Keren Anavy
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  • General
  • Based in New York, NY since August 2015 (b.Israel)
  • Member Artist at The EFA Studio Program, New York, NY
  • Education
  • 2005-2007
    M.F.A. Fine Art Department, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
  • 1999-2002
    Graduate Art Studies and Art Education, HaMidrasha, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel
  • 1996-1999
    B.A. Art History and Education Management, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Residencies & Awards
  • 2021-Present
    Member Artist of the EFA Studio Program, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
  • 2023
    Upcoming- EFA North Fork Residency, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
  • 2022-2024
    Guild Hall of East Hampton, SAF Artist in Residence: ECO vs EGO, East Hampton, New York
  • 2021
    Guild Hall of East Hampton, Guild House Artist in Residence, East Hampton, New York
  • 2021
    FoAir, Further on Artist in Residence, Amagansett, New York
  • 2021
    Marble House Project, Artist in Residence, Dorset, Vermont
  • 2020
    NYFA, New York Foundation for the Arts, IAP, Mentor, New York, NY
  • 2019
    Wassaic Project, Artist in Residence, Wassaic, New York
  • 2019
    MASS MoCA, Artist in Residence, The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
  • 2018
    AIRIE Program, Artist in Residence in Everglades, Everglades National Park, Florida
  • 2017-2018
    NYFA, New York Foundation for the Arts, IAP, Mentee, New York, NY
  • 2017
    Asylum Arts, New York, Grant
  • 2017
    UpCycle Journey, MakerSpace, supported by Staten Island Council of the Arts, Staten Island, New York
  • 2015-2016
    NARS Foundation, Artist in Residence, International Artists Residency Program, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2015-2016
    First International Bank of Israel, Grant for an International Artist in Residence Program
  • 2014-2015
    Artis, New York in collaboration with Asylum Arts, New York and Artport, Tel Aviv, ACDP Program
  • 2005-2007
    Ministry of Culture and Education, Israel, MFA Fellowship
  • Solo Exhibitions
  • 2022
    Cultural Exchange Room, Museo de la ciudad de Querétaro , Querétaro, Mexico
  • 2021
    I Wish I Had a River, The Underground Lobby Garden, ZAZ10TS Gallery, New York, New York
  • 2018
    Garden of Living Images, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
  • 2015
    House & Garden, The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
  • 2013
    Southern Rose, M. Smilanski Cultural Center Gallery, Rehovot, Israel (catalog)
  • 2013
    End of The Day, The Other Gallery, Talpiot College Gallery, Holon, Israel
  • 2013
    Point of View, Netgallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2008
    View from Black to Blue, Gallery on the Cliff, Netania, Israel
  • 2008
    Covered, Solo Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2007
    Photogenic, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalog)
  • 2006
    Marked Region, The Gallery at Kibbutz Beeri, Israel
  • 2005
    The Artichoke Ambush, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
  • Selected Two-Person Collaborations & Exhibitions
  • 2020
    Utopia, KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, New York (Online), in collaboration with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2020
    All About Nature, Times Square Billboards, ZAZ10TS Gallery, New York, New York, in collaboration with Tal Frank
  • 2020
    Artistic Messages on ZAZ Corner, Times Square Billboards, ZAZ10TS Gallery, New York, New York, in collaboration with Tal Frank
  • 2020
    The Nature of Things, Times Square Billboards, ZAZ10TS Gallery, New York, New York, in collaboration with Tal Frank
  • 2020
    Utopia, The Alvin Ailey City Group Theater, APAP, New York, New York, in collaboration with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2020
    Utopia, Material for the Arts, MFTA Art Gallery, Long Island City, New York, in collaboration with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2019
    Utopia, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, in collaboration with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2018
    Utopia, Danspace Project, St.Mark's Church, New York, New York, in collaboration with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2018
    Utopia, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, in collaboration with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2018
    Utopia, Queens Museum, Queens, New York, in collaboration with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2018
    Written in Water, SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018, New York, New York
  • 2018
    Utopia, Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm, Garrison, New York, in Collaboration with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2018
    Compositions for Stones of Gold, The Gallery of the Cultural Institute Mexico-Israel, Mexico City, Mexico, in collaboration with Tal Frank
  • 2018
    Utopia, Jazz at Lincoln Center-APAP, Movement Research, Dixon Place, Green Space and NARS Foundation, New York, New York, in collaboration with valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2017
    Between Beauty, Memory and Form, Feria Universitaria del Libro, Autonomous University of Hidalgo State, Pachuca, Mexico, in collaboration with Tal Frank
  • 2016
    Ex Territory, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York, site-specific installation, in collaboration with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
  • 2016
    Beauty and Other Forms, Mane'-Katz Museum, Haifa, Israel, site-specific installation in Repetitive Motifs in Ritual Objects and in Contemporary Art, in collaboration with Tal Frank (catalog)
  • 2013
    Crossover, Feinberg Projects Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, in collaboration with Tal Frank, host Quayola
  • 2012
    Hothouse, Dan Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, in collaboration with Tal Frank
  • selected group exhibitions
  • 2022
    Vector, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2022
    Curious Terrain, Exhibition The Barn, Frampton Co, Bridgehampton, New York
  • 2021
    (Body) 2 (Body), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York
  • 2021
    Moved Still Lives, Lauren Powell Art, L.A, California
  • 2021
    Autonomies, Studio of Her Own, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 2020
    Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki Projects, Woodstock, New York
  • 2020
    Artistic Messages on ZAZ Corner, Times Square Billboards, ZAZ10TS, New York, New York
  • 2020
    Tracing Lines, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, New York
  • 2019
    New World Water, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
  • 2019
    The Weight of the Temporary, NARS Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2019
    Fragile, AIRIE Nest Gallery, Everglades National Park, Florida
  • 2019
    Prom, Beit Tami, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv
  • 2018
    Join the Dots, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
  • 2018
    Evanescence, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, New York
  • 2018
    Luna, Neve Schechter Gallery, Contemporary Jewish Cultural and Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalog)
  • 2018
    Practice: In Progress, NARS Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2018
    Animal Farm, Gallery on the Cliff, Netania, Israel
  • 2017
    Struggle, Protest, Knight, Mask, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
  • 2017
    Passion. Connected, Gallery Korea, The Korean Cultural Center of New York, New York, New York
  • 2017
    Temporary Approximations, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2017
    Tishrei, The Contemporary Gallery at Nature Museum Beit Hankin, Israel
  • 2017
    Bearings, NARS Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2017
    Inaugural Art Show, MakerPark, Staten Island, New York
  • 2017
    Mediterranean Routes, Cantieri Culturali Alla Zisa-Spazio Zac-Zona Arti Contemporanee, Biennial of the Mediterranean Archipelago, Palermo, Italy
  • 2017
    On The Edge, Ertz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (catalog)
  • 2016
    Around Corners, NARS Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2016
    Paper Creatures, International Paper Art Exhibition, The Old Jaffa Museum, Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Israel (catalog)
  • 2016
    3459, Flux Factory Gallery, New York, collaboration with Relapse London
  • 2016
    The Art of Humanity, Pratt Institute The Rubelle and Norman Schfler Gallery, New York
  • 2015
    Map of The New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
  • 2015
    Subtle Interchange, NARS Foundation Gallery, New York
  • 2015
    Cutout Line: Drawing with scissors, The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein hod in collaboration with City Gallery Kfar Saba, Israel. (catalog)
  • 2015
    International Contemporary Paper Art, The Old Jaffa Museum, Jaffa- Tel Aviv
  • 2015
    Black/White, Neve Schechter Gallery, Contemporary Jewish Cultural and Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2014
    Until you get out of my voice, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod (catalog)
  • 2014
    Tzeva Glelee, The Northern Contemporary Art Fair, Tiberias
  • 2014
    Remains, City Lights Festival No.2, Art in the public Space, Modi'in (catalog)
  • 2014
    Painting Camp No.7, Ramla Station for Contemporary Art
  • 2014
    Landscapes- A Touch of Place, Tiroche Gallery- Contemporary Art Space, Herzliya
  • 2013
    Paper Art in Israel 2, Ertz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (catalog)
  • 2013
    Artricks, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (catalog)
  • 2012
    The Land of Nature Flourishes – Alive and Well, The Artists' Residence, Municipal Gallery, Herzliya
  • 2012
    Tools Experiment Festival no 9, Beit Tami, Tel Aviv
  • 2012
    City Lights Festival No.1, Art in the public space, Modi'in (catalog)
  • 2011
    Up and Down You're Turning Me, Gallery 121, Tel Aviv
  • 2011
    Facelook, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 2011
    Site Specific, The Open University of Israel, Raanana (catalog)
  • 2011
    Tools Experiment Festival no 8, 2011, Tel Aviv
  • 2011
    Site Specific, Gallery 10, Bet-Michal, Rehovot (catalog)
  • 2010
    The light of climate, 2nd international Biennale of painting and Sculptors "Mediterranean 2010", the Cultural Institution Gallery Kula, Split, Croatia (catalog)
  • 2010
    The First Decade, HaMidrasha, Tel Aviv
  • 2010
    Neighborliness, Outdoor Exhibition, Wadi al Nisnas , Haifa (catalog)
  • 2010
    Traces 4/ Caught in the Thicket - The 4nd Israeli Biennale for Drawing, Artists’ House, Jerusalem (catalog)
  • 2010
    Fresh Paint 3, Contemporary Art fair, Tel Aviv
