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
