Orit Hofshi (Israel 1959 -)
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About
Orit Hofshi (born in 1959, Kibbutz Matzuva, Israel)
Lives and works in Herzliya, Israel.
Hofshi received her MA in Arts from Leeds University, UK following her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where she majored in painting and printmaking (1986-1990) and her studies at The NB Haifa School of Design (1980-1985).
Orit practice has for many years focused on printmaking, works on paper, installations, and woodcutting as her primary mediator. Concerned with the past/present political realities, Orit imagery projects the perception of one self in relation to natural and manmade topographies and investigates broader personal and social narratives. She has exhibited widely in Israel, Europe and the United States including The Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel; Israel Museum Jerusalem; Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Contemporary Art Collection of the German Bundestag in The Reichstag Building, Berlin, Germany; Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; The Open Museum, Israel; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Swarthmore College, PA, USA; Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina, USA; Philagrafika 2010: “The Graphic Unconscious” PAFA Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA ; International Print Center, New York, USA and The Royal Academy, London, England.
Lives and works in Herzliya, Israel.
Hofshi received her MA in Arts from Leeds University, UK following her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where she majored in painting and printmaking (1986-1990) and her studies at The NB Haifa School of Design (1980-1985).
Orit practice has for many years focused on printmaking, works on paper, installations, and woodcutting as her primary mediator. Concerned with the past/present political realities, Orit imagery projects the perception of one self in relation to natural and manmade topographies and investigates broader personal and social narratives. She has exhibited widely in Israel, Europe and the United States including The Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel; Israel Museum Jerusalem; Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Contemporary Art Collection of the German Bundestag in The Reichstag Building, Berlin, Germany; Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; The Open Museum, Israel; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Swarthmore College, PA, USA; Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina, USA; Philagrafika 2010: “The Graphic Unconscious” PAFA Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA ; International Print Center, New York, USA and The Royal Academy, London, England.
Exhibition
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Pulse, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Hazorea
2019 Standpoint, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 Stranger Comes to Town”, “Crossing” SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018 NY, Cade Tompkins projects.
2017 Crossing, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Slovakia
2017 Innuendo, The Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 Beacon, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Changing Perspectives- The Epoch of Space, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2015 Time out of Mind, Hoch+Partner, Leipzig, Germany
2013 Cessation, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2012 Pharos, Locks gallery, Philadelphia, PA,
2011 Resilience, List gallery, Swarthmore College, PA, (catalogue)
2010 Ephemeral Passage, The Open Museum, Omer Industrial Parks (catalogue)
2009 Ephemeral Passage, The Open Museum, Tefen and Omer Industrial Parks (catalogue)
2009 If the Tread is an Echo, Gallery 39, Tel Aviv
2008 The Road Not Taken, The Print Center, Philadelphia
2008 The Geography of Time, The Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design, Haifa, Israel
2006 The Disenchanted Forest, Anna Ticho House –The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (catalogue), Israel
2006 Datum, traveling show in The Czech Republic
2006 Kairos, Braverman By Art Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Datum Collectanea, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (catalogue), Israel
2000 Golconda Fine Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
2000 Stephan Gang Gallery, New York,US
2000 New Artists’ Community Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
1996 New Artists’ Community Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
1994 479 Gallery, New York, US
1993 Portraits of My People, The Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, US
1991 479 Gallery, Philadelphia, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Paradise, Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI
2020 Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
2019 Even the Trees Bleed”, Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem
2019 Black Smoke, White Smoke, Orit Hofshi And Dror Ben Ami, The Center for contemporary Israeli Art and memorial, Tivon
2018 I to Eye, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2018 E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One”, CCP Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk CT.
2018 Contemporary Local Print” One Exhibition, Three Venues, 65 Artists, The New Gallery Teddy, Jerusalem
2018 I Black I, Ralli Museum, Caesarea.
2018 The Aesthetics of the Inferno Zevulun Gallery, Dept. of Art History, University of Haifa
2018 Surprise: New Acquisitions The Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
2017 In the Body of the Wood, winners of The Jacob Pins Prize for an Israeli Graphic Artist
2017 Corpus, Mens et Anima, SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2017, NY, Cade Tompkins Projects
2016 The Black Art, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 Fall 2016 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, McColl Center for Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2016 All That Remains, The Artists House TLV, Tel Aviv
2015 Not Distant Land, contemporary art collection of the German Bundestag in The Reichstag Building, Berlin, Germany
2015 IMPRESS. Druckgrafische Symposien des BBK LEIPZIG, Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany
2015 Salon Hacubia 2015, The Cube Gallery, Hacubia Place for Art, Jerusalem
2014 Along the Lines of Imagination, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2014 This Is Not a Dream, American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh
2013 Traces V – Beyond Paper, The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 URRA Project, Galeria del Infinito, Recoleta, Buenos Aires
2013 The Philadelphia Story: Contemporary Figurative Art, Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
2013 Souvenirs, featuring works by Leonardo Drew, Hilary Berseth, Pat Steir, Orit Hofshi, Marcus Harvey, Markus Draper, Zhang Xiaoxia, and Robert Rahway Zakanitch, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia,
2012 Encounters in Munch’s Space, Curator: Irit Hadar Curator of Prints and Drawings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2012 Tectonic Faults: Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Bet mani, Tel Aviv
2012 VON KAISERBLAU BIS LUXUSSCHWARZ (From Imperial Blue to de Luxe Black), at Radierverein (etchers’ association), München
2012 Structuring Nature, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery Curator: Andrea Packard, Walton Art Center, AK
2011 New on Paper: Recent Acquisitions in the Prints and Drawings Collection. Curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann, Michael Bromberg Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011 Escape, The Artist House, Tel Aviv
2011 Discount Bank Selected Print Portfolio, The Gottesman Etching Center – Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
2011 Basis– Dialogue Between Cultures, Artists from Arab and Jewish sectors, The House of Culture & Art, Nazareth, Israel
2010 Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious, PAFA Arts Museum, Philadelphia: Kiki Smith, Pepón Osorio , Mark Bradford, Christiane Baumgartner, Qiu Zhijie & Tromarama ( catalog)
2010 Matrika, The Kupferman House, Israel
2010 Caught in the Thicket, IV Biennale for Drawing, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem (catalogue)
2010 Summer Surprises, integrates post-war art from the permanent collection with major recent acquisitions. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia. Curators: Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art & Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art
2010 Von Kaiserblau bis Luxusschwarz, Deutsche Bank, Leipzig , Germany
2009 Images from North Mayo, The Courthouse Gallery, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland
2009 Drawing Violence, 5 Place 4 Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Leipziger Grafikbörse and Sächsisches Druckgrafik Symposion, Leipzig, Germany
2007 Traces III: The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem (catalogue), Israel
2007 One and All, The Jerusalem Artists’ House and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (catalogue), Israel
2007 Desert Generation: 40 Years of Occupation, 1967-2007,” Ha’Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Winners of the Minister of Science, Culture and Sport Prize for Art, 2006, Petach Tikva Museum of Art (catalogue)
2006 Disengagement, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Land Escape: Art Visions Beyond Boundaries, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, US
2005 On the Banks of The Yarkon, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (catalogue), Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 79th International Printmaking Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, US
2005 International Print Center, New York, US
2003 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue), England
2003 International Print Center, New York, US
2003 Kubus Städtische Galerie, Hanover, Germany
2002 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2002 International Print Triennial, “Bridge to the Future,” Graz, Austria
2000 International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland; Nuremberg, Germany (catalogue)
1999 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1998 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1995 Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
1993 International Art Miami, Miami, US
1993 USArtists, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1993 Art Chicago: International Fair of Contemporary and Modern Art, Chicago
1992 USArtists, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
2019 Pulse, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Hazorea
2019 Standpoint, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 Stranger Comes to Town”, “Crossing” SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018 NY, Cade Tompkins projects.
2017 Crossing, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Slovakia
2017 Innuendo, The Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 Beacon, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Changing Perspectives- The Epoch of Space, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2015 Time out of Mind, Hoch+Partner, Leipzig, Germany
2013 Cessation, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2012 Pharos, Locks gallery, Philadelphia, PA,
2011 Resilience, List gallery, Swarthmore College, PA, (catalogue)
2010 Ephemeral Passage, The Open Museum, Omer Industrial Parks (catalogue)
2009 Ephemeral Passage, The Open Museum, Tefen and Omer Industrial Parks (catalogue)
2009 If the Tread is an Echo, Gallery 39, Tel Aviv
2008 The Road Not Taken, The Print Center, Philadelphia
2008 The Geography of Time, The Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design, Haifa, Israel
2006 The Disenchanted Forest, Anna Ticho House –The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (catalogue), Israel
2006 Datum, traveling show in The Czech Republic
2006 Kairos, Braverman By Art Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Datum Collectanea, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (catalogue), Israel
2000 Golconda Fine Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
2000 Stephan Gang Gallery, New York,US
2000 New Artists’ Community Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
1996 New Artists’ Community Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
1994 479 Gallery, New York, US
1993 Portraits of My People, The Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, US
1991 479 Gallery, Philadelphia, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Paradise, Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI
2020 Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
2019 Even the Trees Bleed”, Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem
2019 Black Smoke, White Smoke, Orit Hofshi And Dror Ben Ami, The Center for contemporary Israeli Art and memorial, Tivon
2018 I to Eye, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2018 E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One”, CCP Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk CT.
2018 Contemporary Local Print” One Exhibition, Three Venues, 65 Artists, The New Gallery Teddy, Jerusalem
2018 I Black I, Ralli Museum, Caesarea.
2018 The Aesthetics of the Inferno Zevulun Gallery, Dept. of Art History, University of Haifa
2018 Surprise: New Acquisitions The Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
2017 In the Body of the Wood, winners of The Jacob Pins Prize for an Israeli Graphic Artist
2017 Corpus, Mens et Anima, SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2017, NY, Cade Tompkins Projects
2016 The Black Art, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 Fall 2016 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, McColl Center for Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2016 All That Remains, The Artists House TLV, Tel Aviv
2015 Not Distant Land, contemporary art collection of the German Bundestag in The Reichstag Building, Berlin, Germany
2015 IMPRESS. Druckgrafische Symposien des BBK LEIPZIG, Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany
2015 Salon Hacubia 2015, The Cube Gallery, Hacubia Place for Art, Jerusalem
2014 Along the Lines of Imagination, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2014 This Is Not a Dream, American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh
2013 Traces V – Beyond Paper, The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 URRA Project, Galeria del Infinito, Recoleta, Buenos Aires
2013 The Philadelphia Story: Contemporary Figurative Art, Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
2013 Souvenirs, featuring works by Leonardo Drew, Hilary Berseth, Pat Steir, Orit Hofshi, Marcus Harvey, Markus Draper, Zhang Xiaoxia, and Robert Rahway Zakanitch, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia,
2012 Encounters in Munch’s Space, Curator: Irit Hadar Curator of Prints and Drawings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2012 Tectonic Faults: Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Bet mani, Tel Aviv
2012 VON KAISERBLAU BIS LUXUSSCHWARZ (From Imperial Blue to de Luxe Black), at Radierverein (etchers’ association), München
2012 Structuring Nature, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery Curator: Andrea Packard, Walton Art Center, AK
2011 New on Paper: Recent Acquisitions in the Prints and Drawings Collection. Curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann, Michael Bromberg Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011 Escape, The Artist House, Tel Aviv
2011 Discount Bank Selected Print Portfolio, The Gottesman Etching Center – Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
2011 Basis– Dialogue Between Cultures, Artists from Arab and Jewish sectors, The House of Culture & Art, Nazareth, Israel
2010 Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious, PAFA Arts Museum, Philadelphia: Kiki Smith, Pepón Osorio , Mark Bradford, Christiane Baumgartner, Qiu Zhijie & Tromarama ( catalog)
2010 Matrika, The Kupferman House, Israel
2010 Caught in the Thicket, IV Biennale for Drawing, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem (catalogue)
2010 Summer Surprises, integrates post-war art from the permanent collection with major recent acquisitions. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia. Curators: Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art & Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art
2010 Von Kaiserblau bis Luxusschwarz, Deutsche Bank, Leipzig , Germany
2009 Images from North Mayo, The Courthouse Gallery, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland
2009 Drawing Violence, 5 Place 4 Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Leipziger Grafikbörse and Sächsisches Druckgrafik Symposion, Leipzig, Germany
2007 Traces III: The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem (catalogue), Israel
2007 One and All, The Jerusalem Artists’ House and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (catalogue), Israel
2007 Desert Generation: 40 Years of Occupation, 1967-2007,” Ha’Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Winners of the Minister of Science, Culture and Sport Prize for Art, 2006, Petach Tikva Museum of Art (catalogue)
2006 Disengagement, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Land Escape: Art Visions Beyond Boundaries, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, US
2005 On the Banks of The Yarkon, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (catalogue), Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 79th International Printmaking Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, US
2005 International Print Center, New York, US
2003 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue), England
2003 International Print Center, New York, US
2003 Kubus Städtische Galerie, Hanover, Germany
2002 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2002 International Print Triennial, “Bridge to the Future,” Graz, Austria
2000 International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland; Nuremberg, Germany (catalogue)
1999 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1998 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1995 Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
1993 International Art Miami, Miami, US
1993 USArtists, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1993 Art Chicago: International Fair of Contemporary and Modern Art, Chicago
1992 USArtists, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia