Julie Saul Gallery

EDUCATION

2002 MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY

1999/98 The International Studio Program, New York

1999/98 The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York

1996 BFA (cum laude), School of Visual Arts Program, New York

1994/92 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Insatiable, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, New York

2005
Insatiable, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Insatiable, NOGA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

2004
Hunt-the-Slipper, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

2003
"Insatiable", Cutting Edge Project at ARCO'03, Madrid, Spain

2002
Dynamic Equilibrium, Site Santa Fe, Albuquerque, NM
Hunt-the-Slipper, Paula Boettcher Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Hunt-the-Slipper, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Keep in a cool and dry place, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

2001
Hunt-the-Slipper, Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2000
Thirty Times the Length of My Breath, Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mobius Strip, Baumgartner Gallery, New York
Innen Zeichnung, The LISTE ‘00 Young Art Fair Basel with the Paula Bottcher Gallery, Berlin
Approaching Saturation, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
Inside Drawing, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Innen Zeichnung, Paula Bottcher Gallery, Berlin

1999
Geometry of Echoes, The Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
Silverstein Gallery, New York

1998 The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 True North, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

2007 Dateline Israel: Recent Photography and Video, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

2006

Making and Finding, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Mount Kisco, NY

Glasskultur: What became of Transparence?, La Panera, Lerida, Spain

Glasskultur: What became of Transparence?, Koldo Mitxelena Museum, San Sebastian, Spain

Bread, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

White House, Marianne Courville Gallery, Hudson, NY

Body: Present and Absent, Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Bat-Yam, Israel

In relation to the Body, The Photography Gallery at the MIDRASHA Academy for the Arts, Beit Berl, Israel

2005

The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Traces and Omens, The Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands

Word Play, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2004

Staging Reality, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

Time Depot, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva, Israel

Brr…, Gallery W.52nd, New York, NY

In Focus: Themes in Photography, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY

Food Clothing Shelter, Onisaburo Gallery, Interfaith Center of New York, NY

Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual arts Gallery, New York, NY
Cleanliness, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY

Able was I ere I saw Elba - Palindrome, Heimspiel, Frankfurt, Germany
Word / Image, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT

2003

Staging Reality, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Staging Reality, The University of the Arts" Philadelphia, PA

Hot Summer In The City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY

Peripheries Become the Center, Prague Biennale 1 - 2003: Prague
Photo Album, Bradbury Gallery, Jonesboro, AR
Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, Berkeley Art Museum, CA

2002

SOFT, Artspace, New Haven

Multitude, Artists Space, New York, New York

Recent Acquisitions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Marshim-Identitasok, National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2001
Not Landscape: Fragments and Metaphors, SF CameraWork, San Francisco, CA
Depicting Absence/Implying Presence, ICA San Jose, CA
RE-LOCATION: on moving, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
New Work: Contemporary Figuration, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Size Matters, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY

2000
Material Abstraction, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
A Shot In the Head, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Fiction/Non-Fiction, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Architectural Constructs in Contemporary Photography, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
WHITE, Nikolai Fine Art, curator Irena Popiashvili, New York
Looking Ahead- Visions of Israel, ICA San Jose, curator Marie Shek, San Jose, CA
Painting Function:Making It Real, Spaces, curator Saul Ostrow, Cleavland, Ohio

1999
Open Studios, The International Studio Program, New York
XMAS, Kent Gallery, New York
The Wight Biennial UCLA, The New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mediterranean Encounters 3, The ‘99 Croatia Biennial, Israeli curator Mr. Meir Ahronson, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Thin Air, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Summer Salon VI, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
New in the Nineties II, The Katonah Museum, curators Rick Wester & Nina del Rio, Katonah, New York
Open Studios, The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York

1998
The 1st Annual Juried Photography Exhibit, Juror Sandy Skoglund, The Art Student League, Denver, CO
Under Construction, GEN ART New Visions, curated by Debra Singer, Manager of the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris & Anastasia Aukeman, Director of the Curt Marcus Gallery, New York

1997 Visual Arts Gallery, curated by Eve Sonneman, New York

1996 A Strategy Hinted at: New Conceptual Artists, curated by Anastasia Aukeman, Artists Space, New York

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2005

The Jehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts
MIFAL HAPAIS, Israel National Lottery Council for the Arts Grant

