Born in Hod Hasharon, Israel 1973
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
2001 – Graduate (cum laude), Department of Photography, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv
2008 – MFA Program, Bard College, New York
One-Person Exhibitions
2003 – Getaways, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2005 – Earth Works, Haifa Museum of Art, curator: Yehudit Matzkel (cat.)
2007 – Midnight Frost, Ha-Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Yaniv Shapira (cat.)
2010 – Regarding History, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 – Immersion, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Ravit Harari (cat.)
2013 – Plagiarism and Revolutions, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Ravit Harari
2013 – The Whole Truth, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva
2014 – Speaking Generally, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 – Moving away from something he stares at, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, curator: Nili Goren (cat.)
2017 – Continents and Faces, The Herzliya artists residence, curator: Ran Kasmy-Ilan (cat.)
2017 - Hindsight, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary art, Curator: Aya Lurie (cat.)
2019 - Three Inward heads, Solo Show at the Mishkan Museum of art, Ein-Harod, Curators: Yaniv Shapira & Tal Gelfer (cat.)
Duo Exhibitions
2008 – Dialogue,Yair Barak & Ohad Matalon, HaMidrasha Gallery, Beit-Berl College
2010 – All those wonderful places, Yair Braak & Orit Raff, Tivon Art Gallery, curator: Taly Cohen Garbuz
2017 – Emek Refaim, Yair Barak & Netta Lieber Sheffer, The Lobby art space,Tel-Aviv
2018 – Hand Stand, Yair Barak & Matan Oren, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem curator: Hadas Amster
Selected Group Exhibitions
2001 – Dwelling Unit, The Architect’s House Gallery, Jaffa, curator: Shelly Cohen (cat.)
2003 – Young Israeli Art: the Jacques and Eugenie O’Hana Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, curator: Ellen Ginton (cat.)
2005 – Separation, The Architect’s House Gallery, Jaffa, curator: Shelly Cohen (cat.)
2006 – Present Now, Turbine Hall, Reading Power Station, Tel Aviv, curator: Tal Ben-Zvi
2007 – Explosive, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, curator: Dalia Levin
2007 – Engagement, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Nissan Perez
2007 – Water in Art and Life, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Hagit Alon
2007 –The Other Sea, The Jerusalem Artists’ House, curators: Ktzia Alon and Dalia Markowitz
2009 – In the Same Breath, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Yael Yudkovik
2009 – Israeli Photography, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, curator: Nirith Nelson
2009 – Tel Aviv Time 2009, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, curator: Nili Goren (cat.)
2009 – Explosion: Contemporary Israeli Art, Free Studios, Geneva, curator: Keren Bar Gil
2009 – My Camp, Dolinger Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Liav Mizrahi
2010 – Orozco Was Here, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Ruth Direktor
2010 – Body of Evidence, Mika Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Liav Mizrahi
2012 – Making Room: Contemporary Israeli Photography from the Museum Collection, Tel Aviv museum of Art, curator: Nili Goren (cat.)
2012 – Black Box, International Photography Festival, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv, curator: Rami Maymon
2013 – New Directions 2, Leumi Bet Mani House, Tel Aviv, curator: Smadar Sheffi
2013 – Winners of the Ministry of Culture and Sport 2012 Prizes for Art, Design and Curatorship, Ashdod Museum of Art Monart Centre
2014 – Tabula Rasa: Variations on White Trapeze, Kupferman’s House, Kibbutz Lochamei Ha-Getaot, curator: Irit Carmon Popper
2014 – Spolia, Haifa Museum of art, curator: Orit Bulgaro
2014 – Under Erasure, Tel Aviv Museum of art, Curator: Irith Hadar (cat.)
2015 - Dad, Dad at P8 gallery, curator: Adi Shimoni
2016 - Vacuum, the International photography festival, Jaffa curators: Etti Shcwarts and Rea Ben-David
2017 - What goes around, comes around, Shechter Gallery, Curator: Shira Friedman (cat.)
2018 - Olrich, Photopoetica, Musrara college Gallery, curator: Ayellet Hashahar Cohen
2018 - Tikva (Hope), at Ankori studio, Jaffa, curator: Yehezkel Lazarov
2018 - Garment District Arts Festival, New York, USA
2018 - Blue Hour, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, CH
2019 - Sculpturing a Building, Atelier Shemi, Kibutz Cabri, Curators: Smadar Schindler & omer Frank
2019 - First person, singular, Ashdod Museum of art, Curators: Yuval Beaton, Roni Cohen-Binyamini (cat.)
2019 - #FromwhereIstand, three photographers at Winston Wächter gallery, Seatle, USA. Curator: Arit gordon
2020 - Echos, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt
2022 - Signs, Ein hod Gallery. Curator: Nir Harmat
2022 - All Theory is Gray, but the Tree of Life Springs Ever Green, Tel Aviv Museum of art, Curator: Doron Rabina
Grants & Awards
2001 – Sharett Scholarship, America–Israel Cultural Foundation
2002 – Sharett Scholarship, America–Israel Cultural Foundation
2009 – Artist-Teacher Scholarship, Ministry of Culture and Sport
2012 – Ministry of Culture and Sport Art Encouragement Award
2013 – Israel National Lottery Council Support for The Whole Truth, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva
2014 – Israel National Lottery Council support for the Tel Aviv museum show Catalogue
2017 - Israel National Lottery Council support for The Continents & Faces at the Herzliya artists residence
2017 - The Ostrovsky Family fund for experimental film and video for Mirror Therapy
2017 - The Rabinovich fund support for Hindsight at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary art