Uri Gershuni is an Israeli photographer and educator
Uri Gershuni was born in Raanana in 1970. He is son of Israeli painter Moshe Gershuni and sculptor and jewelry designer Bianca Eshel Gershuni.
Gershuni graduated from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ’s Photography Department, holding BFA and MFA. He teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and in WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education . He works and lives in Tel Aviv .
He was a photographer for Yedioth Ahronoth from 2003 and 2007. From 2009 he is a photographer for Haaretz .
Uri Gershuni works are in permanent collections of Tel Aviv Museum of Art , Haifa Museum of Art , Israel Museum , Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Shpilman Institute of Photography .
1999 I Have a Gigantic Electricity Bill Too, Haifa Museum of Art , Haifa 2000 Decent Swinishness, line 16 gallery, Tel-Aviv 2000 The Phantom Menace, Hmidrasha art gallery, Beit-Berl 2001 Cruciferae Family, Machanyim art gallery, Machanayim 2005 Dark Ages, sadnaot haomanim gallery, Tel-aviv 2006 Department, Hmidrasha art gallery, Beit-Berl 2007 Yad, Axel Springer, Berlin , Germany 2010 Day and Night, Inga gallery, Tel-aviv 2011 Selective mutism, Tel Aviv Museum of Art , Tel-aviv 2012 Eye Contact, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv 2012 Yesterday's Sun, Solo Exhibition at Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv 2013 Yesterday's Sun, Photography Book #1, Ha'midrasha Photography Gallery, Beit Berl . Curator: Noa Ben-Shalom 2013 Publish, Volume gallery, Berlin, Germany 2015 "Apollo and the Chimney Sweeper", Israel Museum , Jerusalem . Curator: Noam Gal 2015 "Nothing but Darkness", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv 2015 "In the Court of the White Lady", Curated by Aya Lurie, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel. 2015
Lost Scapes, Galerie Voss, Dusseldorf. 2014
Three Chambers, Jaffa, Tel Aviv. Haifa Museum of Art Collection: Dynasties, Haifa Museum of Art Power of Attraction, Rosenfled Gallery, Tel Aviv. Journeys, Israel Museum, Jerusalem . Curator: Kobi Ben Meir Ziz Prints, Ziz Art Space, Tel Aviv. The Double Exposure Project, Shpilman Institute of Photography , Tel Aviv. Curators: Aya Lurie, Orit Bulgaru, Anat Ascher
2013
The first day, 100 years gallery, London Local Testimony 2013, Eretz Israel Museum , Tel Aviv. Curator: Moran Shoub Be My Guest, New Aggaf gallery, Haifa The Wilderness My Brother Wanders, Social Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem. Curator: Eyal Ben Dov What is to Become, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Etty Schwartz The Solitary Body: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Photography, Mact/Cact Museum and Centre for Contemporary Art, Ticino, Switzerland . Knitted Registry, CCA, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ruty Chinsky-Amitay Surface Currents, Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Yham Hameiri Young Artist Awards, Ashdod Museum of Art Time After Time, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Sacred or Sacrilege?, the Open University Gallery, Ra'anana , Curator: Alec Mishory Israel Discount Bank Album No. 16. Local Pulse, Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv. Curators: Orly Hoffman, Arie Berkovich Night Stamp, Beir Ha'ir, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ayelet Bitan Shlonsky Statues, Hachalalit gallery, Tel-Aviv 2012
Negotiation, Art Israel Internet Biennial 2. Curator: Shalom Amira Objects, Spaceship, Tel Aviv. Curator: Daniel Tsal Teachers, Musrara, Jerusalem, Curators: Avi Sabag, Ayelet Hashahar Cohen Random, BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv Different Place, Dana Gallery, Kibutz Yad Mordechai . Curator: Ravit Harari The Time Defined by Human Beings is But a Dream, Musrara, Jerusalem, Curator: Ilanit Konopny Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art: From Astonishment to Disenchantment, Herzelia Museum of Contemporary Art Camera obscura, Space Shuttel, Tel Aviv, Curator: Hila Cohen Schneiderman Remembering Boaz Tal, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv, Curator: Sorin Heller Deep Inside. Dissociations, CACT / MACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Switzerland, Curator: Mario Casanova Culture Club, Kfar-Saba's city gallery, Curator: Hadassa Gorohovski Art on Buildings, Part of the Tel Aviv Artweekend events. Curator: Sagi Rafael The End of the World, Meyuhas gallery, Curator: Galit Semel Black box, photography festival, Tel-aviv
2011
Freedom of Expression – True Colors –London 2011, The Gallery Soho, Cube Gallery, Manchester Human Landscape, Artists' House, Tel Aviv Casino Ayalon, Bezalel Gallery (Salame 60), Tel Aviv Noise, Bealey Melacha, Tel Aviv A Road to Nowhere, Ashdod museum of art, Ashdod The Beauty of Mistake, the Spaceship at Hayarkon 70, Tel Aviv A Piece of Cake, artist's house, Tel-Aviv 2010
Re-location, Chelouche art gallery, Tel-Aviv Be my Guest, Diaghilev, Tel-Aviv Relocation, Tavi art gallery, Tel-Aviv Net Games, Baaley hamelacha gallery, Tel-Aviv Art Couture, Bineth gallery, Tel-Aviv Who is a Predator, Whcreation Living room, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv Sex-sin, Hachalalit gallery, Tel-Aviv Calm before the storm, Winzavod art centre, Moscow , Russia 2009
Self service, Hachalalit gallery, Tel-Aviv Four openings in israeli art, Bezalel-Salame gallery, Tel-Aviv Men. Inga gallery, Tel-Aviv Ethics- Esthetics, artist's house, Tel-Aviv Z-B-A, Gal-on gallery, Tel-aviv Industry, mfa graduates, Hatachana, Tel-Aviv 2008
Eventually we'll die, young israeli art of the 90's, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art , Herzlia Youth, Musrara art gallery, Jerusalem The homes of others, Israel museum, Jerusalem Streetwise, Mishkenot shaananim gallery, Jerusalem The secret viewer, Tmuna gallery, Tel-Aviv 2008
Snapshot, Ramleh city gallery, Ramleh Click....grrrr..., Haifa University Gallery, Haifa Mama's boy, Port-house gallery, Tel-Aviv Flock, Bezalel-Salame gallery, Tel-Aviv
2007
Sleep, Rishon lezion city gallery, Rishon Lezion Closer, D&A gallery, Tel-Aviv Stills, Oranim art institute, Oranim Passion, Haoman, Tel-Aviv Desert generation, Hakibutz gallery, Tel-Aviv My beloved pornography, Artist's house, Tel-Aviv City space, Photorio festival, Rio de jeneiro, Brazil Boys craft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa Sweet 16, Bat Yam museum of art, Bat Yam Public garden, Artist's house, Tel-Aviv It is not Israeli Art, Tmuna gallery, Tel-aviv Portraits, Artneuland gallery, Berlin, Germany 2006
Men, Ramat Gan museum, Ramat Gan After, Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva 2005
Books, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Omanut Haaretz festival, Riding power station, Tel-Aviv 2004
Non stop art, Sadnaot haomanim, Tel-Aviv Reunion, Braverman gallery, Tel-Aviv In those days, Beit Reuven, Tel-Aviv Rose ce'st la vie, Tel-Aviv museum, Tel-Aviv Marshim, Marseille art centre, Marseille, France Portraits, Artspace, Tel-Aviv 2003
Side effect, Hamidrasha gallery, Tel-Aviv Mother, Oranim art gallery, Oranim Home, Haifa University gallery, Haifa
2002
Behind closed doors, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art Fragile line, Um El Fahem art gallery, Umm al-Fahm 2001
Utility furniture, Line 16 gallery, Tel-Aviv Plastic sheet, A.A. Silver gallery, Tel-Aviv Minister of culture prize for young artist, Ramat Gan museum, Ramat Gan 2000
Between the mountain and the sea, Haifa city museum, Haifa 1999
Prologue, Hilton hotel, Tel-Aviv Emerging artists, Sotheby's , Tel-Aviv 1997
Ho mama, Ramat Gan museum of art, Ramat Gan Winter dreamers, Nehama gallery, Tel-Aviv Chosen graduates, Cooper union, New-York, USA 2014 Nehushtan, group exhibition, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv 2014 Horror Movie, group exhibition, the International Photography Festival, Rishon LeZion 2013 Big Yekatherina, solo exhibition of Valery Bikovsky, part of the exhibition Art's Outer Circles, Haifa Museum of Art 2012 Incident Light, solo exhibition of Sasha Flit, Indie Gallery 2011 Hatima Tova, Group Exhibition, Inga gallery, Tel-Aviv 2010 Sofia, Solo Exhibition of Bianca Eshel Gershuni, Inga gallery, Tel-Aviv 1995 Special presidential grant for excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem2000 Minister of education and culture award for young Israeli artist2005 Young photographers award on behalf of Haifa Museum of Art2007 Heskia Hacmun award2012 Israel’s Minister of Culture ‘Art Encouragement’ Award
