Orit Ishay focuses on photography, video and neon installation. In her work she explores human-place relations and interactions, and seeks to raise social and mental questions by focusing on the ways identities are constructed. Ishay’s representations of reality is seductive, deceptive, and aesthetic. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions organized by institutions such as the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, MNAC Bucharest Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul Contemporary Art Museum, Hamidrasha Gallery, and Art Cube Artists’ Studios Jerusalem. Her works are in public and private collections, including The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Ashdod Art Museum, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, among others.
Ishay is a senior lecturer of photography at the Sapir Academic College School of Art. She graduated from the advanced art studies at Hamidrasha School of Arts, Beit Berl (2012, with honors); David Yellin College of Education Arts Track, Jerusalem (2007, with honors); and the Photography Department at Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem (2006, with honors).
Orit has won numerous awards and grants including: Art Lane Found Grant (2023), Artis Contemporary Art Association Grant (2022), the Ministry of Culture and Sport Creativity Encouragement Prize (2021), the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts (2009, 2020), artist residency and solo exhibition grant in ARAC Bucharest, Romania (2018), Video Art Grant from Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2015), artist residency in MuseumsQuartier 21, Vienna, Austria (2014), Jerusalem Print Workshop (2012), America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship (2006-2008) and more.
www.oritishay.com
Solo Shows
2023 our house is cut out of soft wallpaper, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, curator: Cristina Stoenescu
2023 Oasis Shalvata, Be’eri Gallery, Kibbutz Be’eri, IL, curator: Dr. Ziva Jelin (Cat)
2021 A Fingernail in the Eye of the Sun, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv, curator: Avi Lubin
2021 Tarnished Gold, Artist Wall, Art Cube Artists’ Studios Jerusalem, IL, curator: Dveer Shaked
2019 Golden Ring, Art Cube Artists’ Studios Jerusalem, Israel, curator: Dveer Shaked
2019 Someone Has Been Sleeping In My Bed, Philomena+, Vienna, Austria, curator: Basak Senova
2018 There Is a Lion Across The River, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curator: Cristina Stoenescu
2018 Land Stand!, Dana Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel, curator: Ravit Harari
2017 Deer Country, Prague City Gallery House of Photography, Czech Republic, curator: Dalia Levin (Booklet)
2015 Half Moon Half Sun, Art Cube Artists’ Studios Gallery Jerusalem, Israel, curator: Avi Lubin (Cat.)
2015 Public Domain, Shelters, Senate Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, curator: Prof. Haim Maor (Cat.)
2014 Terribly Pretty, Awfully Beautiful, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel, curator: Yael Keini
2014 Way 2 Way, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel, curator: Raz Samira (Booklet)
2013 Fire Zone, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel, curator: Yael Keini
2012 1917 (as a part of Attributes exhibition), MoBY – Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, Israel, curator: Barak Ravitz (Cat.)
2011 Lucky Numbers, Kaye Gallery for the Arts, Kaye College, Be’er Sheva, IL, curator: Israel Rabinovitz (Cat.)
2010 Lucky Numbers, the Gallery in Kibbutz Bee’ri, Israel, curator: Ziva Yellin
2010 Public Domain – Seven Boom, the Gallery on the Cliff, Netanya, Israel, curator: Monica Lavi
2009 Public Domain, TheHeder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, curator: Rona Sela (Cat.)
2008 Fire Zone, the Gallery in Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel, curator: Yael Keini
2008 Blocked, the Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, curator: Judith Matzkel
2007 Regarding Pilgrims, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, curator: Chris Schwarz
2006 Regarding Pilgrims, Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland, curator: Chris Schwarz
Group Shows
2023 Poetics of Hospitality, Vol. II, curated by Cristina Stoenescu, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest
2023 Privet Space: Between Photography and Print, The Social Gallery, Musrara School of Art, Jerusalem, curator: Galit Rauchwerger
2023 Pots & Present, MOMO- Contemporary Art at Hasmonean Heritage Museum, Modiin, IL, curtaors: Nitza Perry, Meyrav Shay
2022 In Search of Lost Memory, Museum Bar-David of Arts, kibbutz Baram, IL, curator: Sorin Heller
2022 Offices 1, Beit-Hanking Gallery for Contemporary Israeli Art, Kfar-Yehosua, IL, curators: N. Haber, A. Hertswolf, O. Etkin Raviv
2022 Israel Video Art, film festival, Gallery on the Water Noass art center, Riga, Latvia, curator: Drorit Gur-Arie
2022 Blazing Sun, Art Space TLV, Contemporaray art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Shira Friedman
2022 Playground, Trumpeldor Gallery, Art Center Beer-Sheva, curator: Dr. Maayan Amir & Graduates of the curatorial course for BA degree in Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2021 Image fantome, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest
2021 The 4th Mediterranean Biennale. Living Together – Crossing Borders, Haifa, Israel
2020 Here Are All the Flowers, Koresh 14 Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, curator: Dveer Shaked
2019 ZUMU – Museum on the Move, fourth station, Kiryat-Yam, Israel, curators: Ofra Harnam and Ruth Oppenheim
2019 Rituals II, FotoGallerie Wein, Austria, curator: Susanne Gamauf (Cat.)
2019 THEART, Hamidrasha 19 Hayarkon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, curators: Nicola Trezzi and Didi Hamburger
2019 The Mask Principle, Bar – David Museum of Art, Kibbutz Baram, Israel, curator: Avi Ifergan
2019 Between Real and Abstract, Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel, curator: Ofra Raif
2019 The House of Dwelling, Carmel Forest, Israel, curator: Sharon Toval
2019 Prom, Beit Tami, a Special Projects of Fresh Paint – Israeli art fair, Tel Aviv, Israel, curator: Carmit Blumensohn
2018 Carry That Weight, Jerusalem Artists’ House, IL, curator: Iris Mendel
2018 The Magic Kingdome, Beit Rami and Uri Nehostan Museum, Ashdot Ya’acov, IL, curator: Avi Lubin
2018 KOLNOA.CZ – Israeli Film Festival 2018- Israeli Video Art, Kino Pilotu & Kino 35, Prague, CZ, curator: Hagai Segev
2018 Eye Contact, Art Gallery of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL, curator: Yivsam Azgad
2018 First Offerings, City Gallery Kfar Saba, IL, curator: Meira Perry Lehmen
2018 Eid al Adha, Hanina Contemporary Art gallery, IL, curator: Shira Gepstien Moshkovich
2017 Free Radicals and Anti-Oxidants, the New Gallery in Musrara, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Dafna Ichilov
2017 Zoom from the Inside Zoom from the Outside, Yad Tabenkin Historical Museum, IL, curator: Dalia Keinan
2017 Understanding the Body, Sapir College Art Gallery, IL, curator: Ziva Yellin
2017 Decade and More, Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri, IL, curator: Ofra Raif
2017 Residents in Stations, photo archive of residents of Ofakim, exhibition at bus stations in the city Ofakim, IL
2016 Women Resources, ACAC- Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad, IL, curator: Hadas Kedar
2016 In The Place Where We Stand, JCC New York, USA, curator: Avi Sabag
2016 Ho Guard, Historical Museum Beit Hankin, Kfar Yehoshua, IL, curator: Neta Haber
2016 Monochrome, Kupferman collection Museum, Lohamei Hagetaot, IL, curator: Dalia Levin
2016 On the Verge, Sapir College Art Gallery, IL, curator: Maayan Shelef and students of curating course
2016 Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki & Antje Ehmann, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, ES
2016 Is It Art?, Janco Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, IL, curators: Honi Hameagel and Raya Zomer
2016 Other Provisions, Sapir Collage Art Gallery, IL, curator: Michal Shamir
2016 Salon Beton, Outdoor exhibition in Arad City center, IL
2016 Photo Nachum, Photo archive of residence of Nachum Neighborhood, Sderot, IL
2015 Super Women, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, IL, curator: Sigal Kehat Krinski
2015 Drawer, the Barber, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann, House of the World’s Cultures, Berlin, DE
2015 Black and White, Shechter Gallery at Neve-Shechter Contemporary Jewish Culture and Art Center, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Shira Friedman
2015 Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2015 Stations #1, Video screening, Cinematheque Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Carmel Gottlieb
2015 Shelters, Senate Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IL, curator: Prof. Haim Maor
2015 Scales, Shechter Gallery at Neve-Shechter Contemporary Jewish Culture and Art Center, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Shira Friedman (Cat.)
2015 The Other, art in the public space, festival in the southern city – Ashkelon, IL
2014 Homage to Struck: the Art of Print Today, Herman Struck Museum, Haifa, IL, curator: Svetlana Reingold
2014 Rising Star, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL, curators: Dalia Levin, Tal Bechler, Ghila Limon
2014 Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehamann, Mills Gallery, Boston Center, USA
2014 Re-Imagining Jerusalem, dialogue with Beit Avi Chai photography collection, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Rona Sela
2014 Secular Judaism, Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Monica Lavi
2014 Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann, Folkwangmuseum, Essen, DE
2014 Disturbed Landscape, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Shahar Marcus
2014 Confessions, the Artists’ Residence, Herzliya, IL, curator: Karni Barzilay
2014 Living Space, Zaritsky Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Varda Ginosar, Dalia Danon (Cat.)
2014 City Lights 2, Where Is George, The Lake gallery in Anabe Park Modi’in, IL
2014 Stations #1, Video screening in the yard of the Suzanne Dellal cultural center Tel Aviv, IL
2013 Good Girls – Memory, Desire, Power, MNAC, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO, curator: Bojana Pejic
2013 Open Doors, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, PT, curator: Claudia Giannetti
2013 Not Book – Pushtit, Beit Ha’ir, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Guy Morag Tzepelewitz
2013 Becoming, Hamidrasha 19 Hayarkon Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Boaz Arad
2013 No Ego, MusraraMix 13 Festival, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Ayelet Hashahar Cohen
2013 Yes Minister (Limited Edition), the Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Gilad Melzer
2013 Friends with Benefit(s), CCA, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Chen Tamir, Sergio Edelsztein
2013 Plaster, Jaffa Art Salon Gallery, Warehouse 2, Jaffa Port, IL, curators: Vardit Gross, Karmit Galili
2013 Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ahamann, Lumiar Cite Lisbon, PT
2013 Just Another Day, video project with Harun Farocki and Antje Ahamann, Museum Sztuki Lodz, PL
2013 Labor in a Single Shot – Just Another Day, EPOS International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL, Curator: Antje Ehmann
2013 Artificial Islands, Municipal Art Gallery, Ramla, IL, curator: Shahar Marcus
2013 Taboo Registration, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Shira Gepstien Moshkovich
2013 Videocracy, open screening in the CCA Tel Aviv square, IL
2013 Pathways in the Air, a group exhibition on bridges over Nahal Alexander (Alexander stream), IL
2012 Patterns of Behavior, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Irena Gordon
2012 Breathing Concrete, KB45 art space, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Karmit Galili
2012 Safe Harbor, the Cube Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Nitza Perry
2012 Daily Reports, MNAC, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO, curator: Carmen Iovitu
2012 Minor Exhibition, Hamidrasha 19 Hayarkon Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Haim Deuel Luski
2012 Teen Spirit, Grid 2012, International Photography Biennial, Amsterdam, NL, curators: Avi Sabag, Eyal Ben-Dov
2012 Land of Promise, video screening, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Hagit Peleg Rotem
2012 New in the Collection, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, IL, curator: Yona Fischer
2012 Land of Promise, video screening, TMCA Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2012 In The Making – Testing Tools #9, Beit Tami, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Carmit Blumensohn
2012 Written On Wall, Beit Kaner Art Gallery, Rishon Lezion, IL, curator: Effi Gan
2012 Closing Party, the Heder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Neta Gal-Atzmon
2012 Sand Uproar, AUP Arcive project by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Guy Tortosa with e-flux & the Serpentine Gallery – London at the DAADGalerie Berlin, DE
2012 The End of the World, Meyuhas Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Galit Semel
2012 Fresh Paint #5 – Israeli Art Fair, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Ofra Raif
2012 One Kilometer, #2 Haifa Walks, as a part of the exhibition HAIFA-JERUSALEM-TEL AVIV, Haifa Museum of Art, IL
2012 Green Kuku, a site specific installation, Contemporary Art Festival, #9
2012 Testing Tools, In the Making, a site specific installation, Contemporary Art Festival, #9
2012 City Lights, a group exhibition in the business district, Modi’in, IL
2011 Right Here, Right Now, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, UK, curator: Clement Louis
2011 Out of Proportion, Beit Kaner Art Gallery, Rishon Lezion, IL, curator: Effi Gen (Cat.)
2011 Fox Tails on Fire, Rothschild 12 Art Space, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Gilad Ratman
2011 Where is There, Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery, IL, curator: Ora Kraus (Cat.)
2011 Hunger Rush, the Farm Gallery, Holon, IL, curator: Nitza Perry
2011 Land of Promise, Video screening, Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA, curator: Hagit Peleg Rotem
2011 Fresh Paint #4 – Israeli Art Fair, the Botanic Gardens, Tel Aviv, IL
2010 New in Photography – Recent Acquisitions, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Nissan Perez
2010 Safe Haven, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Shelly Cohen, Tula Amir (Cat.)
2010 Identity 3: Positioning, WUK- FotogalerieWien, Vienna, AU, curator: Susanne Gamauf
2010 Small is Beautiful – Fire Zone, Vernon Gallery, Prague, Tina B. Contemporary Art Festival Czech, CZ, curator: Monika Burian (Cat.)
2010 Fresh Paint #3 – Israeli Art Fair, Jaffa Tel Aviv Port, IL
2009 Fotografie aus Israel, Kultur Bahnhof Eller Dusseldorf, DE, curators: Jutta Zaum, Avraham Eilat
2009 Art of Emergency, Artneuland Berlin, DE, curator: Yael Katz Ben-Shalom
2009 Compact Duo, 10 Gallery, Beit Michal, Rehovot, IL, curator: Carmit Blumensohn
2009 Big Spender, 5 Place for Art, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Gilit Fischer, Raz Samira
2009 Bread and Roses, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2009 Idolatry/Foreign Work, MusraraMix 09 festival, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Irit Carmon Popper
2009 The Musical Car, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Gilit Fischer, Karin Medelovici
2009 Oskar, protest installation, setting a 3 meters high sculpture, The Tel Aviv #1 International Art Biennial public square
2008 Holga, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, USA, curator: Ann Jastraub
2008 No Where, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, IL, curators: Avraham Eilat, Yaakov Hefetz
2007 Cats and Others, Eretz-Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Dana Tagar
2007 Jerusalem of One’s Eye, the Social Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Eyal Ben-Dov
2007 Artic 9, the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Sorin Heller
2007 Desert Generation, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curators: Larry Abramson, David Tartakover, Sliman Mansour, David Reeb
2007 Desert Generation, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem, IL, curators: Larry Abramson, David Tartakover, Sliman Mansour, David Reeb
2007 Collective 82, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, curator: Rachel Sukman
2007 Go A-Hat, Corinne Maman Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod, IL, curator: Yael Wiesel
2006 Bread, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Noam Baram Ben Yosef
2006 Attitude 03, Magaza Museum, MK, curator: Bilijana Petrovska (Cat.)
2006 Periphery, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Gaston Zvi Ickowicz
2006 Anonymous, Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa, IL, curators: Elad Armon, Philip Rantzer
2006 Captured Moments, the Edge gallery, Nahariya, IL, curator: Lee Rimon
2006 Graduate Exhibition, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Ram Bracha
2006 Kogniya, Musrara Community Gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: David Daniel
2005 Attitude 02, Magaza Museum, MK, curator: Basak Senova (Cat.)
2005 Moroccan Charm, Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Rachel Hasson
2005 MusraraMix05, The social gallery, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Avi Sabag
2004 Disinformation My Love, Israel Festival in Jerusalem, IL, curator: Buki Greenberg
2004 Installations and Activities in the Public Realm
Awards, Scholarships and Residencies
2023 Art Lane Found grant for a solo exhibition
2022 Artis Contemporary Art Association, Grant for a solo exhibition, NYC and Tel Aviv, USA & IL
2021 Ministry of Culture and Sport, Creativity Encouragement Prize, IL
2021 Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Division of Culture and Arts with the Yehoshua Rabinovitch Foundation for the Arts, IL
2021 Jerusalem municipality, Department of Art and Culture, IL
2020 LowRes Jerusalem International Artist-in-Residence studio program, Art Cube Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem, IL
2020 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv, IL
2018 Gottesman Etching Center, Artist-in-Residency, Kibbutz Cabri, IL
2018 Arac-Plantelor 58, Atist-in-Residency, Bucharest, RO
2018 Anca Poterasu Gallery and AFCN -National Cultural Fund Administration Romania, Bucharest, RO
2017 Foreign Ministry support for a solo exhibition in Prague, CZ
2016 Eikon International award, printed book: 5X5 photo tracks, 25 contemporary photographers, AU
2016 ACAC-Arad Art Architecture Center, Artist-in-Residency, IL
2016 Jerusalem municipality, Department of Art and Culture, IL
2016 ACAC- Arad Contemporary Art Center, IL
2015 Petach Tikva Museum, IL
2015 ACAC- Arad Art architecture Center, Artist-in-Residency, Arad, IL
2015 LowRes Jerusalem International Artist-in-Residency studio Program, Art Cube Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem, IL
2014 Museums Quartier Wien, quartier 21, Artist-in-Residency, Vienna, AU
2012 Jerusalem Print Workshop, IL
2011 Gottesman Etching Center, Artist-in-Residency, Kibbutz Cabri, IL
2009 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv, IL
2006-2008 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Creative Excellence Grant in Photography
2006 Graduation with honors, The Naggar School of Photography, Media & New Music in Musrara,
Photography Department, Jerusalem, IL
Collections
MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, AU
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, SP
MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, PL
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Ashdod Museum of Art, IL
The Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, IL
The Sip, Shpilman Photography Institute, IL
Bank Ha’poalim Art Collection, IL
Beit Avi Chai, Jerusalem, IL
Recanati Art Collection, Tel Aviv, IL
America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv, IL
CCA Tel Aviv Video Archive, IL
The Israeli Center for Digital Art Holon, Video Archive. IL
BAAD Gallery – Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, IL
Art Hotel Bay Club Haifa, an Atlas Boutique Hotel chain, IL
Private Collections in Israel and abroad
