biography / bibliography
Aspiration: Toward the Future in the Middle East, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio traveling to: Buenos Aires; Santiago; Havana; Chicago
ADI NES
Born in Kiryat Gat, Israel, 1966
Graduated Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, 1992
Works in Tel-Aviv
EDUCATION
1992
Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1989
Department of Photography, Bezalel
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
The Village, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, May 31–July 28, 2012.
The Village, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, May 17–June 28, 2012.
The Village, Galerie Praz Delavallade, Paris, June 2–July 21, 2012.
Adi Nes,Koffler Center for the Arts, Toronto, May 3–June 2, 2012.
2011
Deposition, Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia, Florence.
2010
Deposition, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome
Deposition, Museum of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia. Traveled to: Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb, Croatia; Istarska sabornica (Istrian Parliament Building), Porec, Opatija, Croatia; Dulcic Masle Pulitika Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
2009
Biblical Stories, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California
2008
Biblical Stories, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Biblical Stories, Galerie Praz Delavallade, Paris, France
Biblical Stories, Light & Sie Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2007
Biblical Stories, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by Mordechai Omer. (Catalogue)
Biblical Stories, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2004
Recent Photographs, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Galerie Praz Delavallde, Paris, France
Between Promise and Possibility: The Photographs of Adi Nes, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California. Curated by Daniell Cornell. (Catalogue)
2003
Constantiner Prize for Photography Show, Adi Nes: Photographs, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. Curated by Nili Goren. (Catalogue)
UQAM Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Recent Photographs, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2002
Adi Nes: Photographs, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Traveled to: The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago. Curated by Toby Kamps. (Brochure)
2001
Adi Nes: Recent Photographs, The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. Curated by Ellen Ginton. (Catalogue)
2000
Adi Nes: Photographs, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv. (Catalogue)
1998
The Soldiers, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam. Curated by Susan Dechert.
1997
To Be Taken Captive, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai. Curated by students of the Culture, Curatorship and Criticism Seminar, Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv.
1996
First Act, Blanche and Romi Shapira Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Curated by Assaf Romano.
1993
Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Nomi Talisman)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012–2013
The Naked Man, Lentos Art Museum Linz, October 18, 2012–February 3, 2013. Traveling to: Ludwig Museum Budapest, Spring 2013.
2012
Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex, The Jewish Museum, New York
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Jews But Were Afraid to Ask, Jewish Museum Hohenems, Austria
Windows to Reality, Israeli Homages to Italian Renaissance Art, University of Israel, Raanana. Curated by Alec Mishory.
Faces of Cain: Representations of the “Others” in Contemporary Art is Israel, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Curated by Haim Maor and his students. (Catalogue)
2011
Human Landscape, Artist House, Tel Aviv. Curated by Daniella Talmor.
Role models – Role Playing, Museum of Modern Art MdM, Salzburg, Germany
Nimrod’s Descendants, Artist House, Jerusalem. Curated by Gideo Ofrat.
Making a Place: Contemporary Israeli Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curated by Nili Goren
Tel Aviv – Jaffa, Academic College of Tel Aviv Jaffa. Curated by Tamar Drezner.
Teror, artists respond, Dershowitz Center Gallery: Industry City, Brooklyn, New York
2010
Rendering, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome
From the collection / on permanent view, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Daily Treasures, Hamidrasha Art College, Beit Berl Academic College, Kalmaniya
In Detail: From the Collection of Arnie Druck, Haifa Museum of Art
2009
Israeli Art Now, Naomi Arin Contemporary Art Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
Recent Acquisitions, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Great Expectations: Contemporary Photography Looks at Today’s Bitter Years, Casino Luxembourg forum d’art contemporain
Fotografie aus Israel, Freundeskreis Kulturbahnhof Eller, Dusseldorf, Germany
Big Spender, 5 Place 4 Art & The Left Bank, Tel Aviv
Ethics/Aesthetics, The Tel Aviv Artists House
Hugging and Wrestling, Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
The Heritage of the Holy Land: Treasures from the Israel Museum of Jerusalem, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Family Traces, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Open Table, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Gallery, Tel Aviv
Last Summer, POV 01 – The Israeli Photography Festival, The Station, Tel Aviv
Ten, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Taarucha, Beit Ha’Am Gallery, Tel Aviv
What is your gender?, WHcreation, Virtual Gallery
2008
Israel@60, The Jewish Museum, Berkley, CA
Between Memory and History: From the Epic to the Everyday, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
