Education
2013- Graduate (MFA) at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.
2008- Undergraduate (BFA) at the Fine Arts Department at the Bezalel.
Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
2003- Photography studies at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia, Rome, Italy.
Solo Shows
2023 Constellations, Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Chair, Finley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Transit, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Este Corpo, Now Instant, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Place Relations: Identity in Contemporary Israeli Avant-Garde Art , CEPA, Buffalo, NY
Ciao Bella, AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles, CA
Morning Glory, Full Haus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 ltd presents...Barak Zemer/ Cold Feet, Sweaty Hands, ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Sealed and Punctured, two person show with Lila De Magalhaes, Private Island, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Pretty Sure it Was Then, USC Thesis Exhibition, Gayle and Ed Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Double Headed, Two person show with Itamar Shimshoni, The Cliff Gallery, Netanya, Israel
Selected group shows
2022 The Dividual, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Primum Non Nocere, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Home Bound, an online show curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer on galleryplatform.la
2019 Dreamin of a…, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shaggy Dog Stories and Other Tales, Angeles Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA (January, 2019)
2018 Second Nature, Gate 3, Haifa, Israel
2017 Second Nature, International Photo Festival 2017, Tel Aviv, Israel
Soil Erosion, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Vitrine show, Joan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
February, Roberta Pelan Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 Flowers In Your Hair, Fused Space (Curated by Night Gallery), San Francisco, CA
Rock, Paper, Scissors. Art and Play. Haifa Museum. Haifa, Israel
Vacuum, International Photography Festival, Jaffa Port Tel Aviv, Israel
Vapegoat Rising, Arturo Bandini at Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, TX
Opening Negotiations, Bakersfield College Jones Gallery, Bakersfeild, CA
2015 Sylvia Bataille, Joan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Midnight Sun, Ms. Barbers, Los Angeles, CA
Monday Me, Soccer ClubClub organized by Drag City, Chicago, IL
Ansel Adams Family Values, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
2014 ltd Los Angeles booth, NADA Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Black Box, Manofim, Jerusalem, Israel
Aftertaste, Grand Central Market, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Inside this Human Clay, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Black Box, Manofim, Jerusalem, Israel
Real Estate Conspiracies, The New & Bad Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2010 Wallpapers, Rea Workshop of Photography, Tel Aviv, Israel
Artists at Work, Ha’gada Ha’smalit, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Tendertender, Manofim, Jerusalem, Israel
2008 Homo Bellicus, Christiania Innovationszentrum, Berlin, Germany
Bezalel BFA Thesis Exhibition, Jerusalem, Israel.
Cats, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. Israel
Selected Publications and reviews
2022 Barak Zemer, Aquarium, Co-published by Hassla Press, NY and F Magazine, Houston, TX.
2019 Mitchell David, Catalogue for Place Relations: Identity in Contemporary Israeli Avant-Garde Art , CEPA, Buffalo, NY
2018 Palmer Albers, Kate. Aperture Magazine, Los Angeles, Edition 232, Fall 2018.Barak Zemer, Profile
2018 Morse, Rebecca. (2018) 27 L.A Photographers, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2018 Muenzer, David. Artforum Critic Pick Online, February 2018
2018 Varadi, Keith. Contemporary Art Review LA, (Carla), February 2018 online. “Barak Zemer at Night Gallery”
2017 Wagley, Catherine. LA Weekley, February 2017. “5 Art Shows to See in L.A this Week”
2016 ed Natalie Levin, Patriotism in Art, Protest Anthology
2016 Wagley, Catherine. LA Weekly, May 2016. “Are L.A.’s Emerging and Midcareer Artists Being Shut Out of the Glossy New Gallery Scene?”
2015 Cohn, Hana. Ed. L Preston Zappas. Contemporary Art Review LA (Carla), Nov 2015. “Sylvia Bataille at JOAN”
2015 Wedell, Noura, Ed. T. Lutz and K. Wolf. Los Angeles Review of Books, Winter 2015. “Somehow the Mud Shines: on photographs by Barak Zemer”
2013 Ed D. Nemeroff, C. Kohne, K. Wolf. Night Paper II Fall 2013
2012 ed Natalie Levin, Joshua Simon, Roy Arad, The New & Bad Art Magazine Issue No3
2011 ed Natalie Levin, Joshua Simon, Roy Arad, The New & Bad Art Magazine Issue No2
2010 Zilberberg Daniel. Walla Culture, “Celebrating the Double”,
Awards & Scholarships
2017 The LACMA LENS Photography Council Prize and acquisition
2016 Nominee for the Shpilman International prize for excellence in Photography, Los Angeles
2015 Nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant for the arts, Los Angeles
2011 The USC Teaching Assistantship Scholarship, the Roski School of Fine Arts
2008 The Keshet Institute Award for Excellence, the Fine Arts Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
The Mandel Leadership Institute Award
2008 The Sharet Institute Award, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2005 The Sharet Institute Award, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation