art Week in New York, Israeli Artists, 2008
Guangzhou Photo Biennale. Catalog. Canton, China, 2007
NO Magazine 8-page article about Infected Landscape, Oslo, Norway, 2007
Afterimage Magazine cover and article, New York, 2007
NY Jewish Museum Spring Catalog, New York, 2007
New York Time Magazine – Bernard Henri Levy : My Views of Israel , August 6, 2006
Peek - Art & Commerce Publications, New York , October 2005
Artic 6 Catalog, Tel Aviv, Israel 2004: Ellul Art Auction Catalog Tel Aviv, Israel , 2004

MONOGRAPH
Fallen Empires, Shai Kremer, essays by Anne Tucker, Dr. Amiran Oren, Dr. Ariella Azzoulay, Taly Sasoon, Meron Benvenisti, Dewi Lewis Publishing & Radius Books, U.S. & U.K., hardcover, 50 plates, February 2011
Infected Landscape, Shai Kremer, essay by Sylvia Wolf and Pr. Zuckermann), Dewi Lewis Publishing, Manchester UK, hardcover, 66 plates, September 2008

AWARDS
2010 BMW Paris Photo Prize - one of the 20 short-listed artists, exhibited at the Carousel du Louvre
2009 Henri Cartier Bresson Award - Runner up
2009 Lucie International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention
2008 Rencontres Photographiques D’Arles, PhotoFolio Review Prize
2008 NYFA (New York Foundation of the Arts) Artist’s Fellowship in Photography
2007 Aperture Portfolio Prize 2007, Runner-up
2007 Edutmekomit- Local testimony: First Place in Landscape Photography
2007 Recontres Photographiques D'Arles, PhotoFolio Review Prize
2007 Santa Fe Center for Photography, nominated for the 2007 Santa Fe Prize
2007 HSBC Fondation pour la Photographie, amongst the 2007 Prize fifteen nominates
2007 Israel Pais Grant for the Art and Culture (Israel)
2005 America - Israel Cultural Foundation
2004 America - Israel Cultural Foundation, Scholarship for MFA Studies
2003 Camera Obscura Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts
2002: America - Israel Cultural Foundation, Scholarship for BA Accomplishment

COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, TX
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Herzliya, Israel Museum on the Seam. Jerusalem, Israel
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Chapman Museum, Orange, CA

DLA Piper, New York
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Israel Museum Jerusalem, Israel
Koskoff & Koskoff & Bieder, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Rose Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
San Francisco Museum of ModernArt, San Francisco, CA
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel






Fallen Empires [view images]


New Horizons [view images]


Infected Landscape: Panoramas [view images]



Infected Landscape [view images]