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Education |
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2001-2003 |
MFA, Hunter College Art School, New York | |
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1997-2000 |
BFA, Beit-Berel College - School of Art - "Midrasha",
Israel Magna Cum Laude. |
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Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2007 | Two Dimensional Days, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY. | |
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| Decreation, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. | ||
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| 2006 | Death Bed, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (Curator: Ilana Tennbaum) (catalog) | |
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| Floating Symmetry, special project with Jenny Vogel in Going Public '06- Atlante Mediterraneo, Nicosia, Cyprus | ||
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| 2005 | The Blind Scenario, Pack Gallery, Milan | |
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| The Colonel and I, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York | ||
| 2004 | WE, MFA Thesis show, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York | |
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| The Sun is Still Shine, Pack Galleria, Milan | ||
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2003 |
The Black and White Theater, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv |
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| Art Focus 4, Jerusalem (curators: Yigal Zalmona and Susan Landau) | ||
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| Patrol, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya (curator, Dalia Levin) | ||
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2002 |
Ofri Cnaani – Dror Daum, Alon Segev gallery, Tel Aviv. | |
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2000 |
Waiting Room, Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv. | |
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Group Exhibitions |
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| 2007 | Port-City, Arnolfini Foundation Museum, Bristol | |
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| Story Tellers, Castello Dell’Acciaiolo, Scansicci | ||
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| The Space Between, Petach Tikva Museum | ||
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| Sweet 16, Bat Yam Museum | ||
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| New City- Territories, Venice | ||
| 2006 | Disengagement, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel | |
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| Floating Symmetry, Nicosia | ||
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| I Cant quite Place It, smack Mellon, Brooklyn , NYC (Curator: Elizabeth M. Grady) | ||
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| LOOP, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain | ||
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2005 |
AIM 26, Bronx Museum, NYC (Forthcoming) | |
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| ARCO 05, Madrid | ||
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| 2004 | Going Public 04: Maps, Confines, New Geographies, aMAZE cultural lab, Modena, Italy (Curator: Claudia Zanfi) | |
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| Visionaries, Makor art center, New York | ||
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| Video:1Min:1800 Frames, City without Walls, Newark, NJ. | ||
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2003 |
Artik 5, American - Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, Ramat-Gan Museum, Ramat-Gan. | |
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2002 |
The Kiss, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv | |
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2001 |
Action Express, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv | |
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| Graduate Exhibition, Beit Berel-College-School of Art - "Midrasha" | ||
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| Artik 3, American - Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, University Gallery, Tel-Aviv | ||
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| VideoTrip, Video Art Nightly Project, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv | ||
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Performances |
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| 2005 | Signals, Collaboration with Victoria Hannah, The Kitchen, NY | |
| Screenings | ||
| 2005 | Handmade, Israeli Video Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina. | |
| 2004 | Handmade, Israeli video art in Poland, Warsaw, Poland | |
2003 |
Capture, The Dance Theater workshow, New York | |
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| Handmade, II Festival Dialogu Czterech Kultur, Lodz, Poland. (curated by Liliana Kadichevski) | ||
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| Dirty Old Toy Box, Screening Room, Fluxcore Art Space, Brooklyn. | ||
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| Improvised and Otherwise, a festival of sound and form. Brooklyn. | ||
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| Video marathon, Art in General, NYC | ||
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2002 |
"KuenstlerInnengespraeche", Video Trade between New York – Berlin | |
| Shortcuts, BRAK Expositieruimte, Groningen, the Netherlands | ||
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2001 |
Local Time 3, Group video-art festival, Tel-Aviv Cinemateque. | |
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Awards and Fellowship |
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2005 |
AIM - Artist in the Marketplace fellowship program at the Bronx Museum | |
| 2003-2004 | American - Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation Overseas graduate scholarship. | |
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2000- 2001 |
American - Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation | |
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| Beit Berel Certificates of Honor for artistic excellence and academic achievements | ||
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1999 |
The Germany Foundation Certificate of Honor for academic excellence. | |
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| Beit Berel Certificate of Honor for academic achievements. | ||
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1998 |
Beit Berel Certificate of Honor for academic achievements. | |
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Reviews and Publications |
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| 2006 | Ofri Cnaani- Death Bed, catalog, Haifa museum of Art, Israel | |
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| OFRI CNAANI, Catalog, Galleria PACK, Milano, Italy | ||
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| Dungeon, Block Magazine, Israel, June 2006 | ||
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| Loop Barcelona 2006, Catalog, Spain, 2006 | ||
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| Casati, Martha. Ofri Cnaani, EspoArte, 39, February-March, 2006 | ||
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| The blind scenario, ExhibitArt on Paper, January 2006 | ||
| 2005 | Garwood, Deborah, AMulti-Media artist taut Reporting, ArtCritical, www.artcritical.com, April 16, 2005 | |
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| Garwood, Deborah, AMulti-Media artist taut Reporting, Gay City News, April 14, 2005 | ||
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| Colonel Collection, New York Sun, March 16, 2005 | ||
2004 |
Zanfi, Claudia, Women Artists in the Middle East, Art e Critica 41, December, 2004 | |
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| Going Public 04, Exhibition Catalog, October 2004 | ||
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| Garwood, Deborah, Visionaries, NY arts, August 2004 | ||
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| Litwin, Anat. Visionaires, Exhibition Essay, July 2004 | ||
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| Self Portrait, Tema Celesta magazine, July 2004 | ||
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Zanfi, Claudia. "The sun still shines: One journey One Hope", Milan, March 2004. |
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Uzi Tsur. "Ofri Cnaani: The Black & White theater", Haaretz, January 2004 |
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| Sheffi, Smadar "Ofri Cnaani: The Black & White theater" Haaretz, January 2004 | ||
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2003 |
Art Focus 4, Exhibition Catalog, December 2003 | |
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| Goldfine, Gil. "Under the plastic tree", The Jerusalem Post, May, 2003 | ||
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| Meltzer, Gilad. "Twilight zone", Yediot Ahronoth, April, 2003 | ||
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| Director, Ruty. "The understanding of the ceiling", Ha-Eir, April, 2003 | ||
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| Art In general's 5th Annual Video-Marathon Catalogue, January, 2003 | ||
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2002 |
Sheffi, Smadar. "A playground full of surprises", Haaretz, July 2002 | |
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| Gilerman, Dana, "Its from home", Haaretz, July 2002 | ||
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| Aviv Naomi. The Kiss, Exhibition Catalogue, The kiss: Yehiel Shemi, Yael Cnaani and Ofri Cnaani. Kalisher Gallery, April 2002 | ||
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| Gilerman, Dana. "A game with secret rules", Haaretz, January 2002 | ||
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| Tsur, Uzi. "Reverberating between spaces and senses", Haaretz, January 2002 | ||
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2001 |
Tsur, Uzi. "The Possible Revolving of the Young Artist", Haaretz, August 2001 | |
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| Sanderson, Naomi. "Everything is in Order: Ofri Cnaani's Video-Art
Trilogy", online essay. Available on line at http://www.comme-il-fault.com, August 2001. |
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| Sheffi, Smadar. "Directly to the central circle", Haaretz, July 2001 | ||
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| Gilerman, Dana. "Harmony of negatives", Haaretz, July 2001 | ||
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2000 |
Ben-Ner Guy. Waiting Room, Exhibition essay. Peer gallery, Tel-Aviv,June 2000 | |
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Background |
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| Born in 1975 in Israel. Lives and works in New York. | ||
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