2002 Milton and Sally Avery Scholarship

2001 The Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant in the field of the Visual Arts

2000-99 The International Studio Program, New York

1999 Special Award for Originality & Innovation, The ‘99 Croatia Biennial, Dubrovnik, Croatia

1997 America Israel Cultural Foundation Fellowship, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1995 Award of Excellence, School of Visual Arts Mentor Program, New York

1994 Student Exchange Scholarship, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

1992 Special Presidential Grant for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

Govrin, Hili, "Body: Present and Absent", Cat. Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Bat-Yam, Israel, 2006

Aletti, Vince, "The Photograph In Question", The New Yorker, July 11&18, 2005

Kimmelman, Michael, "Art in Review: Orit Raff", The New York Times, May 27, 2005

Krispal, Joseph "Orit Raff: Insatiable at the Noga Gallery", Time Out Tel Aviv, May 19, 2005

Lori, Aviva "The connection between Bread, Salt and War; Orit Raff's exhibition at the Noga Art Gallery", Haaretz- Culture Supplement, May 6, 2005

Firstenberg, Lauri "The Moon Down to Earth: Orit Raff speaks with Lauri Firstenberg", ART PAPERS, May/June 2005 issue

Aiger, Yaniv Yehuda "Time Depot at the Petach-Tikva Museum of Art", Maariv, December 24, 2004
"Heimspiel und Ort-Flops", Plauf, July 2004

"Various Artists Im Dialog, Heimspiel", Journal Frankfurt, July 2004

Diaz, Eva, "Cleanliness at Sara Meltzer", Time Out, July 29, 2004

Schwendener, Martha, "Cleanliness", Artforum.com, July 2004

Gur-Arie, Drorit "Orit Raff", Cat. Time Depot at the Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva 2004

Firstenberg, Lauri, "Space and Subjectivity", Cat. Prague Biennale 1, 2003

Christensen, Les "Photo Album", Cat. Bradbury Gallery, AR, 2003

Held, Robin "Gene(sis)", CD-ROM Cat., Seattle, WA, 2002

"Indepth Art News: Orit Raff's Dynamic Equilibrium", absolutearts.com, NM, 2002
Kabat, Nora "Orit Raff: Dynamic Equilibrium", Brochure SITE Santa Fe satellite exhibition, November 2002
Burton, Johanna "Weasel Words: Orit Raff's Hunt-the-Slipper in Two Acts", Cat. The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, 2002
Ahronson, Meir "The attempt of a young woman parting with her youth to set anchor in her childhood before she becomes a mother herself", Cat. The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, 2002
Cotter, Holland "Art in Review: Multitude", The New York Times, October 11, 2002
Auricchio, Laura "Multitude at Artists Space", Time Out, September 26, 2002
"Multitude at Artists Space", The New York Sun, September 19, 2002
Firstenberg, Lauri "Space and Subjectivity", Cat. Artists Space - Multitude, New York 2002
Small, Irene "Memory of Form", Cat. Artists Space - Multitude, New York 2002
Helterman, Jolyon "Review of reviews: Art - Orit Raff at Julie Saul Gallery", The Week, June 14, 2002
Newhall, Edith "Soap Opera: Orit Raff at Julie Saul Gallery", New York Magazine, June 3, 2002
Johnson, Ken "Art Guide", The New York Times, May 31, 2002
Powell, Gus "Orit Raff at Julie Saul Gallery", The New Yorker, May 27, 2002
"Orit Raff at Julie Saul Gallery", The New York Sun, May 9, 2002
Tzur, Ouzi, "Orit Raff at Bineth Gallery", Ha'aretz, April 27, 2002
Blich, Bilu, "Thoughts on the works of Orit Raff", Cat. Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2002
Graves, Jen, "Evolving artistry: SOUNDLIFE", The News Tribune, April 19, 2002

Downey, Roger, "Bring Back Bill Nye: Visual Arts Review", Seattle Weekly, April 18, 2002

Hackett, Regina, "Messing with Mother Nature", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 6, 2002

Hall, Emily, "Haunted Houses - Art and Science, on Gene(sis) Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics", Visual Art, April 4, 2002
Matzkel, Yehudith, Cat. Budapest National Gallery, Spring 2002
McQuaid, Cate, "Monochrome monopoly: Blue, white take the stage", The Boston Globe, March 22, 2001
Gillett, Marnie, "Portfolio: Not Landscape: Fragments & Metaphors", CAMERAWORK, Fall/Winter 2001
J. Sozanski, Edward, "Orit Raff and Nir Hod: When Zen Meets Baroque at the JCC's Gershman Y", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 13, 2001

Westbrook, Lindsey "Contemporary Figuration", San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 11, 2001
Katz-Freiman, Tami, "Orit Raff and Nir Hod: When Zen Meets Baroque", Cat. Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2001
Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide", The New York Times, November 17, 2000
Ott, Susanna, "A Cave With A View: The Photographic works by Petrus Schaesberg and Orit Raff, Cat. Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY 2002
Crone, Rainer, "Foreword, Cat. Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY 2000

Millis, Christopher "Truth or Dare: Howard Yezerski’s Fiction/Non Fiction", The Boston Pheonix, July 21, 2000

Parcellin, Paul "Fiction/ Non Fiction at Howard Yezerski Gallery, RETRO- ROCKET.com, July 21,2000

Popiashvili, Irena "WHITE", NY ARTS, April, 2000

"Orit Raff at Julie Saul", The New Yorker, April 3, 2000

Frimmel, Sandra "BMW and Batman: Orit Raff at Paula Bottcher Gallery", TAZ, March23, 2000

Herbstkeuth, Peter "Background of chalk: Orit Raff at Paula Bottcher Gallery",TAGESSPIEGEL, March 18, 2000

Aletti, Vince"Voice Choices: Orit Raff, Inside Drawing", The Village Voice, March14, 2000

Gabara, Esther, "Orit Raff: Inside Drawing", Brochure for Saul and Boettcher Gallery shows, January 2000

Feliciano, Kristina "30 Under Thirty: Young photographers to watch", PDN, March 2000

Shek, Marie "Looking Ahead- Visions of Israel", Cat. ICA San Jose, San Jose, CA 2000

Burton, Johanna "Approaching Saturation ( On Orit Raff’s Domestic Landscapes ), Cat. Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, 2000

Ostrow, Saul "Painting Function: Making It Real", Cat. Spaces, Clevland, Ohio, 2000

Matzkel, Yehudit "Geometry of Echoes" Cat. The Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa Israel,1999

Berger, Kenny "1999 New Wight Gallery Biennial", Cat. The ‘99 Wight Biennial, 1999

Matzkel, Yehudit "Interview with Orit Raff", Photography & Digital Media Magazine, Summer 1999

Griffin, Tim"Art Reviews: Thin Air", Time Out New York, August 12, 1999

Johnson, Ken "Art in Review: Thin Air", The New York Times, August 6, 1999

Aletti, Vince"Voice Choices:Thin Air", The Village Voice, August 3, 1999

Aletti, Vince "Voice Choices: Summer Salon 6", The Village Voice, August 3, 1999

Gilerman, Dana "Doodling on the Desk", Ha’aretz, July 9, 1999

Ahronson, Meir "The Stain that Makes History", Cat. The ‘99 Croatia Biennial,1999

Smith, Roberta "Art in Review: Orit Raff", The New York Times , February 5, 1999

Aletti, Vince "Photo Short List: Orit Raff", The Village Voice, January 26, 1999

Nachshon, Ilan "Scent of a Woman", Yediot Achronot, October 13, 1999

Goldman, Robert, "Artist's Diary", ART NET Magazine, May 13, 1998

Ahronson, Meir "Her senses sharpened to a fine point and everywhere she found flaws and faults", Cat The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel, 1998

Ahronson, Meir "Who am I , for God’s sake?", BREEZA the Arts & LeisureMagazine of Globes Newspaper, Spring 1998

Goldman, Robert "Artist’s Diary", ARTNET Magazine, May 13, 1998

Aletti, Vince "Voice Choices: Orit Raff", The Village Voice, April 14, 1996

Scarlett, Nora "Check out some of the nation’s top student work and the judges who say so", CMYK Magazine, Fall 1996

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
The Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH