Shai Yehezkelli

↓ education↓ solo & two person↓ group↓ publications

Born 1979 in Israel

Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel

Born in Israel in 1979, Tel Aviv based artist Shai Yehezkelli attended Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, earning his BFA Summa Cum Laude in 2006 and his MFA in 2010. He was awarded The Rappaport prize for a young artist (2015), the 'Bank Leumi Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievements' and the 'Arieli' prize in 2006 and received a grant from The Israeli lottery Culture-Council in 2014. Yehezkelli has exhibited solo shows and has been in group shows in US, UK, Germany, Denmark and in Israel

Exhibitions

Works on Paper on Fridges

Aug 12 - Sept 6, 2022

Education

2010

Master of Fine Arts

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv, Israel

2006

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

Solo & Two Person

2021

Slippery Slope

Uri and Rami Nehoshtan Museum, Ashdot Yaakov, Israel

Eight Priodical Paintings

Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

The Lone Rider and the Wandering Jew, with Sad Azi

The Open University Gallery, Ra’anana, Israel

Risico, with Ron Asulin

Atelier Shemi, Kabri, Israel

2019

The Great Sieste

Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Maarava

Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

Support Beam Fall, with Eden Bannet

Villa Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

2018

Heel to Toe

Oded Shatil Contemporary Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel

Nothing Went Wrong to Write Home About

2024 eV, Hamburg, Germany

2016

In Praise of Avalanche

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2014

With Philistines

Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Abigail Hopkins. Shai Yehezkelli

Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2013

Depression Delights, with Sharon Fadida

The New & Bad Gallery, Haifa, Israel

2012

Forever Sweat-beads

Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Space C

Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

2009

Shouldn’t, Couldn’t, Wouldn’t

Darom Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2007

Fountain

Solo Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Chay Tseeyurim, with Ray Keydar

Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

Group

2022

Shai Yehezkelli, Ester Shneider, Siona Shimshi

The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel

2021

Les Crimes de L’amour

Hagaleria Hagdola, Tel Aviv, Israel

Rooms

Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Laying Under the Hot Shade of a Mad Song

Ombrella Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020

The Story of Pesach

Babur Gallery, Jerusalem

Expanded Book

Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, Germany

Big Minshar

Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Black Sun

Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2019

Hidden Hour

Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida

Maarbolot

Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2018

Collector’s Bedroom

Hansen, Jerusalem, Israel

Stav

Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

No Other Place - Decade Exhibition

The Tel Aviv Convention Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

The Origin of Who U Are Right Now

Kvadrat16 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Between Walls

Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Weisse Weste

Il Caminetto, Hamburg, Germany

2017

There Will Be Nothing

MFA Gallery of Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel

After Chagall. The Breakthrough Century

The Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland

Paper Cuts

The Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, Manchester, United Kingdom

We Are The Ones Doing Work On Canvas

Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Copenhagen, Denmark

Neuland

The Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel

Ingathering: 10th Anniversary of the Rappaport Prize

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

2016

Talush

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

Traces III - The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel

Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

Art Camp 2016: Art Activists

The Negev Museum of Art, Israel

Pop Up

Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Open Sketchbooks

Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel

2015

Good Taste

Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Suspected Urge

Gabirol gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Mind the Gap

Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2014

Nehushtan

Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2013

Goods (Tuvin)

MOBY (Museum of Bat-Yam), Israel

BlackBox

Billboards project, Jerusalem, Israel

2012

2112

The Artist House, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Painting Camp #5

Ramlāh's Local Gallery, Ramlāh, Israel

BAAD Influence

BAAD Gallery, Bezalel, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Sigh of Relief

Beit Uri Nehoshtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov, Israel

2011

Ch'atima Tova

Inga gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Gush

Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Formally Speaking: And What Shall We Do with Painting in The 21st Century?

Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

Execution

Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Sweatshops

Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Contemporary

Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Fresh Paint #4

Art Fair, The Botanical Gardens, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2010

Salame 10

MFA thesis show, MFA Gallery of Bezalel Academy, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Fountain of youth

Temporary States gallery, New York, NY

2009

The invisible dog

No Longer Empty gallery, New York, NY

4 openings in Israeli art

The Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Art TLV Biennial

Neve Tzedek tower site, Tel Aviv, Israel

Your cat is dead

Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

A+4

The GSA, Glasgow, UK

Artists at work

Hagada Hasmalit, Tel Aviv, Israel

The degenerate art

Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2008

Night and day

Gilit Fisher gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Covering the sun

Barbur gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

True Love

Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2007

Bechorot

Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Desert generation

the artist's house, Jerusalem & Hakibutz gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Cats

Eretz Israel museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Reshamim-3rd drawing biennial

The Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel

Beyond the principle

Hamidrasha gallery, Beit Berl, Israel

Fresh Paint #1

Art Fair, Kastiel site, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2006

Half-board

Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Graduates exhibition

The Ben-Gurion airport, Terminal 1, Israel

Publications

Hoshech, Art and Literature

Editors: Ido Gordon & David Duvshani, 2021

Continent, Shlomi Hatuka

Tangier pub., 2020

Nanopoetics 19, Anthology of Hebrew Conceptual Writing

Published by Place for Poetry, 2020

Ingathering, Exhibition catalog

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2017

In Praise of Avalanche, Solo Exhibition catalog

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2016

Talush (Rootless), Exhibition catalog

Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, 2016

Maayan Magazine: Patriotism in Art

Protest Anthology, Issue No. 12, Summer-Autumn 2016

Cocks and Tits and Hurt Feelings

Artist Book, self published, 2014

Israel/One: Contemporary Artists from Israel

Published by Fabrica, Italy, 2014

Pe'amim, Studies in Oriental Jewry, Issue No. 133-134

Literature / Thought / Magic, Ben-Zvi Institute, 2012-13

Man On Fire

Published by Meta Meta Meta LLC, NYC, 2012

Criterion Magazine, Issue No.4

Iconoclasm, September 2012

The New & Bad, Art Magazine, Issue No. 3

Editors: Natalie Levin, Joshua Simon, Roy Chicky Arad, Summer-Autumn 2012

Formally Speaking: And what shall we do with painting in the 21st century? Exhibition catalog

Haifa Museum of Art, 2011

The New & Bad, Art Magazine, Issue No. 2

Editors: Natalie Levin, Joshua Simon, Roy Chicky Arad, Autumn–winter 2010–2011

Leumi Art Collection: Selected Works

Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir Pub., 2010

Salame 10, MFA thesis show, Exhibition catalog

Curators: Nahum Tevet, Yossi Breger, 2010

The Tel Aviv-Yafo Biennial, ARTTLV 09, Exhibition catalog

Editor: Michael Kessus Gedalyovich, June–July 2009

Ktovet, Literary Review

Carmel Publication, June–July 2009

Hamidrasha 11

(Parody–Irony, Editor: Gilad Meltzer, Fall Issue, 2008

Faces: Culture, society & education journal, No. 43

Editor: Rubik Rosental August, 2008

Traces III-The Third Biennale for drawing in Israel, Exhibition catalog

The Artists House, 2007

Cats–Cats. People & what lies between them, Exhibition catalog

Eretz Israel Museum, 2007