Ori Gersht

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Biographical Notes
1967 Born in Tel Aviv
Lives and works in London
Since 1997 Senior lecturer, school of Photography, BA(Hons) & MA, at the Kent Institute of Art & Design
Since 2004 Research reader at the Kent Institute of Art & Design
1993-95 M.A. in Photography, Royal College of Art, London
1982-92 B.A. (Hons) in Photography, Film and video, University of Westminster, London
One-man Exhibitions
2008 - Time Folds, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
2007 - Time After Time: Exploding Flowers & Other Matters, The Armory Show (with CRG Gallery), New York, USA
2007 - Works, Yale University, British Art Centre, Connecticut
2007 - The Clearing, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 - Mummery & Schnelle Gallery, London
2006 - The Forest, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 - Liquidation Noga Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 - The Clearing, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2006 - The Forest, CRG Gallery, New York, USA
2006 - The Clearing, Photographers Gallery, London, UK SpaceX Exeter, UK, Photo Gallery Cardiff, Wells
2006 - Galway Art Festival, Ireland, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds, UK
2005 - The Clearing, Photographers Gallery, London
2005 - Liquidation, CRG Gallery, New York
2004 - Blaze, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
2004 - Blaze, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 - History In The Making, Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain
2004 - Ghost & Concrete City Scans, Angels Gallery, LA, USA
2004 - Ghost, one person show at the Armoury Show , CRG Gallery, NY, USA
2003 - Black Soil, CRG Gallery, NY, USA
2002 - AfterGlow, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK
2002 - Afterglow Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2002 - Mass culture, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
2002 - White Noise, Angels Gallery, LA, USA
2001 - White Noise, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
2001 - Liste - The Young Art Fair in Basel, with Andrew Mummery Gallery, Switzerland
2001 - White Noise, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 - Afterwars, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Irland
2001 - White Noise, Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2001 - Mass Culture, Refusalon, San Francisco, USA
2000 - "Pitch", Chisenhale Gallery, London
2000 - "After Wars", Gardner Art Center, Brighton
1999 - "Vital Signs", Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999 - "After Wars", Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
1993 - Metro Gallery, London


Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 - Personal Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel, Katzen Museum, Washington DC
2008 - The Aerials of Sublime Transscapes, Lokaal 01_Breda, Antwerpen
2008 - Depletion, Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2008 - Israel Discount Bank Collection, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod
2007 - Loop ’07 – Barcelona - The Video Art festival, Galeria Dels Ángels, Barcelona, Spain
2007 - Video Killed the Painting Star, Museum of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
2007 - In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London
2007 - Tate Britain, London, “Single Shot” commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella and The Film Council, UK
2007 - 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Island
2007 - My Vision, ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany
2007 - Dateline Israel: Recent Photography and Video (working title), The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
2007 - The Last Seduction, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
2006 - In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London
2006 - Inside-Out, Contemporary Artists from Israel, museum MARCO, Vigo, Spain
2006 - Making Journeys, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2006 - Forest Primeval, MOCA (GA), Atlanta, USA
2006 - Spatial Dualism in the Eye of the Camera - Landscape Photography 1945-1963, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel
2006 - Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2006 - Forest Forest Dreaming, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter UK
2006 - Fatamorgana: Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art
2006 - Lanterna Magica, Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Bat-Yam
2005 - Dreams and Trauma - Moving Images and the Promised Lands, House of World Cultures, Berlin
2005 - Camera Sacra, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005 - Etched Voices, Contemporary Artists and the Holocaust, Yad Vashem New Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005 - Citizen, PM Galery & House, London, City Gallery, Leicester, Oriel Davies Gallery Newtown, Powys/Wales, Ormeau Bath Gallery Belfast, Northen Ireland
2004 - Historias, Photo España 2004, Madrid
2004 - Tales of the City, Arte Fiera 2004, Bologna (curated for the British Council by students from the MA Curating course, Goldsmiths College)
2004 - El Jardi'n De Las Delicias, Galeria Guereta, Madrid, Spain
2004 - International, Tirana, Albania
2004 - Tales of the City, British Council, Bologna Fiere, Italy
2003 - Strangers To Ourselves, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone
2003 - Up Close And Personal, Nottingham Castle, UK
2003 - Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
2003 - One Land, California Museum of Photography, California, USA
2003 - Der Berg, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany 2002 - Non-Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M, Germany
2002 - Five One , Fotogalerie, Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany
2001 - Melancholy, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
2001 - Base Metal, Gallery Fine 2, London, UK
2001 - Six International Fototage, Herten, Germany
2000- The Lion Constantiner award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2000- "Warning Shots", Royal Armories Museum, Leeds
2000 - "Don't Worry", Chelsea Westminster Hospital, London
2000- " Moving on up", Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
1998- "Open Studios", Whitechapel Open, London
1997- "Home Ideals", Therbeton St., London
1997- "Para-Site", Gulden Vlies Galerijen, Brussels
1996- John Kobal Award, National Portrait Gallery, London. Touring to the National Gallery
1996- of Edinburgh, Edinburgh; Museum of Film and Photography, Bath and Midland Arts
Center, Birmingham 1996- "Deep Signal", Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and Gasworks Gallery, London
1996- "Lightness & Weight, The Custard Factory, Birmingham
1996- "After the Flood", Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
1995- "Atrium", Atrium Cork Street Gallery, London
1995- "Cabinet Art", Jason & Rhodos Gallery, London
1995- "Selected Young Artists", Bismarck Foundation, Paris
1994- South Bank Photo Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
1993- "British Transport Competition", Mall Gallery, London
1992-"Royan Cedex", France 21eme Salon International de la Recherche Photographique, Zone Gallery, Newcastle
1991- South Bank Photo Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
1990- South Bank Photo Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
1990- Cartier Foundation Prize, ICA Gallery, London


Awards and Residencies
2006 - Big Bang, a film Commissioned by the V&A for the Twillight: Photography in the Magic Hour Exhibition
2006 - Pomegranate , Single Shot ; short film commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella and the Film Council UK
2005 - The Forest, a film commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella
2004 - First Prize winner, Onfuri International, Tirana,Albania
2004 - Commissioned by the Museum of Nottingham Castle to produce sight specific work for the Drwing withLight Exhibition.
2003 -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 at the British Transport Competition, Mall Gallery, London
1990 - Prize winner at the South Bank Annual Show, Royal Festival Hall, London

Collections
Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles
Jewish Museum, New York
Royal Armouries, Leeds
Imperial War Museum, London
UK Government Art Collection
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham
Guggenheim Museum, New York