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OFRI CNAANI
Born in Israel, 1975. Lives and works in New York.
Education
2002-2004 MFA, Hunter College Art School, New York
1997-2000 BFA, Beit-Berel College – School of Art, Israel
Magna Cum Laude.
Solo Exhibitions
2012
The Sota Project, Fisher Museum of art at USC, Los Angeles (forthcoming)
The Sota Project, Macro Museum, Rome, Italy(forthcoming)
Special Effects, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NYC.
2011
Public Notice: An Exhausted Film, BMW GUGGENHEIM LAB, NYC
performance by Ofri Cnaani, Cheryl Kaplan and Kathryn Alexander
The Sota Project, Rothschild 96, Tel Aviv
The Sota Project, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
Three Acts of Betrayal, lecture- performance by Ofri Cnaani and Hadas Cohen, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NYC.
2010
The Vanishing Woman, Live-cinema performance at PS1/ MoMA(as part as Greater New York performance program), NYC
Manja, The Bialik House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2009
Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums (10 sites in 10 different museums), Italy.
Ofri Cnaani, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy.
Tale of Ends, Le Poisson Rouge, New York.
2007
Two Dimensional Days, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York. (catalog).
Decreation, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2006
Death Bed, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (Curator: Ilana Tennbaum) (catalog).
2005
The Blind Scenario, Pack Gallery, Milan (curator: Claudia Zanfi) (catalog).
The colonel and I, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York.
2004
WE, MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York.
The Sun Still Shines, Pack Galleria, Milan.
2003
The Black & White Theater, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Art Focus 4, Jerusalem (curators: Yigal Zalmona and Susan Landau).
Patrol, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya (curator: Dalia Levin)
2002
Ofri Cnaani – Dror Daum, Alon Segev gallery, Tel Aviv.
2000
Waiting Room, Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Group Exhibition
2012
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society, Princeton University and Rutgers University (curators: Judy Brodsky and Ferris Olin) (forthcoming)
Marie –Laure Fleisch Gallery, Rome, Italy (forthcoming)
Video works from Hamidrasha Art School, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (curators: Giorgia Calo, Doron Rabina, and Ben Hagari)
Accelerating Toward Apocalypse, Works from Doron Sabag Art collection, ORS Ltd., Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv
2010
Handhald Histories, Queens Museum of Art, NYC
Corsiedpondense, Bezalel Academy Art Gallery, Jerusalem
Longitude &Latitude, Tivon Art Gallery, Israel (curator: Taly Cohen-Garbuz)
Finzioni-videoracconti contemporanei, Museo internazionale delle marionette
Antonio Pasqualinodi (curator: Paola Nicita)
Looking In, Looking Out,, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Curator: Hagit Alon).
Rupture and Repair, The Adi Foundation and The Israel Museum, Artists’ House, Jerusalem. (curator: Emily Bileski)
Metamorphoses: Error, Ofri Cnaani, Tamar Halpern and Vlatka Horvat, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Ecstasy, The former convent of St. Cecilia’s P 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY
2009
FORUM DES IMAGES, Nuit Blanche in Paris, Paris (curator: Marie Shek)
The Situation, Moscow Biennial (special project), (curator: Elizabeth M. Grady)
Wild Exaggeration, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (curator: Tami Katz-Frieman)
Fresh Fruits, Ten Haaf Project, Amsterdam.
2008
Video Zone, The 4th International Video-Art Biennial in Israel.
A Re-reading of the future, ITCA 2008 – International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery in Prague (curator: Danna Taggar)
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, Israel museum, Jerusalem (curator: Amitai Mendelson, Efrat Natan).
LOOP, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
Mexico NewYork Paris, Estación Indianilla Centro cultural, Mexico City.
2007
Playing with Solitude, Ursula Blickle Videolounge at the Kunsthalle Wein, Viena (Curator: Tal Yahas).
Port-City, Arnolfini foundation Museum, Bristol, UK. (Curator: Tom Trevor)
Storytellers, Castello Dell’Acciaiolo, Scandicci, Italy. (Curator: Pietro Gaglianò)
The Space Between, Petach Tikva Museum, Israel (Curator: Drorit Gur Arie)
Bat Yam Museum, Israel (Curator: Neta Gal-Atzmon)
Art and Urban Practices- New City-Territories. Venice, Italy
2006
Disengagement, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Floating Symmetry, Going Public ’06- Atlante Mediterraneo, Nicosia, Cyprus.
I Cant quite Place It, smack Mellon, Brooklyn , NYC (Curator: Elizabeth M. Grady)
LOOP, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2005
AIM 25, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
ARCO 05, Madrid, Spain
2004
Going Public 04: maps, confines, new geographies, aMAZE cultural lab, Modena, Italy (curator: Claudia Zanfi)
Visionaries, Makor Art Center, New York.
Video:1Min:1800 Frames, City without Walls, Newark, NJ.
2003
Artik 5, American – Israeli “Sharet” Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, Ramat-Gan Museum, Ramat-Gan.
2002
The Kiss, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2001
Action Express, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Graduate Exhibition, Beit Berel-College-School of Art – “Midrasha”
Artik 3, American – Israeli “Sharett” Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, University Gallery, Tel-Aviv
VideoTrip, Video Art Nightly Project, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Awards and fellowship
2007
HBI Research Award, Hadassah- Brandies institute, MA.
Six Point Fellowship, NYC
2005
AIM – Artist In the Marketplace fellowship program at the Bronx museum
2003-2004
American Israeli Cultural Foundation Overseas graduate scholarship.
2000- 2001
American Israeli Cultural Foundation
Beit Berel Certificates of Honor for artistic excellence
1999
The Germany Foundation Certificate of Honor for academic excellence.
1998
Beit Berel Certificate of Honor for academic achievements.
