Ohad Matalon

Title: Desert View

Year: 2010

Size: 35x45 cm

Description: inkjet print on archival paper
Edition: 12 out of 100

Value: $500

About the Artist: 

Born 1972
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Since 2002, Teaches at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Education:

2005-2007	M.F.A “Bezalel Academy of Art and Design”, Tel Aviv
2003-2005	M.A. in Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
1997-2001	B.F.A in photography, “Bezalel Academy of Art and Design”, Jerusalem

Solo Exhibitions:

2012	“The Zone” Podbielski Contemporary Gallery Berlin
2010	“North True South Bright”, Contemporary by Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009	“Today”, Herzliya Biennial of Art, Herzliya
2005	“E”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2001	“Ohad Matalon”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011	“Making Room” Tel Aviv Museum of Art Preview Berlin Art fair “Imagenery Homelands” Mina gallery New York “Contemporary Israeli Photography” Tel Aviv Museum of Art “Israeli texture” Permanent exhibition at the Israel’s Parliament “Winners 2010″ winners of Ministry of culture prizes Ramat Gan Museum of Art “Human Landscape” Artist house Tel Aviv “Southern spirit” Hanegev Museum of art & at the Tel Aviv University gallery
2010	“Restart” Tavi artgallery Tel-Aviv “Decadence” Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv “Fresh paint 03 Art Fair, Jaffa “Watermelons” Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv
2009	ART TLV, Tel Aviv Biennial of Art “Dreary structures, Dreamy Structures” Ashdod Museum of Art “A Hard Day’s Night” Contemporary by Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv “Garden in the City” Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva “My Camp” Dollinger and Inga galleries, Tel Aviv “Cracks” Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv “In the Same Breath” Tavi Dresner Gallery, Tel Aviv “Calling Card” Contemporary by Gallery, Tel Aviv “Power Shows 04” Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei “Fresh paint 02 Art fair, Tel-Aviv
2008	“Border line-Mirror like” Huashan Culture Park, Taipei “Picnic Project”, the International Beijing Biennale, Beijing “Three Photographers”, Tel Aviv Artists Studios, Tel Aviv “Post Minimalism”, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya “Fresh paint 01 Art fair, Tel Aviv
2007	Tribute to Rafi Lavi, Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv “Cable Realease” Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv “Winners of Prices from the Ministry of Culture”, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art
2006	“Laterna Magica”, Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Bat-Yam “The Third Generation”, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv “Inhalexhale Project”, the 9th International Photography Gathering, Aleppo, Syria
2005	“Dash”, Chocolate Factory Gallery, London “Israeli Contemporary Photography, FotoGrafia, Rome “Jerusalem through Private lens” Jerusalem Artists House / the Kunsthaus, Hamburg “Life: Contemporary Photography from Israel” JCC Art Gallery, New York
2004	“Current Visions from Israel”, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2003	Winners of Hapais Award, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2002	“Fragile Line”, Um el Phahem Galllery, Um el Phahem “New Acquisitions” Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2001	“Gallery Photographers”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

Awards:

2010	The Minister of culture award
2008	“Artist in Community” scholarship from the Ministry of culture & education
2007	Mifal Hapais Scholarship for photography project
2006	“Young Artist” award from the Ministry of culture & education.
2005	Citation at the young photographer competition of Haifa Museum of Art
2002	“Mifal Hapais” award – first portrait

Selected Collections:
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
Israel’s parliament
Haifa Museum of Art
Mishkenot Shaananim Photography Collection
Petach Tikva Museum
Shpilman Institute for photography
Katri family
Rapaport family
Yigal Ahuvi
Uzi Zucker & Rivka Saker
More private collections in Israel & abroad

Website: http://www.ohadmatalon.com

Courtesy of Keren Bar-Gil http://www.kerenbargil.com/