Bio
[Born 1974] lives and works in Tel Aviv
goldnguy@gmail.com
Education
2005-2007 Bezalel Academy of art & Design, MFA studies, Israel
1997-2001 Visual communication art and design, Wizo Haifa Academy of art & design, Israel
Academic teaching
Since 2013 Head of the Visual Communication Department at Musrara School of Art, Jerusalem
2001-2007 Teaching at WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, Haifa, Israel
2002-2004 Teaching at Ascola-Meimad, College for Art and Design, Tel Aviv
2007 and on – Giving lectures, workshops, studio visits and guiding in HaMidrasha School of Arts, Beit Berl, Israel, Studio 6B, Tel Aviv, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Sapir School of Art, Israel, and more…
Solo Shows
2023
A Smart House In A Dumb Body , Hansen House, Jerusalem.
Curator: Vardit Gross
2022
Finger Food and Future Mistakes, ArtPort Tel Aviv.
Curator: Vardit Gross
2021
Second Hand, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
Curator:Karin Campbell
2018
Once a Beat, Second Hit, Petach Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel. Curator: Drorit Gur-Arie
2017
Friegedank (Free Thinker), Hertzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel. Curator: Louis Grachos
2015
Absolute Pitch, Školská 28 Gallery, Prague
Curator: Karina Kottová
Transcription of Blue, The American University Museum in Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC. Curator: Jack Rasmussen
2014
Time Signatures, Permanent sculpture, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York. Curator: Jennie Lamensdorf
2013
Yes/no Questions, Hertzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel. Curator: Doreet LeVitte Harten
2012
Bells & Whistles, Rooster Gallery, New York
Curator: Andre Escarameia
2010
Conserve, Art Gallery at The Memorial Centre, Kiryat Tivon, Israel. Curator: Taly Cohen Garbuz
2009
Loot, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Leah Abir
Loot II, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel.
Curator: Leah Abir
2006
Transitional Object, TheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Curator: Milana Gitzin-Adiram
2004
Sugar Cubes, TheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Curator: Milana Gitzin-Adiram
2002
Am Israel Hay, TheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Special Projects
2015
The Artist Festival #3, Zachęta, Warsaw, Poland
2014
Propagation, Perfomative Minutes, KW, Berlin
The World According to…#6, Book Art, THE OFFICE, Berlin
Partitura for Blue Noise, Sound Art performance, Pasáž,Tel Aviv
2013
Tracing the Fish Bladder, curatorial project, Radiator Gallery, NY
2012
Lust for Life, Performance, (collaboration with TimeOut Magazine), Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Hold Everything Dear, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Anat Danon Sivan
2023
In This Earth, In This Soil, Legacies of the Seven Species, Artport Tel Aviv, Curator: Savannah Gorton
2021
Mame Loshn, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin. Curator: Drorit Gur-Arie
Airspace, Ramat Hasharon Contemporary Art Municipal Gallery. Curator: Ravit Harari
2019
Action-Line: Traces, The 7th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Artists House, Jerusalem. Curator: Hadas Maor
Ismus, Ostrale 019, Dresden Biennale, Germany
First Person, Singular: Masculinities in Israeli Art, Ashdod Art Museum, Israel. Curators: Yuval Beaton, Roni Cohen-Binyamini
2017
Interference, Circle 1 Gallery, Berlin. Curator: Drorit Gur-Arie
Nothing But Longing, Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland. Curator: Sagit Mezamer
2016
From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Curators: Pierre-François Galpin and Lily Siegel
Error X, Ostrale O16, Dresden, Germany
Fundamental, 5th Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland. Curator: Tomasz Wendland
Wire(less) Connections, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Daniella Shalev
Imago Mundi: The Art of The Humanity, Pratt Institute
Monochrome, The Kupferman collection Museum, Israel. Curator: Dalia Levin
Space-Time, Minus 1 Gallery, Ha’Aretz Collection, Tel Aviv. Curator: Efrat Livny
2015
Eccentric Exercise II, Kulturni Centar Beograda, Belgrade, Serbia. Curator: Henriette Noermark
Imago Mundi: Map of The New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
Sound Fossil, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Karin Shabtai
2014
Recalculating Rout, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel / 4 Mediations Biennale, Poznan. Curator: Drorit Gur-Arie
Hide and Seek: Works on Paper, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curators: Nirit Sharon-Debel, Eva Sznajderman
2013
Pavilion 0, Palazzo Dona, 55th Venice Biennale. Curator: Tomasz Wendland
Traces V, Drawing Biennale, Anna Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Tal Yahas
Eccentric Exercise, Les Gens Heureux, Copenhagen. Curator: Henriette Noermark
The Winners, Minister of Culture Award winners Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center, Israel. Curators: Yuval Beaton, Roni Cohen-Binyamini
Lot’s Wife, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel. Curator: Naama Haikin
2012
It’s Juice Is Medicine For The Eyes, What It Is Gallery, Chicago
Art Any Way: Exploring the wheel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Sara Raiman Shor
Re:Visiting Rockefeller, Israeli Contemporary Art at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Sally Haftel Naveh
Let Them Eat Cake, HaChava (the Farm) Gallery, Holon, Israel
Render Visible, Present Company, NYC. Curator: Sonel Breslav
Entropy, The Artist’s Studios, Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem. Curator: Avi Lubin
Acoustic Landscapes, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Adaia Porath
The Tree of Knowledge, Municipal Gallery, Rehovot, Israel
2011
Electric Garden, Contemporary by Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Naomi Aviv
New on Paper: Recent Acquisitions in the Prints and Drawings Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curators: Ronit Sorek, Nirit Sharon-Debel, Eva Sznajderman
Disruption, Rothschild Blvd. Tel Aviv, Art in public space. Curator: Sally Haftel Naveh
The End of History, Galerie Speckstrasse & Kutscherhaus, Hamburg. Curator: Avi Lubim
2010
Manimal, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel. Curator: Dalia Levin
Expanded Drawing, Isabel Hurley Gallery, Malaga, Spain
Grandfather Paradox, On-Off, Hamburg. Curator:Avi Lubin
Grandfather Paradox, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator:Avi Lubin
Mutt, 39 Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Danny Yahav Brown
Re-Location, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009
Dreary Structures, Dreamy Structures, Monart Centre, Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel. Curators: Yuval Beaton, Roni Cohen-Binyamini
Home Page, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Neues Sehen, Dollinger Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008
Neues Sehen, Syker Vorwerk and Stadische Galerie Im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany. Curators: NorbertBauer, Susanne Hinrichs, Lias Mizrahi
The Winners, the Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel. Curator: Tami Katz-Friman
Demons, Moby – Bat-Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel. Curators: Naomi Aviv and Leah Abir
Detail, Chelouche gallery, Tel Aviv
Spaces of Desire and Elasticity Lines, The 11th Architecture Biennale, Venice (collaboration with Asif Berman and Oded Kutok)
2007
The Rear, Herzliya Biennale for Israeli Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel. Curator: Joshua Simon
BoysCraft, the Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel. Curator: Tami Katz-Friman
Video Marina, Moby – Bat-Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel. Curator: Milana Gitzin-Adiram
Through the Object, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel. Curator: Naama Haikin
XXS, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006
Collaboration on site, Ars 06, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki
Paperwork, TheHeder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Goods to Declare, Terminal 1, Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel
2005
Our Sea, International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam (collaboration with TheHeder Architects)
Katalogue, The Gallery in The Trafalgar Hotel, London
Transitions, Artists House, Tel Aviv
Drawing/sketch, P.e.k.a Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2004
The Magic of the Circus, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv
Rabbit out of the hat, Municipal Gallery, Rehovot, Israel
Industry, Shlush House Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2003
Artick 5, Ramat-Gan Museum of Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Prizes and Grants
2023 The Plumas Art Foundation
2020 The Pais Council for Culture and Art, Art Installation Development Grant
2019 Artis Residency Grant
2017 The Pais Council for Culture and Art, Exhibition Grant
2017 The Ostrovsky Family Grant for New Video Production
2016 Keshet Prize, Hertzliya Museum
2015 The Pais Council for Culture and Art, Art Installation Development Grant
2014 Artis Grant Recipient
2014 Outset Israel Grant Recipient
2014 Grant from the Israeli Culture Consulate, New York
2012 Minister of Culture Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, Jerusalem
2012 Artis Grant Recipient
2009 The Pais Council for Culture and Art, catalogue production grant
2008-2009 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize
2007 Young Artist Award, the Israeli Ministry of Culture
2007 scholarship on the name of Shneidinger foundation
2006-2007 Bezalel Academy, Supporting Artists Award
2002-2004, 2006-2007 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize
Residencies and Workshops
2019 Bemis, Omaha, Nebraska
2015 The Curfew Tower, Cushendall, North Ireland
2014-2015 ArtPort, Tel Aviv
2013 Art Omi, Upstate New York
2012 Residency Unlimited, New York
2011 Creative Capital, New York
2007 E.N.S.B.A, Paris
2006 COS – Collaboration on Site, Helsinki
Works In Selected Collections
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The Jewish Museum, NYC
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Petach Tikva museum of Art
Hertzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
American University Museum in Katzen Art Center, Washington DC
OMI Sculptures Park, NY
Rothfeld Collection, NYC
Ha’Aretz Collection, Tel Aviv
Gertler Collection, Tel Aviv/London
Maman Cohen Collection Tel Aviv/Paris
Ahouvi Collection, Tel Aviv
Zalzman Collection, Tel Aviv
Barzilai-Hollander Collection, Brussels
Berman Collection, LA
The Kneset (Israeli Parliament) Collection
Luciano Benetton Collection
And many other private collections
Selected Press and Publications
Once, A Beat, Second Hit, Solo show Catalogue, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, 2018
Ireland Versus Israel, text book from the exhibition Nothing But Longing, 2017
SpaceTime, Video Art and Installation From The Ha’aretz Collection, 2016
Drawings and Prints, From The Israel Museum Collection, 2015
Vision Magazine, China, The Sound Hadn’t Intended To Talk, P. 24-25
The Brooklyn Rail, an interview with Barbara London, March 2015
The World According To…#6, The Office Berlin, Artist book, 4.2014
Sounds Like Art To Me, Arte Fuse Magazine, by Oscar Laluyan, 13.10.2013
Yediot America, Yasmin Shemesh, Challenges in Radiator, 1.2.2013
Jaro 1, Rooster Gallery, NYC solo show catalogue – Bells & Whistles
Watermarks, Artist’s Book, 2011, Israel
LOOT, Artist’s Book, 2009, Israel
Catalogue, Neues Sehen – Junge Kunst Aus Israel, pp. 40-43
Catalogue, Demons, Moby – Bat-Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, p. 18, 29, pp. 41-42, 86-89
Catalogue, BoysCraft, the Haifa Museum of Art, pp. 109-112
Catalogue, Through the Object, The Open Museum of Photography, pp. 20-21, 79-83
Domus Magazine, Israel addition, 2008, front and back covers
Picnic Magazine, 2007, p.24
De Fish Magazine #5, Belgium, 2006
Block Magazine #2, Israel, 2006, pp. 42-43
Katalogue, Art Book, Volume One, London, 2005, pp. 5-9
Rojo Magazine, Vint Issue, Barcelona, 2005 pp. 120-124
Rojo Magazine, Elen Issue, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 61-66
Rojo Magazine, Guko Issue, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 42-44
Belio Magazine, Human/Sex Issue, Madrid, p.46, p.55
Arte Fuse, Oscar A. Laluyan, 5.6.2012
No.3 Magazine, Oscar A. Laluyan, July 2012
Ha’aretz, Galleria, Eli Armon Azulai, 8.4.2011
Achbar Ha’ir, Hila Shkolnik-Brener, 2.8.2009
Ha’aretz, Uzi Zur, 17.9.2009
Ma’ariv, Culture, 23.6.2009
Ha’aretz, Galleria, Smadar Shefi, 29.5.2006
Walla, Culture, Rotem Rosenthal, 24.5.2006