  • 2009
    A Hard Day's Night, Contemporary by Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2009
    Visiting Card, Contemporary by Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2009
    Fresh Paint 2, Contemporary Art Fair, Tel Aviv
  • 2008
    To Wake the Tiger, Florentin 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalog)
  • 2008
    Contemporary Orientals ,5 Gallery Place 4 Art, Tel Aviv
  • 2007
    Exit, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2007
    Desert Generation, Artists’ House Jerusalem & Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2007
    Bringing Light: MFA Graduate Exhibition, Haifa University, Haifa (catalog)
  • 2006
    Partners, Beit Ha’gefen, Haifa
  • 2006
    Six, Gal-On Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2005
    Hot Summer ,Ein Hod Gallery, Ein Hod Artists’ Village
  • 2004
    Traces II - The 2nd Israeli Biennale for Drawing, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem (catalog)
  • 2003
    Marked Landscapes: Landscape-Place in Contemporary Israeli Art ,Ben Gurion University of the Negev, the Avraham Baron Art Gallery, The Senate Gallery, The George Shrut Visitors’ Center, Beer Sheva (catalog)
  • 2002
    Graduate Exhibition ,HaMidrasha School of Art, Kfar Saba (catalog)
  • Teaching & Related Experience
  • 2022-2024
    Guild Hall of East Hampton, SAF A.I.R Artist: ECO vs EGO, New York
  • 2019-Present
    Director of International Cultural Exchange Program, Radio28, an artists-run International Studio & Residency Program, Mexico City
  • 2016-2020
    Art writer, Art & Culture, New York & North America, Basis for Art & Culture Magazine (Hebrew)
  • 2007-2015
    Faculty, Department of Art, Society & Culture, Sapir Academic College, Israel
  • 2006-2015
    Head of the Arts & Photography Department, Maccabim Reut High School, Israel
  • Selected Publications
  • 2022
    Bloomsbury Publishing: Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts, London, UK
  • 2019
    The Nature of Things, Artist book, a/b Books publication, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2018
    Luna, catalog, Neve Schechter Gallery, Contemporary Jewish Cultural and Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2017
    Extreme Situation, catalog, Ertz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2016
    Repetitive Motifs in Ritual Objects and in Contemporary Art, catalog, Mane'-Katz Museum, Haifa, Israel
  • 2015
    Cutout Line: Drawing with scissors, catalog, The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein hod & Kfar Saba Municipal Gallery, Israel
  • 2014
    One- Contemporary Artists from Israel, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fabrica, Italy
  • 2014
    Until You Get out of My Voice, catalog, Ashdod Art Museum, Israel
  • 2013
    Paper Art in Israel 2, catalog, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2013
    Artricks, catalog, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 2013
    Southern Rose, solo exhibition catalog, Rehovot Municipal Gallery, Israel
  • 2013
    Museum without Walls, catalog, Beit Hagefen, Haifa, Israel
  • 2011
    Site specific, catalog, The Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel
  • 2010
    The light of climate, 2nd international Biennale of painting & Sculptors Mediterranean, The Cultural Institution Gallery Kula, Split, Croatia
  • 2010
    Traces IV/ Caught in the Thicket- The 4nd Israeli Biennale for Drawing, catalog, Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 2007
    Photogenic, solo exhibition catalog, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2007
    Photogenic, solo exhibition catalog, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2006
    Women, Peace and Security (Index), Women for Women publishing
  • 2004
    Traces II- The 2nd Israeli Biennale for Drawing, catalog The Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Selected Press
  • 2021
    Whitehot Magazine, review, July 13, 2021
  • 2021
    Art Spiel, Photo Story, July 22, 2021
  • 2020
    Art Spiel, interview, May 7, 2020
  • 2020
    Wassaic Project, interview, December 2019
  • 2019
    NYFA Current, interview, February 22, 2019
  • 2018
    Art Spiel, Fine Art Magazine, Collaborative Breathing Grounds, interview, August 26, 2018
  • 2018
    Erev-Rav: Art, culture & Society Journal, Garden of Paintings, Interview, January 19, 2019
  • 2017
    Anti-Heroin Chic Journal, James Diaz, Reality, Distress and Beauty, Interview, September 19, 2017
  • 2017
    Anti-Heroin Chic Journal, James Diaz, Reality, Distress and Beauty, Interview, September 19, 2017
  • 2017
    Trendbeheer Magazine (Dutch), Sasha Dess, Studio Visit, article, February 28, 2017
  • 2017
    Asylum Arts Magazine, New York, Between Beauty, Memory and Form, article, October 2017
  • 2015
    Erev Rav: Art, culture & Society Journal, The Garden, The Kefiya, The tiger and the diamond, review, February 18, 2015
  • 2014
    OH-SO-ARTY Magazine, Laura Schwartz-Waks, Crossover at Feinberg projects, 7/14
  • 2012
    Timeout Tel Aviv Magazine, recommendation, March 2012, p.104
  • 2011
    Timeout Tel Aviv Magazine, Space balls, Interview, vol. 462, September 2011, p.41-42
  • 2009
    Timeout Tel Aviv Magazine, Nadav Appel, Money buys love? Vol.362 10/09, p.82
  • 2008
    Timeout Tel Aviv Magazine, Interview, Vol. 292, June 2008, p.113
  • 2006
    Timeout Tel Aviv Magazine, Orit Hasson-Valdar, The channel feelings, Vol.198, p.88
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