Oded Balilty (Israel 1979 -)


About

Oded Balilty (b.1979, Jerusalem, Israel) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer.

Oded Balilty was born and raised in Jerusalem, he has been a staff photographer for AP since 2002.
Balilty lives in Tel Aviv and photographs current events and documentary features for AP in Israel, the Palestinian Territories and around the world. His work has been commissioned for editorial assignments by Time Magazine, National Geographic, and many others.

In recent years, Balilty has been working on personal projects focusing on the thin line between photojournalism and fine art. While these two styles appear drastically different, for Balilty, they inform one another. His fine art photography has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Israel and around the world.

Balilty has won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize (2007), World Press Photo (2008, 2007), Picture of the Year International (2014, 2012), Overseas Press Club of America (2013), UNICEF Photo of the Year (2008), National Geographic All Roads Photography Program (2007) and the Sigma Delta Chi Award (2007). His solo exhibitions include: Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (2015), Projex Connect, San Francisco (2014), N&N Amana Gallery, Tel Aviv (2011), Photo Festival, Gijon, Spain (2008), Coalmine Photo Gallery, Zurich (2007, 2005), and the Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2007). Selected group exhibitions include: International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv (2016, 2012), A Road To Nowhere, Ashdod Museum, Israel (2011), and Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem (2008).

Exhibition

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Front, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
2018 White Noise” Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 Oded Balilty: Selected Works, Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, JCC Manhattan, NY, US
2016 Miss Trans Israel, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY, US
2015 Vets, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY, US
2015 Sabra Traces, N&N Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Sabra Traces, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 In Observation, Projex Connect, San Francisco, US
2013 Restraint, N&N Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 Israel, Soviet Style, Russian Photo Forum, Moscow, Russia
2011 Marginal Notes, N&N Amana Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Hide and Seek, Artist House, Jerusalem, Israel
2008 China, Photo Festival, Gijon, Spain
2007 Chernobyl Today, Coalmine photo gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Along the Lines, Lucca Digital Photo Festival, Lucca, Italy
2007 Along the Lines, Ethnography Museum Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2005 Along the Lines, Coalmine photo gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Chernobyl Today, Festival du Scoop, Angers, France
2000 Reflected Reality with artist Anna Shapira, Z.O.A House, Tel Aviv, Israel

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Spaces in Turmoil, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2020 Territory of Tenderness, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Jewish Museum of Basel, Switzerland
2018 N18, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 The Deluge, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod, Israel
2017 Dangerous Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2017 To Draw Freedom, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2014 The Double Exposure Project, Shpilman Institute For Photography, Tel Aviv
2012 International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 A Road to Nowhere, Ashdod Museum, Ashdod, Israel
2008 Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem
2005 Conflict Inherited, joint exhibition of Israeli and Palestinian photographers, War Photos Limited Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2004 AP Jerusalem, VISA Pour L’Image, Perpignan, France