EDUCATION
2013-2015
MFA, Studio Art, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
2006-2010
BFA cum laude, Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2009
Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Painting, Providence, RI
SOLO / TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2021
The Fabulous 2050s, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
2020
Double Isolation Room (as part of the show "Closed/Open/Closed"), Hamiffal, Jerusalem
2019
Transcender, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018
Boys “R” Girls, Supermarket Independent Art Fair 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
2017
Slowland, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem (with Bianca Eshel Gershuni)
2014
Separation, Glassbox Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013
Tsunami of Spirits, Gallery 1328, Santa Barbara, CA (with Emily C. Thomas)
2012
Limbo World, Mazeh 9, Tel Aviv, Israel (with Abigail Zoe Sarnat)
2010
The Rise & Fall of Colorful Tragedies, Jaffa Port, Jaffa (with Noga Inbar)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2021
TRANSITIONS festival, Berlin (August 2021)
2020
Dissidents // The Fountain Group Exhibition #1, Rotchild 9, Tel AvivThe
Story of Pesach, A tribute to artist Pesach Slabosky, Barbur & Koresh 14 Galleries, Jerusalem
BIDUD, Hansen House, Jerusalem
2019
Hotel Utopia, Lighthouse (by Brown Hotels), Tel Aviv
2018
The Magic Kingdom, Bet Uri & Rami Nehushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov Meuhad
Plenty, MoBY: Museum of Bat Yam, Bat-Yam
Benefit EQCA, Collaboration with Equality California, Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Herhistory of the Artist, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Solution to the Problem, Nulobaz Cooperative Gallery, Tel Aviv
Hall of Fame, Hakaron Theater, International Puppet Theater Festival, Jerusalem
Expanded Visions, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art, New York, NY
Censorship, AZA13 Gallery, Jaffa
ManUp!, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
The Vehicle (Solo Dolo 6 Series) Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Night Light Festival #3, Tel Aviv
Magnificent Obsession (AKA Handyman), The Broad Museum, Los Angeles (with Mutant Salon)
2016
No Body Holy, Robertson Gym, UC Santa Barbara
89 PLUS: Filter Bubble, Luma Westbau Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
Love is Love, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
The Wholesome Performer in the Woods, Watermill Center, Watermill, NY
Mystical Absolutes, UCSB MFA Thesis Show, AD&A Museum”, Santa Barbara, CA
UCFZ, Gone Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2014
A Wicked Problem, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
So Not Solo, Glassbox Gallery, Isla Vista, CA
CELEBRACIóN, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX
Spectacular Subdivision, Monte Vista Projects at High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA
2013
In the Land of Well Manners, BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv
Full Gas in Neutral, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011
Conjuration of Summer Dance Party (Guided Tours #6), Dungeons of Production, Berlin
Fresh Paint" Art Fair, the Botanical Gardens, Tel Aviv
2010
The Great Wizard of No Man's Land, Bezalel BFA thesis show, Jerusalem
Scared Crow (as part of “Secret Art” exhibition) Bet Mani, Tel Aviv
Funny & Serious, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2007
To Feel without, to Be Without, Zik Gallery, Jerusalem
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2021
Artis grant
2020
Miffal Hapais grant for an online artist workshop
2019
The Ostrovsky Family Fund
The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts & Tel Aviv City's Art Department
Loving Art Making Art
2018
ECF European Cultural Foundation Step Travel Grant
2017
The Ilana Elovic-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in the Arts
2013-15
Fulbright Scholarship Award, granted by Israel-U.S.A Educational Foundation (MFA studies)
UCSB Graduate Teaching Assistantship Scholarship
Israel Levitan Fellowship
Block Grant, University of California Santa Barbara, Art Department
2014
UCSB Doctoral Student Travel Grant
2010
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship for Excellence in Art
Bezalel Achievement Award in studies
RESIDENCY
2021
Elsewhere Residency, Greensboro, NC (Forthcoming October-November)
TRANSITIONS - Online Residency with Dagesh Berlin & Asylum Arts
2018
Creative Residency, Earthdance, Plainfield, MA
2015
Watermill Center International Summer Program, Watermill, New York
COLLECTIONS
Elsewhere Museum Collection
David Sassoon Art Collection
