Sharon Yaari is an Israeli photographer and educator, mostly known for his landscapes, made using traditional film photography technic.
Yaari graduated with BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1994. He received Master of Philosophy from Faculty of Art Design and Technology of Derby University in 2002.
Sharon Yaari teaches in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, serving as Senior Lecturer at the Photography Department from 1994 and Senior Lecturer of master's degree Program from 2002. He is also a lecturer at the Art Department, Faculty of Humanities in Haifa University since 2000.
Yaari's works are in following permanent public collections: Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Harvard University, The Schwartz Art Collection, Boston Business School, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Ella Fontanalls de Cisneros Collection, Progressive Collection, Ohio, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem.
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2016 National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Iris hermona was included as part of his "Red Slide" series (2015).
2014 Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2013 Leap Toward Yourself, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2012 Expectancy, Galleria Martim Janda, Vienna, Austria
2011 Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
2009 Jerusalem Blvd. Sommer Contemporary Art. Tel Aviv
2009 Galleria Martim Janda, Vienna Austria
2006 Hope for long distance photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2003 Dust, Lombard/Freid Fine Art, New York
2002 Lisson Gallery, London
2002 Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2002 Project Room Arco, Madrid, Spain
2002 Drexler University Art Gallery, Philadelphia USA
2001 Last Year, Lombard/Freid Fine Art, New York
2000 Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1999 Color Works, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzlyia
1996 Boxes in the Garden, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Group
2014 Journeys, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2013 Collecting Dust in Contemporary Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2012 Silverstein Annual, Bruce Silverstein gallery, New York City
2012 DB12 Volume 1 - The Dallas Biennial, Dick Higgins Gallery, Dallas USA
2012 Good Night, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2012 The city, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2012 The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Video from Israel, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
2011 A Road to Nowhere, Ashdod Museum of Art
2011 Southern Spirits – Aspects of the Negev in Contemporary Israel Art, The Negev Museum of Art, Beer Sheva
2010 What is the Political, Museum of Bat Yam, Israel
2010 Photographs in conjunction with Traces IV - The Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Ticho House, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
2010 The Ministry of Culture and Sport's 2009 Awards for Art and Design, Herzelia Museum
2010 Shelf Life, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2010 Entanglment, Bezalel Academy Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Looking In, Looking Out: The Window in Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
2010 In Detail, Haifa Museum of Art
2009 Art Tlv 09- The Tel Aviv Biennial, Universal Circus - City Performances
2009 Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London
2009 Time Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2008 Can Art Do More? Art Focus 5, 2008, Pavilion, Jerusalem
2008 Depletion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2008 Eventually We’ll Die – Young Art in Israel of the Nineties, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2008 Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2008 Personal Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel, The American University Museum Washington
2007 Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York and Jewish Museum Berlin
2007 Inside-Out, Contemporary Artists from Israel, MARCO - Museum of contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain.
2007 Engagement, Israeli Photography Now. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2007 The invisible snake show, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2007 Omanut Haaretz, Tel Aviv Old Port
2006 OMAUT. arte in israele 1900-2006 Milano, Palazzo Reale, Italy
2006 Art of Living: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco USA
2005 Beyond Delirious Architecture: Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanels Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL
2005 The New Hebrews, Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin
2005 Such Stuff As Dream Are Made On Chelsea Art Museum, NY
2004 A Point Of View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2004 Behind Faces, Galerie Martin Janda Vienna
2004 Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod
2003 Stranger-The 1st Triennial of Photography, ICP, New-York
2003 Fabula National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, England
2002 Multitude Artists Space, New York
2002 Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
2002 Fragile Line, Um El Pahem Gallery
2001 Aspiration, RIFFE Gallery, Columbus, Ohio and Buenos Aires
1999 Surveying the Landscape, Lombard/Freid Fine Art, New York
1998 Condition Report, Photography in Israel Today, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1998 Habitation, Herzlyia Museum of Art
1997 Sight Seeing – A Topographical Reading: 19th Century British Photography from the Holyland / Contemporary Israeli Photography, Camera Obscura Gallery.
1997 Tel-Aviv; Department of Photography Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1996 Machines for Living :Architecture of Visibility, Columns House, Tel Aviv
Awards
2010 Constantiner Photography Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2009 Creative Encouragement Award, Culture and Sport Ministry
2005 The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize
2004 Janet Gaphin Award, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2000 Recipient of the 2000 Minister of Culture and Science Prize, Israel
1999 Gerard Levi Price, Young Photographer’s Price, Israel Museum
1997 Young Artist Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture
