Orit Raff

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Biographical Notes
Born in 1970, Jerusalem, Israel
Resides: New York and Tel Aviv
Education
2000-02 MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY
1998-99 The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York
1994-96 BFA (cum laude), School of Visual Arts, New York
1992-94 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

Solo Exhibitions
2006 "Insatiable", Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, New York
2005 "Insatiable", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2005 "Insatiable", Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art", Tel Aviv
2004 "Hunt-the-Slipper", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2003 "Insatiable", Cutting Edge Project at ARCO'03, Madrid, Spain
2002 "Dynamic Equilibrium", SITE Santa Fe, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2002 "Hunt-the-Slipper", Paula Boettcher Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2002 "Hunt-the-Slipper", The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
2002 "The Pot Calling the Kettle Black", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "Keep in a cool and dry place", Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2002 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
2001 "Hunt-the-Slipper", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 The Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000 "Thirty Times The Length Of My Breath", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Baumgartner Gallery, curator Professor Dr. Rainer Crone, New York, NY
2000 "Innen Zeichnung", The LISTE '00 Young Art Fair Basel with the Paula Bottcher Gallery, Berlin
2000 "Approaching Saturation", Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2000 "Inside Drawing", Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2000 "Innen Zeichnung", Paula Bottcher Gallery, Berlin
1999 "Geometry of Echoes", The Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
1999 Silverstein Gallery, New York
1998 The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 "Dateline Israel: Recent Photography and Video", The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2006 "Glasskultur: What became of Transparence?", Koldo Mitxelena Museum, San Sebastian, Spain
2006 "Bread", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 "White House", Marianne Courville Gallery, Hudson, NY
2006 "Body: Present and Absent", Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Bat-Yam, Israel
2006 "In relation to the Body", The Photography Gallery at the MIDRASHA Academy for the Arts, Beit Berl, Israel
2005 "Traces and Omens, The Noorderlicht Photofestival", Groningen, The Netherlands
2005 "Word Play", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2005 "The Photograph in Question", Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "Staging Reality", Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Fl.
2004 "Time Depot", Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva, Israel
2004 "Burrrr", Gallery W.52nd, New York, NY
2004 "In Focus: Themes in Photography", Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
2004 "Food Clothing and Shelter", Onisaburo Gallery, Interfaith Center of New York, NY
2004 "Beginning Here: 101 Ways", Visual arts Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "Cleanliness", Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "Able was I ere I saw Elba - Palindrome", Heimspiel, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 "Word / Image", Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
2003 "Hot Summer in the City", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Prague Biennale 1 - 2003: "Peripheries Become the Center", Prague
2003 "Photo Album", Bradbury Gallery, Jonesboro, AR
2003 "Gene (sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics", Berkeley Art Museum, CA
2002 "SOFT", Artspace, New Haven
2002 "Multitude", Artists Space, New York, New York
2002 "Recent Acquisitions", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2002 "Marshim-Identitasok", National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2002 "Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics", The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 "Not Landscape: Fragments and Metaphors", SF CameraWork,
2001 San Francisco, CA
2001 "Depicting Absence/Implying Presence", ICA San Jose, San Jose, CA
2001 "RE-LOCATION: on moving", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "New Work: Contemporary Figuration", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Size Matters", Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "Material Abstraction", Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 "A shot in the Head", Lisson Gallery, London
2000 " Fiction/Non-Fiction", Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 "Architectural Constructs in contemporary photography", Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2000 "WHITE", Nikolai Fine Art, curator Irena Popiashvili, New York, NY
2000 "Looking Ahead - Visions of Israel", ICA San Jose, curator Marie Shek, San Jose, CA
2000 "Painting Function: Making It Real", Spaces, curator Saul Ostrow, Cleveland, Ohio
1999 "Open Studios", The International Studio Program, New York
1999 "XMAS", Kent Gallery, New York
1999 "The Wight Biennial UCLA", The New Wight Gallery, Los-Angeles
1999 "Mediterranean Encounters 3", The '99 Croatia Biennial, Israeli curator Mr. Meir Ahronson, Dubrovnik, Croatia
1999 "Thin Air", Julie Saul Gallery, New York
1999 "Summer Salon VI", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
1999 "New In The Nineties II", The Katonah Museum, curators Rick Wester & Nina del Rio, Katonah, New York
1999 "Open Studios", The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, NYC
1998 "The 1st Annual Juried Photography Exhibit", Juror Sandy Skoglund, The Art Student League, Denver, CO
1998 "Under Construction", GEN ART New Visions, curated by Debra Singer, Manager of The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris & Anastasia Aukeman, Director of the Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1997 Visual Arts Gallery, curated by Eve Sonneman, New York
1996 "A Strategy Hinted at: New Conceptual Artists", curated by Anastasia
1996 Aukeman, Artists Space, New York
Awards and Residencies
2005 The Jehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts
2005 MIFAL HAPAIS - Israel National Lottery Council for the Arts Grant
2002 Milton and Sally Avery Scholarship
2001 The Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant in the field of the Visual Arts
1999-00 The International Studio Program, New York
1999 Special Award for Originality & Innovation, The '99 Croatia Biennial, Dubrovnik, Croatia
1997 America Israel Cultural Foundation Fellowship, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1995 Award of Excellence, School of Visual Arts Mentor Program, New York
1994 Student Exchange Scholarship, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1992 Special Presidential Grant for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel