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| Ohad Meromi - Visual Artist |
| IcExcellence chosen artist since 2002 |
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"What I find so striking and interesting in Meromi's work is his ability to create with simple and minimal means an impressive, total physical presence, one that also amounts to a moving poetic moment."
Yoav Shmueli, Ha'Ir, April 1999
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Ohad Meromi was born in Kibbutz Mizrah, Israel, in 1967. He graduated with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. He has since been showing his work extensively in major museum shows in Israel and representing Israel in international exhibitions. From 1998-2002 he taught installation art and sculpture at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Ohad received his MFA degree from Columbia University School of the Arts in New York.
| Scholarships and Awards |
| 2004 |
Israeli Video Art and Experimental Film Foundation, support for video project |
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| 2002-3 |
Hadassa and Rafael Klachkin award for young artists, AICF
Chosen Artist of Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence):
MFA Studies in Visual Arts Department, Columbia University, USA.
The Israeli Minister of Culture Award
Columbia University, School of the Arts,
Merit Scholarship |
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| 1998 |
The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art |
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| 1992 |
The Mary Fischer Award, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem |
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| 1991 |
Sharet Scholarship Program, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation |
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| Selected Exhibitions: |
| 2005 |
Guild & Greyshkul Gallery, New York |
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| 2004 |
Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| 2002 |
Chilufim, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Kunst Museum Bonn, Kunsthalle Dortmund |
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| 2001 |
Heart's Desire, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Helena, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat) |
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| 2000 |
Ladies and Gentlemen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Israel, Center of Contemporary Art, Siena (cat)
The Israeli Pavilion The First International Art Biennale, Buenos Aires (cat) |
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| 1999 |
Villa#3, The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat)
Not to Be Looked At, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat) |
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| 1998 |
Classrooms, Spring Gallery, Philadelphia PA
Villa#2, Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain,
Region Languedoc-Roussillon, France |
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| 1997 |
Humanism 2020, 4th Sculpture Biennale, Ein Hod (cat) |
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| 1996 |
The Didactic Exhibition, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| 1995 |
Joint, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat) |
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Meromi's recent video project, "Cyclops," (opposite) is an adaptation of Euripides' classic play. For this video he created set and costume designs, and together with a group of friends and actors choreographed a spectacle charged with sexual and political tensions. |
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The Boy from South Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Exhibition at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, 2001 |
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Moon Colony, Still from
Video, 2003 |
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IcExcellence is supporting Ohad in tailor-made artistic programs, and providing special career advancement consulting.
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"The most prominent work in the exhibition is Ohad Meromi's....Meromi is an artist whose works maintain a dialogue with art, architecture and design, from a utopian, alienated and ironic perspective....Meromi's works have always projected a generous measure of intelligence and discernment, coupled with a subtle sense of humor, or rather, irony."
Ruti Direktor, Ha'Ir, July 2000,
Summer Group Exhibition, Dvir Gallery
"...Ohad produced one of the most compelling, intuitive, strange and poetic video "things" that I've seen an MFA produce in years....Ohad's artistic risk taking has a tremendous influence on the students in the program and I hope that they learn from his drive, discipline and ability to constantly challenge himself."
Jon Kessler, Head of the Visual Arts Department,
Columbia University, May 2003
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