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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

 

2018      Transit, Night Gallery, 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

 

 

2020     Guest curator exhibition, Sarah Lehrer Graiwer, GalleryPlatformLA, online show

             Nocere Non Primum, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

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     Este Corpo, Now Instant, Los Angeles, CA

             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

              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

 

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

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