Tamar Hirschfeld, b.1984, Jerusalem
An entitled naturalist, spiritual foodie, clueless bombshell, a rude tourist, Tamar Hirschfeld takes on different characters that highlight social power relations. Hirschfeld is a multidisciplinary artist working in film, sculpture, video-performance, sound and painting. In her practice she uses extreme, hackneyed representations of religion, nationality, gender and race from our cultural zeitgeist. Often taking on the guise of the fool or the scapegoat, her grotesquely provocative personas serve as a crude mirror of social stereotypes and injustice.
Her work has been shown in leading venues such as FIAC Paris, FID Marseille, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, CCA Tel Aviv, Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Art and On the Seem Museum Jerusalem, among others. Her solo show “Neuland” in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art was one of the most visited shows of 2019 in Israel.
She won several grants and prizes, including The Outset Contemporary Art Fund Grant, The Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for a Young video artist, “CROUS” french embassy grant and CCA Tel Aviv grant for experimental films and video art.
Hirschfeld attended the “Le Fresnoy - studio national”, an audiovisual research center in Lille, France, for a two-year residency program. She is currently showing at Musée des Beaux Arts, Marseille, a series of glass and sound sculptures make at residency at CIRVA, The International Glass and Visual Arts Research Centre, Marseille.
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b.1984, Jerusalem, Palestine
Selected Exhibitions and screenings
2023 - Grillée, Solo Exhibition, Musée des Beaux Arts, Marseille, France
2021 – Orifice of Pits, Two men show with Orr Herz, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 – Baked Goods, Performance in collaboration with De Spirit Performing Arts School, Lilach Pnina Livne institute, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020 – Pereh, Set Design for Noa Sador Company, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020 – Parvé, Solo Exhibition, Curated by Meital Avraham, Third Floor on the Left gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 – Neuland, Solo Exhibition at The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
2019 – Screening, Next Generation competition, Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival
2017 – L’institut de Mon Arab, Panorama 17, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France.
2017 – Screening, Official competition, Festival Côté Court, Pantin, France
2017 – Contemporary Art of Israel, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
2016 – Screening, FIDMarseille — Marseille's International Film Festival, Marseille, France
2016 – Screening, ‘João Pedro Rodrigues: Sélection des films du Fresnoy’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2016 – Screening, ‘Hors les Murs’, Fiac, Paris, France
2015 – ‘Orient Express’, Amour Gallery, Collectif HAB.B, Paris, France
2014 – ‘Recalculating Route’, 4 Mediations Biennale, Poznan 2014, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
2014 – ‘For a Free Circulation of Desires’, the 27th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Friche de la belle de Mai, Marseille, France
2013 – ‘The Red South’, solo show at Dana Gallery, Kibbutz Yad-Mordechai, Israel
2013 – ‘Rising Star’, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
2013 – ‘ETH[N]ICS’, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 – Screening, ExoticA, CCA: Center of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 – Screening, The 10th International Women's Film Festival, Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, Israel
2013 – Screening, the Rotterdam VHS festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2013 – ‘Goods’, Bat Yam Museum, Bat Yam, Israel
2013 – ‘Iconophilia’, Institute Notre Dame, Jerusalem, Israel
2012 – ‘Kongo’, Ha-Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 – ‘Break & Repair’, Nuzhaa Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2012 – ‘Sigh of Relief’, Ashdot Yaacov Museum, Israel
2011 – ‘Produits Dérivés’, La Zonmé Gallery, Nice, France.
2010 – ‘SOLD’, ‘La non Maison’ gallery, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2009 – ‘Feast your Eyes’, Darom Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 – ‘Equal and Less Equal’, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2008 – ‘Overture’, Artists workshops, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 – Screening, ‘VideoZone 3’, CCA: Center of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Scholarships, prizes and residencies
2020-on going – Residency at CIRVA - International Glass and Visual Arts Research Centre, Marseille, France
2019 – Residency at Outset Studiomakers Mapu Street, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 – Residency at Camp SoLong, Portland, Maine, USA
2016 – The Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for a Young Artist in the field of video art
2013 – Funds recipient, the Fund for Video Srt and Experimental Cinema, CCA: Center of Contemporary Art
2013 – ‘Institute of Investigative Living’, a workshop with Andrea Zittel and James Trainor, A-Z west, California, USA
2012 – ‘Home Made Teasers’, as part of the performance group of Spartacus Chatwynd, for Performa festival at The New Museum, NYC
2012 – Excellence scholarship, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2009 – ‘CROUS’ Scholarship, the French Embassy scholarship for French studies, Besancon, France
2008 – ‘Bank Leumi Prize of Excellence’ for Exceptional Project, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Teaching
2019 – Minshar School of art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022 – Guest Lecture, Animist cours by Roee Rosen, Online
2021 – Guest lecture at Video Cours, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Isreal
2020 – Video Workshop, Shenkar college of Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020 – Jury, Ha-Midrasha Art School, Kfar Sabah, Israel
2020 – Basis Art School, Herzelia, Israel
2019 – Minshar School of art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 – Teacher Assistance, Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Collections
Haaretz Newspaper collection, Burger Collection; Rosenblatt Family collection; Leumi Bank Collection; Givon Collection; Gordon Gallery Collection; Serge Tirosh Collection; private collections
Education
2011-2013 – MFA, graduated with high honors, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010-2011 – École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts à la Villa Arson, Nice, France
2003-2008 – BFA, graduated with honors, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 – student exchange programme, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
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