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| Yehudit Sasportas - Visual Artist |
| IcExcellence chosen artist since 2003 |
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"Sasportas sells 'secrets' encoded within a beautiful cacophony. Nothing is revealed. Yet we receive an excellent, complex, handsome work that puts all this complexity on trial."
Sarah Brightberg-Semel, Studio, 2000
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Born in 1969 in Ashdod, Yehudit Sasportas received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Bezalel Academy of Art
and Design, Jerusalem, in 1993. That year, she continued her studies in the Sculpture Department of the Cooper Union Institute, New York. In 1999, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Bezalel, in collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sasportas lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Yehudit Sasportas was chosen to represent the State of Israel at one of the most prestigious events in the art world: The Biennale in Venice in 2007.
| Residencies: |
| 2004 |
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien , 2004-2005, Berlin, Germany |
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| 2003 |
Binz 39, Nairs, Switzerland |
| Solo Exhibitions: |
| 2008 |
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv |
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| 2007 |
"Guardians of the Threshold", The Israeli Pavilion, The 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale |
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| 2006 |
"The Guardian of the Pearl's Shadow", St. Lukas Gallery, Brussel |
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| 2005 |
"The Cave Light", Leonhardi Museum, Dresden
"The Pomegranate Orchard", Galerie
EIGEN+ART, Berlim |
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| 2004 |
"Locher", Müllerhaus, Literatur und Sprache, Lenzburg, Switzerland
"Guardian of the Pearl's Shadow" Part 2. Robert Tilton Gallery, Los Angles, USA
"Guardian of the Pearl's Shadow" Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Robert Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
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| 2003 |
Eigen + Art, Leipzig |
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| 2002 |
Berkley Museum of Art, Matrix, San Francisco |
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| 2001 |
"How did it ever come so far...,"
Gallery Eigen + Art, Berlin |
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| 2001 |
"The Carpenter and the Seamstress 2," Deitch
Projects, NY |
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| 2000 |
"The Carpenter and the Seamstress," Tel Aviv
Museum of Art |
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| 1999 |
"PVC," Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| 1996 |
"Trash-Can Scale," Work '95-'96, Janco Dada
Museum, Ein Hod, Curator: Yona Fischer |
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| Fellowships and Prizes: |
| 2003 |
Chosen Artist of Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence) |
| 2001 |
Arthur Goldreich Foundation, Bezalel Academy
of Art, Jerusalem |
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| 1999 |
Nathan Gotesdiener, Tel Aviv Museum |
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| 1998-1994 |
AICF Helena Rubinstein Award
for Sculpture |
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| 1997 |
Wolf Foundation, Anselm Kiefer Prize, Germany |
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| 1996 |
Kadishman Prize for Sculpture, Israel - America
Fund for Culture |
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| 1996 |
Young Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture
and Education |
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| 1993 |
Herzliya Museum - Roman Steinmann Prize
for Sculpture |
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| 1993 |
Ehud Elhanani Prize, Art Department, Bezalel |
For more information please visit: www.sommergallery.com
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IcExcellence is supporting Yehudit in tailor-made artistic programs, and providing special career advancement consulting.
Ink on Paper, new works from Berlin:
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Guardians of the Threshold, 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy, 2007
Yehudit was chosen to represent Israel at the 2007 Venice Biennale with her large-scale installation Guardians of the Threshold.
Here she uses a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, and architecture,
to transform the concrete modernist three-story building of the Israeli Pavilion into a virtual fantasy space, blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior.
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"With a strong on going resonance, Sasportas successfully creates her own rich language and initiates a real magic upon the viewer. This exhibition leaves an after taste which continues to reveal flavors of berries, and exposes new layers, long after one leaves the exhibition space."
Time Out - Tel Aviv, July 2007
"Over the past two years, Sasportas has developed a sophisticated sign system in which autobiographical material is crossbred with analytical minimalist structures. The results are drawings, paintings and installations that function like psychological spaces the viewer can enter into both mentally and physically."
Deutsche Bank, Art Magazine, August 2006
"To my mind what makes Sasportas so compelling is her grappling as an artist with all these issues...It is her searching beyond borders and boundaries- both personal and otherwise- that lends complexity and gravitas to her efforts."
Samuel Klein, Secrets of the Forests and River, Jewish Quarterly, Spring 2006
"The stunning works of Yehudit Sasportas also stand out at the exhibition...Sasportas speaks of beauty and illusion, and is not afraid to create works inside the trap that conceals the artificial 'beauty,' as a kind of musing on still life in art."
Smadar Sheffi, Haaretz, 1998
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