| BIO |
Zohar Kfir is a video
artist whose work includes experimental video, interactive art,
net.art and writing.
She holds a BFA in Digital Media from Camera Obscura School of Arts
in Tel Aviv and a MPS Degree from
the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. She is now completing her MFA
in Open
Media at Concordia University in Montréal.
Zohar has shown her video works in galleries and video festivals
in
Israel, Europe and USA, including Transmediale [2003-2004];
Vad Festival, NYUFF, FACT Liverpool;
ICA Center for the arts in
Boston; Makor Gallery in NYC; the Jerusalem Film Festival; and
56th Oberhausen Film Festival.
North American
Distribution Groupe Intervention Video [http://www.givideo.org]
contact at zzee dot net
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| EDUCATION |
Concordia University 2008- 2011
MFA
Programme in Studio Arts [Open Media]
New York University 2000-2002
MPS Interactive Telecommunications Program [ITP]
Camera Obscura School of Art
Tel Aviv 1996-2000
BFA Department of Digital Media
Camera Obscura School of Art
Tel Aviv 1995-1996
Department of Film
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| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
2010
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Berlin
ETC
DVD: Experimental
Television Center 1969-2009
Drunken Boat DB 12 (drunkenboat.com)
Media City Fillm Festival Windsor,
Ontario
Queer City Cinema Festival Regina,
Saskatchewan
Lancement des Nouveautés GIV,
Masion de la culture Mt-Royal
Leonard & Bina
Ellen Art Gallery Montreal
Oberhausen 56th International
Short Film Festival International
competition
FIFA 28th International festival of film
on Art Montreal (Curated by
Nicole Gingras)
Articule Gallery Who's
who Montreal
Inga Gallery Tel
Aviv (Curated
by Sandra Weil)
Alfred State University Digital Media and Animation
Gallery NY
2009
Drunken Boat DB 11 (drunkenboat.com)
Page Turner Festival Drunken Boat NYC
Art
In General NYC, The
Mobile Archive
CEPA Gallery Buffalo
NY
DOCVA MIlan,
Italy The Mobile
Archive
2008
17 Days
Richmond Center Galleries
Skuc Gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Mobile Archive
Maribor Art Gallery Slovenia, The Mobile Archive
Universita luav di Venezia Italy, The Mobile Archive
Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, The Mobile Archive
Newbury Gallery Glasgow School of Art, The Mobile Archive
2007
Jerusalem Film Festival Wolgin
Competition
Makor Gallery Artis07 NYC
Kunstverein Hamburg, The Mobile Archive
WYSPA Institute of Art Gdansk, Poland, The Mobile
Archive
2006
Issue Project Room Coma
érotique curated by Caspar Stracke NY
3rd Ward [BAPlab] Video
program curator Brooklyn,
NY
Office Ops Bushwick Art Projects Video
program curator
Inga Gallery [Hissin House] Tel Aviv
Digital Art Lab The Archive Video
program Curator,
Israel
2005
Office Ops [BAP] Video
program curator
Observatori 6th edition Valencia, Spain [part
of no-org.net]
The Upgrade International, Eyebeam [part of
no-org.net], New York
netartreview.net ::NET.TEN:: Online Selections
VAD Festival Girona Spain
Dumbo Arts Festival Video_DUMBO
2004
Makor Gallery NYC
Akabank center for culture and arts Art04 Istanbul
No-org.net video/net/art Online exhibition
VideoZone2 Tel Aviv Cinemateque
Transmediale04 Berlin
2003
ORB
Remote Copenhagen
Ubersee Museum Citizooms Bremen Germay
VAD Festival Girona Spain
Batofar Paris
Paris Underground Film Festival
B.Berlin Festival
FACT Liverpool
Galapagos Oclarious NYC
City scape 03 Rotterdam NL
NY Underground Film Festival
Transmediale03 Berlin
2002
Smack Mellon Gallery Mir 2, Group exhibition
NYC
ICA Center for the Arts Group exhibition Boston
Video Zone Video Biennial, Digital Art Lab,
Israel
V scape Tel Aviv Cinemateque
L.A Free Waves LA
Wax Perfomance Space NY
2000
Outer Limits VideoLounge
Group exhibition NYC
Media@terra 2000 Symposium for digital art and culture
Greece
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|
RESIDENCIES, AWARDS & REVIEWS|
Artists Space Featured
artist of the month http://afonline.artistsspace.org/ November 2007
Experimental
TV Center Residency Program/ Owego,
NY October 2007
Experimental TV Center Residency Program/ Owego,
NY December 2006
Experimental TV Center Residency Program/ Owego,
NY November 2005
Experimental TV Center Residency Program/ Owego,
NY February 2005
Experimental TV Center Residency Program/ Owego,
NY March 2004
Haaretz/ Gallery section/ by
Uzi Tsur- Closing one eye, on Silent Mess at Inga Gallery
13/3/2010
Ynet Culture Entertainment
section By Tali Cohen-Garbuz-The house of my dreams 4/17/2006
Haaretz Gallery section By Smadar Sheffi- China
is our home 4/27/2006
netartreview.net ::NET.TEN:: Online Selections by
Annie Abrahams May 2005
No-org.net video/net/art July 2004
Haaretz Gallery section By Smadar Sheffi- In the
spirit of the industry 8/17/2000
Hysteria Anthology
of Poetry, Prose, and Visual Art 2003
Dean’s Travel Grant FOFA Concordia University 2010
American - Israeli Cultural Foundation 1999