Angelika Sher

Angelika Sher
Born Vilna, Lithuania
Nationality Israeli
Education Bar-Ilan University, the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono, the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Known for photography
Movement Israeli art, Fine Art

Angelika Sher (born 1969) is a photographer living and working in Israel.

About Angelika

Angelika Sher was born in Vilna, Lithuania, and has emigrated on her own to Israel in 1990. She has earned a BA degree in radiography and natural science from Bar-Ilan University, where she has studied from 1991 to 1995. During the years 2002–2005 Sher had studied at the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono, followed by a two-year program at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2007–2008). Angelika Sher is married to Vladimir Lumberg, a musician and a producer of the music band "Jewrhythmics", and a mother of three. She lives and works in Israel.

Career Highlights

Soon after she graduated the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono, where she had met Pesi Girsch, her teacher and mentor, Sher had her first solo exhibition at the Ramat Gan Museum, to be followed by many other solo and group exhibitions. Sher had exhibited her photography series in Israel, in Italy, in Denmark, at the Moscow Biennale , and in the Czech Republic , and a solo exhibition of her work is due to open in New York in January 2015. Sher has also participated ingroup exhibitions, including the Animanix Biennale and the International Photography Festival in Tel Aviv. She had won the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards, Professional, 3rd Place: Fine Art—Conceptual and Constructed. Sher also engaged in photography projects with the Gesher Theater and with mentally-challenged people at Beit Issie Shapiro.

In October 2010 a photograph from her series "Growing Down" has been sold by the Philips De Pury auction house, in a New York Photography auction. In 2014 Kehrer Verlag published a book of her work under the title "Angelika Sher – Series, 2005–2012".[1] Angelika Sher is currently represented by galleries in New York, Tel Aviv, Moscow, and Ljubljana.

Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

References

Esa Epstein "Angelika Sher Series 2005 – 2012"
Kristin Haug "Kinder in Israel: Sie müssen lernen, ihre Angst zu beherrschen" Spigel Online

  1. ↑ http://www.artbooksheidelberg.de/html/detail/en/angelika-sher-978-3-86828-491-1.html
  2. ↑ http://museemagazine.com/culture/art-out/angelika-sher-disturbing-beauty-at-sepia-eye-gallery/

External links

Official Website

Angelika Sher on Amazon – Angelika Sher – Series, 2005–2012 Hardcover – 18 September 2014
Angelika Sher at Haifa Museum of Art
Angelika Sher on Artnet
Angelika Sher on Sepia EYE
Angelika Sher on Zemack Gallery of Art
Angelika Sher on Musee

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