Einat Arif-Galanti

Einat Arif-Galanti
Born	1975 Jerusalem, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Known for	Photographer, Video Artist
Movement	Israeli art

Einat Arif-Galanti (Hebrew: עינת עריף-גלנטי‎; born 1975) is an Israeli visual artist, mainly known for her photographic and video works.

Biography

Arif-Galanti was born in 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. Between the years 1995 and 1998 she studied in the Applied Photography Department of the Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem. She went on to win two consecutive America-Israel Cultural Foundation Photography Scholarships, in 1998 and 1999. In 2002 She studied drawing and painting at The Jerusalem Studio School led by Israel Hershberg, an institution that follows a traditional approach to figurative art. In 2004 she co-founded the Agripas 12 cooperative gallery in Jerusalem, together with her husband Yossi Galanti and other artists.

Arif-Galanti is a lecturer at Pardes High-Art School in Givat Washington. She exhibited 10 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, among them at: The Israel Museum, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Bass Museum of Art, The City Museum of Collegno, Torino, Haifa Museum of Art and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan. In 2013 she received the Pais Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts grant.^[1] Her work is included in various private and public collections. She is and author in Untitled magazine and shares a studio at Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem.^[2]

Grants

• 2013 – Mifal HaPayis – Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts
• 1999 – America-Israel Cultural Foundation Photography Scolarship
• 1998 – America-Israel Cultural Foundation Photography Scolarship

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

• 2015 – Between the Lights, Haifa Museum of Art^[3]
• 2013 – Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, Ticho House, Jerusalem^[4]
• 2013 – Almost, Jerusalem Artists House^[5]
• 2011 – Vanity & Vapor, The Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv^[6]
• 2011 – Repeated Promises, Zilum Ba'am Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 2011 – Collapsing New Buildings, Collaboration with Yossi Galanti, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem
• 2006 – Still Life, 1998–2006, The Wizo Haifa Gallery
• 2006 – Israeli Salon of Photography, Collaboration with Yossi Galanti, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem
• 2006 – Still Alive, Golconda Fine Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 2005 – Vanitas Vanitatum Today, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art^[7]
• 2005 – Death of the Narrative, Collaboration with Yossi Galanti, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem
• 2003 – Land of Loves/Land of the Fathers, Collaboration with Yossi Galanti, Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2016 – The Circle of Life, The Israeli Pavilion, NordArt 2016, Büdelsdorf, Germany (Curator: Carmit Blumensohn) (Future)^[8]
• 2016 – Still/Life, Artcube Gallery, Jerusalem (Curator: Tamar Gispan-Greenberg)
• 2015 – Quest, Benyamini Center, Tel Aviv
• 2015 – Happy Birthday, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Curator: Orna Granot)
• 2014 – Operation, Contemporary Art in the Supermarket, Jerusalem (Curator: Sharon Balaban)
• 2014 – Miami Project, Andrea Meislin Gallery (New York), Miami^[9]
• 2014 – Des Independants, a Decade to Agripas 12, Jerusalem
• 2013 – Traces V – The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel – Beyond Paper, Jerusalem Artists House (Curator: Tal Yahas)
• 2013 – Quarantine, Hansen Art Center, Jerusalem (Curator: Neta Gal-Azmon)
• 2013 – ArTricks, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Curator: Daniella Shalev)
• 2013 – By the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Curator: Shlomit Steinberg)
• 2013 – BYOB – Tel Aviv, Contemporary by Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 2012 – Unnatural, Bass Museum of Art, Miami (Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman)
• 2012 – Public screening at New World Center, Miami Beach
• 2012 – Paris Photo Art Fair, Andrea Meislin Gallery (New York), Paris
• 2012 – Some Other Place, Dana Art Gallery, Yad Mordechai
• 2012 – Cabinets of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Curators: Dalia Levin, Daria Kaufmann, Ghila Limon)
• 2012 – Test Run (Nisui Kelim) #9 Festival, Tel Aviv
• 2012 – Summer Solstice, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
• 2012 – Aipad Photography Show, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
• 2011 – Don't Try, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 2011 – The Gordon Show, Loving Art event, Gordon Street, Tel Aviv
• 2011 – Sim Card, The City Museum of Collegno, Torino
• 2011 – Fresh Paint 4 Art Fair, Tel Aviv
• 2011 – The Beauty of Mistake, Spaceship HaYarkon 70, Tel Aviv (Curators: Keren Bar Gil, Mirav Katri)
• 2011 – Sweat Dreams, Artists Association, Tel Aviv
• 2010 – A window to Reality, Haifa Museum of Art (Curator: Adi Shelach)
• 2010 – Looking In, Looking Out: The Window in Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Curator: Hagit Allon)
• 2010 – Fresh Paint 3 Art Fair, Jaffa
• 2009 – Meal Exhibition, Zilum Ba'am Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 2009 – Between the Personal to Communal, Agnon House, Jerusalem
• 2009 – The Best Frame I Shot In The Last 10 Years, Zilum Ba'am Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 2008 – Manofim – Opening of the Exhibition Season, Agripas 12, Jerusalem
• 2008 – Night Trains, Autumn Salon III, A Place for Art, Tel Aviv
• 2008 – Traces III, The 3rd Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem (Curator: Dalia Manor)
• 2007 – Heara 11 – The Last Comment Art Event, with Sala-Manca Group, Jerusalem
• 2005 – Lights, shortlisted artists exhibition, Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design, Israel
• 2005 – Dialogue with the Classics, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Curator: David Pikielny)
• 2004 – Opening of Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, Collaboration with Yossi Galanti
• 2004 – No Strangers to Paradise, Five Emerging Artists from Israel, Gershman Y Gallery, Philadelphia
• 2003 – Jérusalem à vif (Jerusalem exposed), Passage de Retz, Paris Photo Fair, Paris
• 2003 – Contemporary Israeli Photography, Provincia di Milano, Palazzo Isimbardi, Milan
• 2002 – Food in Art: A Matter of Taste, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Curators: Hagit Alon, Smadar Gafni)
• 2002 – Young Portfolio 2001, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan (Curator: Eikoh Hosoe)
• 2000 – Artic 2, America-Israel Cultural Foundation Show, Ramat-Gan Museum of Israeli Art
• 1999 – Artic 99, America-Israel Cultural Foundation Show, Ramat-Gan Museum of Israeli Art

Publications

• 2016 – Still/Life, Exhibition Catalog, Tamar Gispan-Greenberg, Jerusalem Artists' Studios, ISBN 978-965-7655-078
• 2015 – Happy Birthday, Exhibition Catalog, Orna Granot, Israel Museum, Jerusalem^[10]
• 2014 – The Independents: a decade of Agripas 12, exhibition catalogue, Tamar Gispan Greenberg, Agripas 12, Jerusalem
• 2013 – Quarantine: Forty Days of Seclusion, Exhibition Catalog by Neta Gal-Azmon, Hansen House Center For Design, Media and Technology, Jerusalem^[11]
• 2013 – Beyond Paper, Catalog of Traces V – The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem Artists House^[12]
• 2013 – Almost, exhibition catalog, Jerusalem Artists House
• 2013 – ArTricks, exhibition catalog, Daniela Shalev, Israel Museum
• 2012 – Unnatural, exhibition catalog, Tami Katz-Freiman, Bass Museum of Art^[13]
• 2011 – Sim Card, exhibition catalog, Ben Alfa, The City Museum of Collegno
• 2009 – Between the Personal to Communal, exhibition catalog, Dafna Ichilov, Agnon House
• 2008 – Repeated Promises, exhibition catalog, Zilum Ba'am Gallery
• 2008 – Reshamim III, 3rd Drawing Biennale, catalog, Dalia Manor
• 2005 – Dialogue with the Classics, exhibition catalog, Herzliya Museum
• 2005 – Lights, shortlisted artists exhibition, Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design, Amitai Mendelsohn, Israel Museum
• 2003 – Contemporary Israeli photography: three generations, Prof. Mordechai Omer and Arturo Schwartz, Tel Aviv Museum^[14]
• 2002 – Photography by the Next Generation: Young Portfolio Acquisitions, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
• 2000 – Artic 2, America-Israel Foundation catalogue, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art
• 2000 – 33X33, Jerusalem Artists House, Zvi Tolkovski
• 1999 – Artic 99, America-Israel Foundation catalogue, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art

Public Collections

• Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan^[15]
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

References

1. Grant to Einat Arif-Galanti, 2013, Mifal Hapayis website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
2. Einat Arif-Galanti at the Jerusalem Artists' Studios website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
3. Exhibition Page, Between the Lights by Einat Arif-Galanti, Haifa Museum of Art website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
4. Exhibition Page, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by Einat Arif-Galanti, Israel Museum website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
5. Exhibition Page, Almost by Einat Arif-Galanti, Jerusalem Artists House website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
6. Exhibition Page, Vanity & Vapor by Einat Arif-Galanti, The Heder Gallery website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
7. Exhibition Page, Vanitas Vanitatum Today by Einat Arif-Galanti, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
8. The Artists, NordArt 2016, Retrieved March 6, 2016.
9. Miami Project 2014, Andrea Meislin Gallery website, Retrieved January 21, 2016.
10. Happy Birthday, Online Exhibition Catalog, by Orna Granot, the Israel Museum website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
11. Quarantine: Forty Days of Seclusion, Online Exhibition Catalog by Neta Gal-Azmon, Hansen House Center For Design, Media and Technology, Jerusalem:2013 Retrieved January 6, 2016.
12. Beyond Paper, Online Catalog of Traces V – The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel ,Jerusalem Artists House, by Tal Yahas, Retrieved January 4, 2016.
13. Exhibition Page, Unnatural, curated by Tami Katz-Freiman, Bass Museum of Art website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
14. Exhibition Catalog, Contemporary Israeli Photography: Three Generations by Mordechai Omer, WorldCat record, Retrieved January 2, 2016.
15. 2001 Young Portfolio Acquisitions, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts website, Retrieved January 2, 2016.

External links

• Artist’s website
• Artist’s section in Untitled Magazine
• Einat Arif-Galanti at the Information Center for Israeli Art, Israel Museum
• Einat Arif-Galanti on Artsy
• Einat Arif-Galanti on TheArtLab
• Morning Morning online project of diptychs, collaboration with Nurit Yarden, Curator: Yael Ravid, Erev-Rav art magazine, 2015, Retrieved January 2, 2016.