Yuval Yairi
Yuval Yairi
Yuval Yairi was born in Israel in 1961, and currently lives and works in Jerusalem. He graduated from the visual communications department at WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education in 1988. Between the years 1988-1999 he served as the director of a design studio in Jerusalem, where he produced and directed short films and documentaries. Since 2004 Yairi’s work has been devoted to artistic research and practice, working mainly with photography, drawing and video.
Awards Ministry of Culture award for Visual Arts, 2017
Recipient of Plumas Art Foundation artist grant, 2023
Solo exhibitions
2023 CloudMapping, Fabienne Levy, Lausanne
2019 Cyphers and Cypresses, Fabienne Levy, Lausanne
2016 Surveyor, Epsten Gallery, Kansas City
2016 Surveyor, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2013 LAND, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2011 WORK (The Israel Museum Renewal Project), Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2008 Palaces of Memory, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY
2007 Palaces of Memory, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2005 Forevermore, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2005 Forevermore, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Selected group exhibitions
2024 eArth, Trumpeldor gallery, Ben Gurion university of the Negev
2024 This place - present continuous, Ramot Menashe art gallery
2024 From print to presence, Fabienne Levy, Geneve
2024 Forsaken Zone, Hamiffal, Jerusalem
2024 Splinter from the storm, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem
2024 Transformative boundaries, Fabienne Levy, Lausanne
2023 The twilight zone, Givat Haviva art gallery
2022 Beyond The Gaze, Podbielski Contemporary, Milano
2022 Between the lines, Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne
2022 The Institution, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art
2021 Maisons, Fondation La Ruche-Seydoux, Paris, France
2021 Métamorphoses, LA CHAMBRE D'EAU, Le Favril, France
2020 Feminine Difference, Haifa Museum of Art
2020 Up and down the mountain, The new gallery, Jerusalem
2020 Ministry of Culture Award Winners, Ashdod Art Museum
2020 J20, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2018 Sambation, Jewish Culture Festival, Kraków
2018 Tzurah, Jewish museum of Casale Monferrato
2017 Dangerous Art, Haifa Museum of Art
2017 Slipped (my) mind, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017 Undefined Spaces, Podbielski Contemporary, Berlin
2017 Anonym-X: The End of the Privacy Era / Street View, Haifa Museum of Art
2016 Quest, Tel Hai Museum of Photography
2016 "Vaccum" @ International Photography Festival 2016, Jaffa Port
2016 ABC – Landscape in 3 parts, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 Quest, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv
2015 The Tel-Aviv Transcripts, with Hadas Ophrat, The Lobby - Art Space, Tel-Aviv
2015 Sanctuary, Orlando Museum of Art
2014 “The Benevolent Tree”, The Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery
2013 Collecting Dust, Contemporary Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2012 Wonderland, Chagall Artists House, Haifa
2012 A visual journey through imagination, Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, FLA
2012 Nomansland: Trilogy of Journeys, The Petach Tikva Museum
2011 Roundabout - Face to Face, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
2011 Kept in Memory, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
2011 Life: A user's Manual, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011 New in Photography: Recent Acquisitions, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011 Purity & DangerZemack Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2011 The Four Seasons, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2010 Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
2010 Looking in, Looking out: The window in art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2010 Now we are six, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY
2008 Inside Israel, Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China
2008 Israel is Real, Contemporary photography from Israel, Epsten Gallery, Kansas
2008 Living Together, Ireland, England, Bulgaria, Romania, Armenia, Georgia, Greece
2008 @60.art.israel.world, Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
2008 The homes of others, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2007
2008 Jerusalem, Surface Fractures, The Jerusalem Artist's House, Jerusalem
2007 Contemporary Israeli Photography, San Diego Natural History Museum
2007 Moods and Modes in Israeli Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2007 Art for Aid, Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
2007 Current Visions part 2, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY
2006 Heara 10, Science Museum, Jerusalem
2006 Lanterna Magica, Metaphysical Light in Israeli Photography, Bat-Yam Museum of Art
2006 d.t-minimum time, Qbox Gallery, Athens, Greece
2004 "New Exposures" Recent acquisitions in Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2004 Outside In, Sotheby's, London
Festivals / Residencies
2023 Art for Freedom, Arco Madrid
2022 Observation Point, site specific installation, Jewish Culture Festival, Krakow
2021 Festival Eclectic Campagne(s), The water chamber - le Favril
2019 Comix 3, 59 Rivoli, Paris
2018 We Are One World, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
2018 DocTurku ❤ VAFT, Finland
2018 4th Little Cinema International Festival, Kolkata
2017 ARTB&B – artistic director, Hamiffal, Jerusalem
2017 Meetings, Residency, video and performance festival, Denmark
2016 CologneOff, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
2016 Time is Love, Plateau gallery, Berlin
2015 Winter Stream (video art and short films), Epsten Gallery, Kansas City
2015 Now & After Video art Festival Moscow – guests program
2014 Simultan Festival #10, Timisoara, Romania
Video art and experimental film festival, Tribeca Cinemas, NY
Athens Video Art Festival
Festival of Migrant Films, Ljubljana, Slovenia
AIVA, International video Art festival. Finspång, Sweden
FOKUS 2014 video art festival, Copenhagen
CologneOff X, Berlin & Tel-Aviv
27th Festival Les Instants, Marseille
Artists for freedom, Saakashvili Presidential Library, Tbilisi, Georgia
1984-1988 Visual Arts studies, Wizo-Hadassah, Haifa
1989-1999 Arad-Yairi Studio, Jerusalem - Art Director and Graphic Designer
1999-2004 Documentary and corporate film production, Photography
