CRG Gallery
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Education
1995 MA in Photography, Royal College of Art, London
1992 BA (Honors) in Photography, Film & Video, University of Westminster, London
Solo Exhibition
2010 Places That Were Not, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
  Places That Were Not, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Places That Were Not, Mummery+Schnelle Gallery, London
2009 Evaders, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  Black Box: Ori Gersht, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
2008 Folding Time, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv 
  Pomegranate, The Jewish Museum, New York
  Blow Up, Time After Time & Pomegranate, Centro Andaluz De La Fotografia, Almeria, Spain.
  The Forest, Musée d’Art de Toulon, Toulon, France
  Time Folds, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
  Ori Gersht & Jan Breughel the Elder, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2007 Time After Time, Mummery + Schnelle, London, UK
  The Forest, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
  The Clearing, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  The Forest, Mic Toi Rerehiko Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2006 The Clearing, (travelling exhibition), SpaceX, Exater, UK, Photo Gallery, Cardiff, UK, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, UK
  The Forest, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
  Liquidation, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  The Clearing, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  The Forest, CRG Gallery, NY
  The Clearing, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2005 Liquidation, CRG Gallery, NY
2004 Blaze, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
  Blaze, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  History In The Making, Photo España, Madrid, Spain
  Ghost & Concrete City Scans, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Ghost, The Armory Show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Black Soil, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Afterglow, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Mass Culture, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
  AfterGlow, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK (leaflet)
  White Noise, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001 White Noise, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
  Liste 01 - The Young Art Fair in Basel, with Andrew Mummery Gallery, Switzerland
  White Noise, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  AfterWars, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Ireland
  White Noise, Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne, Germany
  Mass Culture, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
2000 AfterWars, Gardner Art Centre, Brighton, UK
  Pitch, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
1999 AfterWars, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
  Vital Signs, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1993 Ori Gersht. Just Bring Your Body, Metro Gallery, London, UK
1992 Ori Gersht. Just Bring Your Body, Zone Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Group Exhibitions
2010 Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
  Still / Moving, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  The image as moving paintings and the return of the genres, Fundacion Francisco
  Godia, Barcelona, Spain
  Beijing International Art Biennale 2010 (BIAB10,) National At Museum, Beijing, China
  Atlantis II, Rohkunstbau, Berlin, Germany
  Krieg/Individuum, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenoessische Kunst Muenster, Muenster,
  Germany
  Windows, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  Kunstsaele Berlin
  Natural Conflicts, photography and films from Israel, Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada
  Impressionism and Video Art: the echo of light, The Normandy impressionist festival,
  Seine-Maritime, Rouen, France.
  Hugging & Wrestling – Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video, Museum of
  Contemporary Art, Cleveland.
  When a Painting Moves, touring exhibition: Centro Colombia-Americano, Colombia;
  Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico; MoCCA, Toronto, Canada.
  Latitudes a photography, Huelva, Spain.
  Luegen.nirgends (Lies.nowhere), Austellungshalle –zeitgenoessische Kunst Munster,
  Munster, Germany.
  Unique Paintings, Fundacion Godia, Barcelona, Spain.
  Calm Before the Storm, Winzavod Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
  Paysage – Vidéo, Musée d’Art, Toulon, France
2009 The Summer Show, CRG Gallery, NY
  Order From Chaos: Ori Gersht, Idris Kahn, Boo Ritson (curated by Tamar Arnon), Centro Andaluz De La Fotografia, Almeria, Spain
2008 Peace and agriculture in a pre-Romantic ideal landscape without sublime terrors,Haunch of Venison, Berlin
  Contemporary Flowers, Curated by Glynnis McDaris, Fake Estate, New York, NY
  The Aerials of Sublime Transscapes, Lokaal 1, Breda, Holland
  Pomegranate: A video by Ori Gersht, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
  Depletion, works from the Doron Sebbag Collection, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  Personal Landscape; contemporary Art from Israel, The Katzen, American University Museum, Washington, USA.
  Ori Gersht & Jan Breughel the Elder , Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Visions in the Nunney, The Nunnery, London
  Static: Contemporary Still Life and Portraiture, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
  Mutation II; Europian Month of Photography, Masion Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, Kulturprojekte, Berlin, Fotofo, Bratislave, Vladmir Und Estragon, Vienna, Estragon, Association Café Crème, Luxenbourg, Musee de la Photographie, Moscou, Zone Attive, Rome
2007 The Last Seduction of Welcome Surrender to Beauty, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, USA
  Loop ’07 – Barcelona - The Video Art festival, Galeria Dels Ángels, Barcelona, Spain
  Video Killed the Painting Star, Museum of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
  Pomegranate, Tate Britain, London, “Single Shot” commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella and The Film Council, UK
  In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London
  1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands
  My Vision, ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany
  Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2006 Inside-Out, Contemporary Artists from Israel, museum MARCO, Vigo, Spain
  Making Journeys, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
  Inside-Out. Contemporary Artists from Israel, Museum MARCO, Vigo, Spain
  Forest Primeval, MoCA Georgia, Atlanta, GA
  Fata Morgana , Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
  Illusions, Haifa Museum, Israel
  Spatial dualism in the Eye of the Camera - Landscape Photography 1945-1963, The Spatial Dualism in the Eye of the Camera - Landscape Photography 1945-1963, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel
  Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  Forest Dreaming, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter UK
  Single Shot, commisioned by Film & Video Umbrella and The Film Council, UK
  My Vision, ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany
2005 Citizen, PM Gallery & House, London, City Gallery, Leicester, Oriel Davies Gallery Newtown,
  Powys/Wales, Ormeau Bath Gallery Belfast, Northern Ireland
2004 Voluntary Memory: imagining the invisible past, Austrian Cultural Forum London, London, UK
  El Jardi’n De Las Delicias, Galeria Guereta, Madrid, Spain
  Historias, Photo España 2004, Madrid
  Tirana International, Tirana, Albania
  Tales of the City, Arte Fiera 2004, (curated for the British Council by students from the MA Curating course, Goldsmiths College) Bologna Fiere, Italy
2003 Strangers to Ourselves, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone
  Up Close and Personal, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, UK
  Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
  One Ground, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA
  Der Berg, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
  Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
  Culture and Continuity, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2002 eality Check, Recent Developments in British Photography and Video, curated by Kate Bush and
  Brett Rogers. Touring exhibition organised by The British Council and The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
  Willard Boepple, Ori Gersht and Albrecht Schäfer, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
  Non-Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  5:1, Fotogalerie, Altefeuerwache Kulturzentrum, Mannheim, Germany
2001 Melancholy, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
  Base Metal, Gallery Fine 2, London, UK
  Six International Fototage, Herten, Germany
2000 warningSHOTS!, Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, UK
  Don’t Worry, Chelsea Westminster Hospital, London, UK
  The Leon Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum
  of Art, Tel Aviv (with Dalia Amotz and Simcha Shirman), Israel
1998 Global II Collection, Pearson Education, Edinburgh Gate, Harlow
  Open Studios, Whitechapel Open, London
1997 Home Ideals, curated by FAT, Therbeton St, London, UK
  Para-Site, curated by Kurt Vanbelleghem, Gulden Vlies Galerijen, Brussels
1996 John Kobal Award, National Portrait Gallery, London. Touring to the National Gallery of
  Edinburgh; Museum of Film & Photography, Bath; Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK Deep Signal, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Gasworks Gallery, London, UK
  Lightness & Weight, curated by Not Cut, The Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK
  After the Flood, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
1995 Atrium, Atrium Cork Street Gallery, London, UK
  Cabinet Art, Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London, UK
  Selected Contemporary Artists, Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
1994 South Bank Photographic Show, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
1993 British Transport Competition, Mall Gallery, London, UK
1992 21eme Salon International de la Recherche Photographique, Royan Cedex, France
  Zone Gallery, Newcastle, UK
1991 South Bank Photographic Show, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
1990 South Bank Photogrpahic Show, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
  Cartier Foundation Prize, ICA Gallery, London, UK
Awards and Residencies
2006 Big Bang, a film commissioned by the V&A for the exhibition Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour.
  Pomegranate, a short film commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella and the Film Council UK as part of the Single Shot project
2005 The Forest, a film commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella
2004 First Prize winner, Onfuri International, Tirana, Albania
2003 Commissioned by the Museum of Nottingham Castle to produce sight specific work for the
  Drawing with Light exhibition
  BBC White City Public Art Strategy Photographic Commission
2002 Consultant to the architectural development planning of the South London Gallery
2000 The Leon Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1997 Residency at Whitefield School, Barnet
1993 Prize winner, British Transport Competition, Mall Gallery, London, UK
1990 Prize winner, South Bank: Annual Show, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
Collections
  Deutsche Bank, London
  J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  Guggenheim Museum, New York
  Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
  Hyde Park Center Collection, University of Chicago
  Imperial War Museum, London
  Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  Jewish Museum, New York
  Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
  Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, USA
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
  Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK
  Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK
  Tate Gallery, London, UK
  Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  UBS, London
  UK Government Art Collection
  Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Exhibition Catalogues
2004 The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Charlotte Cotton, pp. 170-171, Thames & Hudson World of Art, ISBN 0-500-20380-6
  Historias, PHE04 (Photo Espana), Spain, ISBN 84-95471-97-3
  Photo España 04, La Fabrica, Madrid. ISBN 84-9571-97-3
  Tales of the City, British Council, Bologna Fiere, Italy. ISBN 88-422-1232-6
  Young Israeli Art, The Jacques & Eugenie O’Hana Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. ISBN 965-7161-04-5
2003 Up Close and Personal, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham. ISBN 0-905-634-659
  Strangers to Ourselves, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone. ISBN 0-9518262-2-0
  Israeli Contemporary Photography. Three Generations, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. Cat. 8
  Der Berg, Hans Gercke, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg. ISBN 3-933257-99-9
2002 Reality Check, The British Council and The Photographers Gallery, London, UK. Cat. / Publ.
  Non Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Lukas & Stenberg, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 0-9711193-3-3
2001 City Levels, Nick Barley and Ally Ireson, August/Birkhauser, London and Basel, pp. 24, 25, & 53
  Six International Fototage, Herten, DAS Bild Forum, Germany. ISBN 3-7643-6315-0
2000 Don’t Worry, published by Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Arts, London.
  Warning Shots, published by Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. ISDN 0-948092-44-0 A Case for Art: A Contemporary Art Collection, published by DLA & Partners, London
1997 Para-Site, text by Denis Gielen "Passage autorisé", Published by Gulden Vlies Galerijen, Brussels.
1996 John Kobal Award, published by National Portrait Gallery, London.
  After the Flood, text by Paul Kilsby. Published by Royal College of Art, London
  Lightness & Weight, published by Not Cut, London
Bibliography
2009 Rosenberg, Karen, Ori Gersht, Art in Review, New York Times, Oct 8, 2009
  Armstrong, Carol, Ori Gersht: The Angel of History, Eikon, July 2009
  Wecker, Menachem, Falling Trees and Exploding Pomegranates, The Jewish Press,
2008 Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Ori Gersht: Time Folds", Art Review, May 2008
2007 Birke, Judy, "A Family Diary and the Holocaust...", New Haven Register, Nov. 24, 2007
  Cotter, Holland, "Snap Judgments of Israel, More Than Words Can Say", New York Times, April 14, 2007
2006 Glover, Michael, "Keep it short, keep it sweet", London Times, November 8, 2006
  Princenthal, Nancy, "Ori Gersht at CRG", Art in America, Reviews, pp184-185, May 2006
  Dyer, Richard, "Towards the Re-Presentation of History: Ori Gersht in conversation with Richard Dyer", Pluk, Jan. 2006
  Kent, Sarah, "Photographers Gallery" Time Out / London, Photography, January 25, 2005
2005 Searle, Adriane, "Secrets of the Forest", The Guardian, December 20, 2005
  Gavin, Miranda, "Distilling the Essence, Ori Gersht’s Liquidation", HOT SHOE, October 2005
  Rappolt, Mark, "Ori Gersht: being and nothingness", Modern Painters, April 2005
  Gould, Simon, "Voluntary Memory - Imagining the Invisible Past," Contemporary, No. 70, p. 66-672004
2004 Sumpter, Helen, "Ori Gersht," TimeOut, London, Nov. 10
  Myers, Holly. "Weathered But Living Ghosts," Los Angeles Times, June 18th
  Green, Tyler. "L.A. Galleries Roundup, part two: Ori Gersht at Angles Gallery," Art Journal, Jun. 4
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  Johnson, Ken. "Ori Gersht - Black Soil," The New York Times, p.E42, Jan.3rd
  Audio Art Magazine, Interview with Jean Wainwright, Volume 21, No. 2
  Rear Window, AA Files, 49 (2003) pp. 70-75, ISSN 0261-6823, ISBN 1-902901-34-3
  The Independence Exhibition, SLG7, South London Gallery magazine, Issue 7, p.1
  A Sense of Place In The Work of Ori Gersht and Shirin Neshat, Film Wave Magazine/Art IN Sight, Issue 20, Jan., pp. 5-7
2002 Le Quotidien De La Fiac, Numéro 5, Les Journal Des Arts, October 24 – 28
  Wainwright, Jean. "Ori Gersht - Tate Britain," Art Monthly, July - August, No. 258, p.38-39
  Dykstra, Jean, "Afterglow: Ori Gersht," Art on Paper, Vol. 7, No. 1, p.110
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  Kent, Sarah, Afterglow, Tate Britain, Time Out London, July 3-10, No. 1663
  Time Out, "Ori Gersht: Tate Britain," July 3-10
  Tamhane, Swapna. "All Borders will Dissolve" Flux, Issue 31, June/July, p.32-33
  Goldfine, Gil. "A goal kicked from center field," Jerusalem Post, May 31
  Pitman, Joanna. "The Judean wilderness has a message for us all..." The Times, May 29, p.11
  Güner, Fisun. "What lies beneath?," Metro Life, May 23, p.22
  Coomer, Martin. "#1MY NAME IS…ORI GERSHT," Time Out, May 22
  Fergusson, Ben. "Day by Day by Ori Gersht & Tracy Ferguson", Art Review, April
  David Brittain, Ori Gersht: The Knowledge Factory, Portfolio, No. 35, June, ISBN 1354-4446, pp. 20-23, 57
  Being There, Flux, Issue 31, June/July, pp. 32-33
  Afterglow, Time Out London, Interview about Tate Exhibition, No. 1657, May 15-22
2001 Falconer, Morgan. "White Noise, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London", What’s On, May 30, p.22
  Falconer, Morgan. "Profile (interview)," Art Review (Jul. - Aug.), p. 52.
  Warning Shots, Kunstforum International, B153 (Jan. - Mar.), pp. 112-113
  West, Richard. "Afterwars", Source Magazine, no. 28 (Autumn), pp. 46-47.
  Afterwars, AA Files, 42, inside cover and pp. 36-38, ISSN 0261-6832, ISBN 1-902902-18-1
  White Noise, Muza Art Quarterly, 4, April, pp. 64-65 (Hebrew).
2000 Green, Alison. "Don’t Worry", Art Monthly, May-June, pp. 47-48.
  Searle, Adrian. "warningSHOTS!", The Guardian, Saturday, Jun. 3
  Flash Art, Vol. XXXIII, No. 214 (Oct.), p. 41.
  Morley, Simon. "Pitch", Independent on Sunday, Oct. 8
  Currah, Mark. "Pitch", Time Out London, Issue 1573, Oct. 11-18
  Richman, Simmy. "They Think It’s All Over," Independent on Sunday, Sept. 16.
  White Noise, Poland", HotShoe International, May/Jun, pp. 14-19
  Pitch, Studio Art Magazine, 116, Aug. - Sept., Tel Aviv, cover and pp. 25-33, Hebrew
1999 Townsand, Chris. "Afterwars", HotShoe Magazine, May-June, p. 10.
  Geldard, Rebecca. "Afterwars",Time Out London, 16 Jun.
  Thrift, Julia. "Afterwars", Time Out London, 16-23 June, No. 1504
  Masterson, Piers. "Afterwars", Art Paper, USA, Sept.
  Masterson, Piers. "Ori Gersht’s Sarajevo Photographs" Creative Camera, p.20-27, Oct/Nov Issue.
  Special for Studio: Afterwars and Rear Window, Studio Art Magazine, Mar., pp. 55-58, Hebrew
  Afterwars, Bosnia, Zoo, London, Issue 3, October, pp. 310-311
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1995 Update, Art Review, May
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1992 Playing with Reality, New Moon, November
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Radio
2003 New Brit Art, Programme 3: Ori Gersht, BBC Radio 4, Presented by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, producer Michael Nangla