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
Yigal Ahuvi, Israel
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2022
Artist talk, Sapir College, Sha'ar Ha'negev
Artist workshop, Thelma Yellin Highschool, Giv'atayim
2021
Artist workshop, University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG), Greensboro, NC
Guest lecturer, Gong.io, Tel Aviv
Artist workshop, Minshar School of Art, Jerusalem
Artist workshop, Musrara School of Art, Jerusalem
2020
Artist talk at Trans Conference, Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem
Artist talk, MFA Art Therapy program, HaMidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl
2019
Felt and Light Artist Workshop, MoBY, Bat Yam
Artist talk and Workshop Instructor, Owls Project (Yanshufim), Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
Guest Lecturer and Workshop Instructor, Installation Studio class, Michal Helfman, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
2015-2016
Art and Education Outreach Coordinator (Fulbright Post Degree Academic Training),
The Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2013-15
Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
PRESS
2020
Elad Rosen, "Concluding a Year of Art - the Exhibitions of the Year by Talking Art Team" (5.1.2020)
2019
Avi Pitchon, "Come, Kinderlach!", Haaretz (29.11.19)
Yuval Saar, "Oree Holban: Empathy, compassion and perhaps even love", Portfolio Magazine (24.11.19)
Roman Stollenwerk, "ManUp! Masculinity in Question. ICOM-CE Digital #14 (5.2.19)
2018
Yael Hershko, “Below the Nose - The Magic Kingdom”, Northern Star (9.11.18)
Reut Barnea, “Alternative Energy: Recommendations for Leisure Time”, Calcalist (18.10.18)
״The Magic Kingdom״, the Green Time: the Kibbutzim Weekly Journal (25.9.18)
Meital Raz, "Plastic Mountains Becoming a Sensual & Spectacular Exhibition", Time Out Tel Aviv
Inbal Cohen Hemmo, "Plenty of Sculpture", Saloona Online Blog (8.7.18)
Smadar Sheffi, “Fresh Paint 10”, The Window online blog (27.4.18)
Sara Meidell, “2018 Supermarket Art Fair”, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden (14.4.18)
Arterritory, “There is No Ceiling Unless You Make One”, Arterittoty.com (1.3.18)
2017
Meital Raz, “ […] Breaking the Stigma of Neve Sha’anan”, Time Out Tel Aviv (14.12.17)
Eitan Buganim, “Pink Borders Between Narcissism and a Dissolving Ego”, Haaretz (13.9.17)
Hagai Ulrich, “Black Swan, White Swan”, Tohu Magazine (6.4.2017)
Uzi Tzur, “Shoes Off Please”, Haaretz (17.3.2017)
Shaul Setter, "Yet Not a Swan Song”, Haaretz (14.3.17)
Zachary Small, “[...] Leslie-Lohman Broadens Its View of Queer Art”, Hyperallergic (11.3.17)
Jonathan Amir, ״This Week’s Recommendation: Slowland״, Erev-Rav (2.3.17)
"Will Barbur Gallery Close Down? Not So Fast", Portfolio Magazine (14.2.17)
Priscilla Frank, “[...] Destroy The Idea That Men Need To ‘Man Up!״, Huffington Post (11.1.17)
2016
Alicia Eller, “Mutating the Broad with Mutant Salon”, Mandatory (30.6.2016)
“No Body Holy”, The Bottom Line UC Santa Barbara (11-17.2.16)
Taing Justin, “50’s Sock-Hop To Take Over Rob Gym”, Daily Nexus, Santa Barbara (11.2.2016)
״KCSB Co-Presents ‘No Body Holy’ – A Queer '50s Prom”, KCSB (29.1.2016)
2015
Cait Munro, “Inside the Watermill Center’s Annual Benefit" artnet news (27.7.15)
Katherin McMahon “From a Giant White Bear to a Dead Fish", Artnews (27.7.2015)
Travis Diehl, ”Harder Stadium”, Mystical Absolutes Online Catalog (May 2015)
Elizabeth Michelman, “The Perils of The Possible”, Artscope Magazine, (Jan-Feb 2015)
2011
Dana Gilerman, "Fresh Paint 4", Saloona Cultural Blog (4.5.2011)
2010
Galia Yahav, "Bezalel Graduation Show", Time Out Tel Aviv, p. 98 (22.7.2010)
MEDIA APPEARANCES
2019
Kan11 TV, Tarbut Agent (minute 35:44) by Kobi Meidan (13.12.19)
2018
Supermarket Art Fair promo (minute 2:07-3:18), created by Andreas Nur (19.9.18)
2016
KCHUNG RADIO in Los Angeles, “Motherfucking Church” hosted by Lolipop (16.10.16)
KCSB-FM 91.9 in Santa Barbara, “No Body Holy Live!” (14.2.16) [PART 1] [PART 2] [PART 3] [PART 4]
2010
Kol-Hakampus 106-FM Radio Tel Aviv, “Buddy in the Holly Land”, hosted by Daniel Yahel
BIBLIOGRAPHY / PUBLICATION
2018
“Supermarket Art Fair 2018 Catalogue”, p. 29. (April 2018)
2016
“Patriotism in Art”, Protest Anthology of “New & Bad” Art Magazine (Summer 2016)
The Santa Barbara Independent, No Body Holy flier (11-17.2.16)
2015
“Mystical Absolutes”, Exhibition Catalogue, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara
2011
Oree Holban, “The Great Pretender”: About The Wizard of Oz and the Transgender Narrative"
2009
"U5 RAPPORT”– Art Magazine (1.4.09)
2007
"To Feel Without To Be Without", Exhibition Catalogue (September 2007)
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