Access to Israel, (first part), Museum Judengasse, Frankfurt, Germany
Art of the State: Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Israel, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Eventually We'll Die: Young Art in Israel of the Nineties, Herzlia Museum of Contemporary Art
ITCA 2008 – International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Veletrzni Palace, National Gallery Prague
Unparalleled LunaPark, Tarsat Boulevard, Tel-Aviv
But the righteous shall live by his faith, The Museum of Underground Prisoners in Jerusalem, Art Jerusalem
Weighing and Wanting: Selection from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla
Acting the Part: Photography as Theater, The Vancouver art Gallery, Canada
Access to Israel, (second part), Museum Judengasse, Frankfurt, Germany
As Is: Arte Israeliana Contemporanea, Salone Centrale, Via San Pietro in Carcere, Roma
Projection Programme: Mediterranean Photography, APhF08, Athens Photo Festival, Greece
2007
Engagement: Israeli Photography Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Six Days Plus Forty Years, Petach -Tikva Museum Of Art
Moods and Modes in Israeli Photography, Works from the Collection Gift of Leon and Michaela Constantiner
Expose Life, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Bible Now, Municipal Art Gallery Rehovot, M. Smilansky Cultural Center
2006
Inside-Out: Contemporary Artists from Israel, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Spain
Making Scenes: Stage Photography Since the 1980s, Haifa Museum of Art
Doron: Art and Workers Rights in Israel, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
Into Me / Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Acting the Part: Photography as Theater, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
In Between Places: New art from Israel, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York
Art of Living: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
Recent Acquisitions, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the de Young Museum
Haifa in the Eye of the Camera: The First Half of the 20th Century, Haifa City Museum, Israel
Men, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Beyond Richness, The Uri and Rami Nechushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov Meuchad
Israel: Art and Life, 1906–2006, Palazzo Reale, Milan
Cradle of Christianity, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2005
A Passion for Pictures, North Carolina Museum of Art
Acting Out: Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography, University of Iowa Museum of Art
2004
Common Ground, Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
2002
Corpus Cristi, Hotel de Sully, Paris, traveling to The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2001
Aspiration: Toward the Future in the Middle East, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio traveling to: Buenos Aires; Santiago; Havana; Chicago
Re-thinking: Photographs and Video from Israel, IFA Gallery, Bonn
2000
La Repubblica dell’arte – Israel, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena Photography in Israel: A Changing View, Fotofest 2000, Margolis Gallery, Houston, TX
Time Frame: A Century of Photography in the Land of Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Exposure: Recent Acquisitions from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, O.R.S ltd, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
From Mirror to Memory: One Hundred Years of Photography in the Land of Israel, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa; circulating exhibition in the Forum of Israeli Museums
1999
Recipients of the 1999 Minister of Science, Culture and Sport Prize, Israel painters and Sculptors Association, Tel-Aviv
Old and New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
About Raffi, Nofar Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1998
After Rabin: New Art from Israel, The Jewish Museum, New York
Fou de roi, Ecole de Beux-Arts, Nimes
Condition Report: Photography in Israel Today, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kol Hakavod (Voice of Honor), Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Forum of Israeli Museums
Capturing Reality: 19 Israeli & Palestinian Photographers, The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Serial Number, The Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon; Municipal Gallery, Rehovot
Black Nudes: New Identities, Museum for the Tropics, Amsterdam
1997
The Israelis: Shuka Glotman, Avi Ganor, Adi Nes, Micha Kirshner, Old Railway Station Gallery, Be’er Sheva
To Be Taken Captive, Photography Museum, Tel-Hai Industrial Park
Images of Masculinity, Limbus Gallery, Mishkan Le’omanuyot, Ramat Hasharon
Zvia Noodle: Photographs, Camera Obscura School of Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1996
Israeli Diary, Tel Aviv Cinemathique, Tel-Aviv
An Alternative Dictionary, The Studio in Borochov, Tel-Aviv
Dirty Frame of Mind, group installation by photographers at the Dugit area, Tel-Aviv Port
1994
90-70-90, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv
Export Surplus, Bograshov Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1993
Jewish Gay Life, Recipients of Sandra Jacobs Foundation Prize, Akehurst Gallery, London; Artist House, Jerusalem
Adi Nes and Naomi Talisman, Camera Obscura School of Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
AWARDS
2003
Constantiner Prize for Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2000
The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1999
Education, Culture & Sports Minister’s Prize for Artists in the Visual Arts
1993
Sandra Jacobs’ Anglo-Israeli Photographic Awards Project Scholarship, Department of Plastic Arts, Ministry of Culture
1993
Sandra Jacobs Foundation Prize
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv
The Jewish Museum, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada