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Tamar Katz (b. 1989) is a video and performance artist. Katz’s work focuses on situations where intimacy, violence and objectification of the body intersect. Her work shifts from experimental film to camera-mediated performance, staged dance, participatory and new-media based performance. Through the act of performing, acting and playing Katz investigates the potential of new forms of intimacy and the politics of the relations.
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Education
2018-20 MFA, Bezalel Art Academy, Israel
2010-14 BFA in multidisciplinary-art, Shenkar College, Israel
2013 Student exchange HAW Hamburg, Germany
Selected Solo exhibitions
2024 Losers’ Paradise, BAI | 404, Berlin Art Institute, Berlin, Germany
2022 The Sounds of the Humpback Whales, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Meital Aviram
2016 Slow Release, Artists’ Studios Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Eitan Buganim
2015 Aieka?, STA project space, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performance
2023 Imagine a Museum or: The Remembering Body, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel
2021 Insiders, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel
2021 Video-o-o Art Now, The New Gallery Artists’-Studios, Teddy, Jerusalem, Israel
2020 The Cliff, MFA Thesis Show, Bezalel Academy For Art And Design, Tel Aviv, Israel (critic HE)
2020 Ministry of Culture Award Winners exhibition, Ashdod Museum, Ashdod, Israel
2020 XO, Atar, Old-Jaffa Museum, Jaffa, Israel
2020 Hotel Happiness, virtual exhibition
2019 Zumu #4, Traveling Museum, Kiryat-Yam, Israel
2019 Interior, P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2019 Zamal, Bezalel gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 ViDEOSKiN, Edge Gallery, Whitehorse, Canada
2016 Massage, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 Term and Conditions, Warth Gallery Shenkar, Ramat Gan, Israel
2015 The Wedding, Gabirol Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Real-A-State, Tiroche Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2013 Un-Unusual, Elektrohaus, Hamburg, Germany
Film festivals
2021 Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel
2018 Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel
2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
2018 Epos - International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
Grants
2024 Artis organization residency grant
2022 Tel Aviv Jaffa Ministry with Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
2022 Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts
2020 Bezalel Academy, Excellence Award
2018 Ministry of Culture of Israel, Young Artist Award
2017 Adams Family Foundation, Young Artist Award
2015 Tel Aviv Jaffa Ministry with Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
Residency programs
2024 Berlin Art Institute (BAI), Berlin, Germany
2019 A-Z West Residency, Joshua Tree (CA), USA
2019 Zumu Artist Residency, Kiryat-Yam, Israel
2017 Club-Conceptual Bezalel MFA residency, Tel Aviv, Israel
Catalogs
2023 Imagine a Museum: Or the Remembering Body, Tel Aviv Museum
2020 Ministry of Culture Award Winners, Ashdod Museum
2019 Zumu 04, Traveling Museum, Kiryat-Yam
Teaching experience
2023- Freelance lecturer, TaTarbut Kiryat Ha’melacha Tel Aviv
2022-23 Mentor in STEP program, Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar College
2019-22 Assistant lecturer, Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar College