SHAI KREMER
b. 1974, Israel
INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION
Julie Saul Gallery - 535 W. 22nd Street, New York, NY
Robert Koch Gallery - 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA
Julie M. Gallery - 10 Bezalel Yafe Street, Tel Aviv, Israel
Julie M. Gallery - 15 Mill Street, Toronto, Canada
Filles du Calvaire - 17, rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, Paris, France
Filles du Calvaire – 20 Boulevard Barthélémy, Brussel, Belgium
EDUCATION
2003-2005 School of Visual Arts, New York. M.F.A - Photography and Related Media.
1998-2002 Camera Obscura School of Arts, Tel Aviv Israel. B.A. - Photography.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Infected Landscape & Fallen Empires - Galerie Filles du Calvaire. Paris, France (Mar 18 / Apr 30)
Infected Landscape - FMoPa. Tampa, USA (May 27 / Jul 17)
2009
Infected Landscape - Houston Center for Photography. Houston, USA
Infected Landscape - Julie M Gallery. Toronto, Canada
Infected Landscape Israel - M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum,. Kaunas, Lithuania
2008
Infected Landscape Israel - Stiftelsen 3,14 Hordaland International Art Gallery. Bergen, Norway
Infected Landscape (Part 2) - During “ART Tel Aviv” , Julie M Gallery. Tel Aviv, Israel
Broken Promised Land - Julie Saul Gallery. New York, USA
Broken Promised Land - Robert Koch Gallery. San Francisco, USA
Infected Landscape Israel - Julie M Gallery. Tel Aviv, Israel
2005
Infected Landscape - SVA Eastside Gallery. New York, USA
2004
Architecture of Terror - Israeli Architects Association. Tel Aviv, Israel
Infected Landscape - Givat Haviva Art Center. Israel
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Exposed: voyeurism, surveillance and the camera – Tate Modern. London, UK (May 28 / Sep 19) - including works by Henri Cartier Bresson, Philip Lorca di Corcia,
Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand, Gary Winogrand, amongst others.
Window - The Israel Museum Jerusalem (Summer 2010 / February 2011)
2009
Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection - SF MoMA. San Francisco (Until Dec. 20).
Walls - Pont de la Machine. Geneva, Switzerland - including work by Larry Towell, Gilles Peress and Henri Cartier Bresson (Until Jan. 31)
Structures, dwellings and buildings - Ashdod Art Museum Tel Aviv, Israel
Point of View - Manshia. Tel Aviv, Israel - including work by Barry Friedlander, Adi Nes, Gilad Ophir amongst others (October)
Stigmata - Red Cross Red Crescent Museum. Geneva, Switzerland - curated by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne including work by Robert Polidori and Pieter Hugo among others (Mar / Jul).
Windows and Mirrors - Julie Saul Gallery. New York, USA - including work by Diane Arbus, Todd Hido, Vik Muniz, Hiroshi Sugimoto among others
Dystopia - Robert Koch Gallery. San Francisco, USA
Constellation - Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery. Roma, Italy - including work by Barry Friedlander, Simcha Shirman, Tsibi Geva, Menashe Kadishman
2008
Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
As Is - Vittoriano Art Museum. Rome, Italy
Reality Check - The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, USA - including work by T. Demand, G. Crewdson, P. Lorca diCorcia, V. Muniz, S. Shore, J. Sternfeld, T. Struth, H. Sugimoto among others.
Panoramic Landscapes - Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Herzliya, Israel
HeartQuake - Museum on the Seam. Jerusalem, Israel - including work by Alfredo Jaar and Anselm Kiefer
2007
Loaded Landscape - Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. Chicago, USA - including work by
Joel Sternfeld, Atta Kim and Simon Norfolk amongst others.
Guangzhou Photo Biennale - Selected by Alain Sayag, Canton, China
Engagement - Contemporary Photography - Israel Museum. Jerusalem, Israel
2006
Local Testimony - In conjunction with the World Press Photo Exhibition. Tel Aviv, Israel
Emerging photographers 2005 - Stockholm. Sweden
Nisui Keylim (Weapon testing) - Tel Aviv, Israel
Infected Landscape - Julie Saul Gallery. New York, USA
Emerging photographers 2005 - Milan, Italy
Disengagement - Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Tel Aviv, Israel
Emerging photographers 2005 - Omotesando Gallery. Tokyo, Japan
2005
Emerging photographers 2005 - Art & Commerce. New York, USA
Focused - Photographic Centre Northwest. Seattle, USA
See what I mean - Visual Arts Gallery. New York, USA
2004
Artic 6 – America Israel Cultural Foundation, University Gallery. Tel Aviv, Israel.
2002
Graduate exhibition - Camera Obscura. Tel Aviv, Israel.
Jewish Identity - Jerusalem Cinematheque. Jerusalem, Israel.
ART FAIRS AND FESTIVALS
2010
AIPAD Photography Show New York – Julie Saul Gallery & Robert Koch Gallery Booths, Park Avenue Armory, New York (Mar 18-21)
2009
Paris Photo - Filles du Calvaire and Robert Koch. Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (Nov. 19-22)
Art Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 - Robert Koch Gallery Booth. Miami, USA (Dec. 2-6)
The Armory Show - Robert Koch Gallery Booth, New York
AIPAD Photography Show New York - Robert Koch Gallery Booth, New York
Art Chicago - Robert Koch Gallery Booth, New York
Nuit Blanche – Montreal, Canada
2008
Pulse, Art Basel Miami 2008 - Julie Saul Gallery. Miami, USA
Impulse, Art Basel Miami 2008 - Julie M Gallery. Miami, USA
Art Chicago - Robert Koch Gallery
AIPAD Photography Show New York - Robert Koch Gallery
Pulse - Julie Saul Gallery. New York, USA
Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles - Photo Folio Review Winner. Arles, France
2007
Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles - Photo Folio Review Laureat. Arles, France
Festival of the Photograph - Charlottesville, USA
2006
Emerging photographers 2005 - Foto Espana. Madrid, Spain
MONOGRAPH
INFECTED LANDSCAPE, Shai Kremer
September 2008 Dewi Lewis Publishing, Manchester UK - Hardcover, 66 plates.
Exhibited during the RENCONTRES PHOTOGRAPHIQUES D'ARLES 2008 as part of the selection of candidates for their Contemporary Book Award.
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Beaux Arts Magazine, One of the 10 Paris Photo selections of the magazine (“Coups de Coeurs”), November issue.
2009 Earth, a book published by teNeues including selected works of nominees and the short listed finalists of the Prix Pictet 2009.
2009 Courrier International March, Paris France
2008 The New York Times, The City December, 7th, New York, USA
2008 Images Magazine, Special Paris Photo Paris, France
2008 Forward, “The Art of War”, ”, New York, USA
2008 Afterimage Magazine an article on the book “INFECTED LANDSCAPE”, New York, USA
2008 Haaretz, Arts Supplement “Gallery”, 2-pages cover review by Dana Gillerman, August 29th 2008
2008 Museum on the Seam HeartQuake - Catalog
2008 The New Yorker, Art review by Vince Aletti, May 12th, 2008
2008 Artis Catalog - Israeli Contemporary Art Week in New York Israeli Artists
2008 Haaretz, Art review by Smadar Sheffi, Feb. 21st, 2008
2007 No Magazine 8-pages article, Oslo, Norway
2007 Afterimage Magazine cover and article, New York, USA
2007 Guangzhou Photo Biennale Catalog, Canton, China
2007 NY Jewish Museum Spring Catalog, New York, USA
2006 New York Time Magazine Aug. 6th - Bernard Henri Levy : My Views of Israel
2006 Artwalk NY Auction Catalog, New York
2005 Peek 2006, Art & Commerce Publications, New York, USA
2004 Artic 6 Catalog, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Ellul Art Auction Catalog, Tel Aviv, Israel
AWARDS
2009 Henri Cartier Bresson Award - Runner up
2009 Lucie International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention
2008 Rencontres Photographiques D’Arles, PhotoFolio Review Prize
2008 NYFA (New York Foundation of the Arts) Artist’s Fellowship in Photography
2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize 2007, Runner-up
2007 Rencontres Photographiques D’Arles, PhotoFolio Review Prize
2007 Santa Fe Center for Photography, 2007 Prize nominee
2007 HSBC Fondation pour la Photographie, amongst the 2007 Prize fifteen nominates
2007 Israel Pais Grant for the Art and Culture, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Local Testimony, conjunct show with World Press Photo, 1st Price in Landscape
2005 Topographic Originals, Dean Award from the SVA Photography Department
2005 America - Israel Cultural Foundation, MFA Studies Grant
2004 America - Israel Cultural Foundation, MFA Studies Grant
2002 America - Israel Cultural Foundation, BA Accomplishment Grant
MUSEUMS COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
SF MoMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, CA
Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, TX
Museum of Contemporary Photography. Chicago, IL
Israel Museum. Jerusalem, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Tel Aviv, Israel
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Herzliya, Israel
Museum on the Seam. Jerusalem, Israel
Chapman Museum. New York, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Brunswick, ME
Rose Museum at Brandeis University. Waltham, MA
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA