# Uri Gershuni

Uri Gershuni (born 1970) is an Israeli photographer and educator.

## Biography

Uri Gershuni was born in Raanana in 1970. He is son of Israeli painter Moshe Gershuni and sculptor and jewelry designer Bianca Eshel Gershuni.
Gershuni graduated from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design’s Photography Department, holding BFA and MFA. He teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and in WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education. He works and lives in Tel Aviv.
He was a photographer for Yedioth Ahronoth from 2003 and 2007. From 2009 he is a photographer for Haaretz.
Uri Gershuni works are in permanent collections of Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel Museum, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Shpilman Institute of Photography.
He is gay.

## Exhibitions
### Israel

| City | Venue | Type | Collection/Installation | Year(s) |
| Ashdod | Ashdod Museum of Art | Group | A Road to Nowhere | 2011 |
| Ashdod | Ashdod Museum of Art | Group | Young Artist Awards | 2013 |
| Bat Yam | David Ben-Ari Museum for Contemporary Art | Group | Sweet 16 | 2007 |
| Beit Berl | Hmidrasha Art Gallery | Solo | "The Phantom Menace" | 2000 |
| Beit Berl | Hmidrasha Art Gallery | Solo | "Department" | 2006 |
| Beit Berl | Ha'midrasha Photography Gallery | Solo | "Yesterday's Sun, Photography Book No. 1" (Curator: Noa Ben-Shalom) | 2013 |
| Haifa | Haifa City Museum | Group | Between the Mountain and the Sea | 2000 |
| Haifa | Haifa Museum of Art | Solo | "I Have a Gigantic Electricity Bill Too" | 1999 |
| Haifa | Haifa Museum of Art | Group | Boys craft | 2007 |
| Haifa | Haifa Museum of Art | Group | Haifa Museum of Art Collection: Dynasties | 2014 |
| Haifa | New Aggaf Gallery | Group | Be My Guest | 2013 |
| Haifa | University of Haifa Gallery | Group | Home | 2003 |
| Haifa | University of Haifa Gallery | Group | Click....grrrr... | 2008 |
| Herzliya | Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art | Group | Behind Closed Doors | 2003 |
| Herzliya | Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art | Group | Eventually we'll die, young israeli art of the 90's | 2008 |
| Herzliya | Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art | Group | Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art: From Astonishment to Disenchantment | 2012 |
| Herzliya | Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art | Group | "In the Court of the White Lady" (Curator: Aya Lurie) | 2015 |
| Jerusalem | Israel Museum | Group | Books | 2005 |
| Jerusalem | Israel Museum | Group | The Homes of Others | 2008 |
| Jerusalem | Israel Museum | Group | Journeys (Curator: Kobi Ben Meir) | 2014 |
| Jerusalem | Israel Museum | Solo | "Apollo and the Chimney Sweeper" (Curator: Noam Gal) | 2015 |
| Jerusalem | Mishkenot Sha'ananim Gallery | Group | Streetwise | 2008 |
| Jerusalem | Musrara School | Group | Youth | 2008 |
| Jerusalem | Musrara School | Group | Teachers (Curators: Avi Sabag and Ayelet Hashahar Cohen) | 2012 |
| Jerusalem | Musrara School | Group | The Time Defined by Human Beings is But a Dream (Curator: Ilanit Konopny) | 2012 |
| Jerusalem | Musrara School | Group | The Wilderness My Brother Wanders (Curator: Eyal Ben Dov) | 2013 |
| Kfar Saba | Kfar Saba City Gallery | Group | Culture Club (Curator: Hadassa Gorohovski) | 2012 |
| Kiryat Tiv'on | Oranim Art Institute | Group | Mother | 2003 |
| Kiryat Tiv'on | Oranim Art Institute | Group | Stills | 2007 |
| Machanayim | Machanyim Art Gallery | Solo | "Cruciferae Family" | 2001 |
| Petah Tikva | Petah Tikva Museum | Group | After | 2006 |
| Ra'anana | Open University Gallery | Group | Sacred or Sacrilege? (Curator: Alec Mishory) | 2013 |
| Ramat Gan | Ramat Gan Museum | Group | Ho mama | 1997 |
| Ramat Gan | Ramat Gan Museum | Group | Minister of Culture Prize for Young Artist | 2001 |
| Ramat Gan | Ramat Gan Museum | Group | Men | 2006 |
| Ramleh | Ramleh City Gallery | Group | Snapshot | 2008 |
| Rishon LeZion | Rishon LeZion City Gallery | Group | Sleep | 2007 |
| Umm al-Fahm | Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery | Group | Fragile Line | 2002 |
| Tel Aviv | A.A. Silver Gallery | Group | Plastic Sheet | 2001 |
| Tel Aviv | Art Israel Internet Biennial 2 | Group | Negotiation (Curator: Shalom Amira) | 2012 |
| Tel Aviv | Artspace | Group | Portraits | 2004 |
| Tel Aviv | BAAD Gallery | Group | Random | 2012 |
| Tel Aviv | Baaley Hamelacha Gallery | Group | Net Games | 2010 |
| Tel Aviv | Bealey Melacha | Group | Noise | 2011 |
| Tel Aviv | Beir Ha'ir | Group | Night Stamp (Curator: Ayelet Bitan Shlonsky) | 2013 |
| Tel Aviv | Beit Meyuhas | Group | The End of the World (Galit Semel) | 2012 |
| Tel Aviv | Beit Reuven | Group | In those days | 2004 |
| Tel Aviv | Bezalel-Salame Gallery | Group | Flock | 2008 |
| Tel Aviv | Bezalel-Salame Gallery | Group | Four Openings in Israeli Art | 2009 |
| Tel Aviv | Bezalel-Salame Gallery | Group | Casino Ayalon | 2011 |
| Tel Aviv | Bineth Gallery | Group | Art Couture | 2010 |
| Tel Aviv | Binyamin Gallery | Group | What is to Become (Curator: Etty Schwartz) | 2013 |
| Tel Aviv | Braverman Gallery | Group | Reunion | 2004 |
| Tel Aviv | The Center for Contemporary Art | Group | Knitted Registry (Curator: Ruty Chinsky-Amity) | 2013 |
| Tel Aviv | Chelouche Gallery | Group | Re-location | 2010 |
| Tel Aviv | Chelouche Gallery | Solo | "Yesterday's Sun" | 2012 |
| Tel Aviv | Chelouche Gallery | Group | Time After Time | 2013 |
| Tel Aviv | Chelouche Gallery | Solo | "Nothing but Darkness" | 2015 |
| Tel Aviv | D&A Gallery | Group | Closer | 2007 |
| Tel Aviv | The Diaghilev | Group | Be My Guest | 2010 |
| Tel Aviv | Eretz Israel Museum | Group | Local Testimony 2013 (Curator: Moran Shoub) | 2013 |
| Tel Aviv | Feinberg Projects Gallery | Group | Surface Currents (Curator: Yham Hameiri) | 2013 |
| Tel Aviv | Gal-on-Gallery | Group | Z-B-A | 2009 |
| Tel Aviv | Hachalalit Gallery | Group | Self service | 2009 |
| Tel Aviv | Hachalalit Gallery | Group | Sex-sin | 2010 |
| Tel Aviv | Hachalalit Gallery | Group | Statues | 2013 |
| Tel Aviv | Hakibutz Gallery | Group | Desert Generation | 2007 |
| Tel Aviv | Hamidrasha Gallery | Group | Side Effect | 2003 |
| Tel Aviv | Haoman | Group | Passion | 2007 |
| Tel Aviv | Hatachana | Group | Industry | 2009 |
| Tel Aviv | HerzLilienblum Museum | Group | Israel Discount Bank Album No. 16. | 2013 |
| Tel Aviv | Hilton Hotel | Group | Prologue | 1999 |
| Tel Aviv | Inga Gallery | Group | Men | 2009 |
| Tel Aviv | Inga Gallery | Solo | "Day and Night" | 2010 |
| Tel Aviv | Inga Gallery | Solo | "Eye Contact" | 2012 |
| Tel Aviv | Jaffa | Group | Three Chambers | 2014 |
| Tel Aviv | Line 16 Gallery | Solo | "Decent Swinishness" | 2000 |
| Tel Aviv | Line 16 Gallery | Group | Utility Furniture | 2001 |
| Tel Aviv | Nehama Gallery | Group | Winter dreamers | 1997 |
| Tel Aviv | Photography Festival | Group | Black Box | 2012 |
| Tel Aviv | Port-house gallery | Group | Mama's Boy | 2008 |
| Tel Aviv | Riding Power Station | Group | Omanut Haaretz festival | 2005 |
| Tel Aviv | Rosenfled Gallery | Group | Power of Attraction | 2014 |
| Tel Aviv | Sadnaot Haomanim Gallery | Group | Non stop art | 2004 |
| Tel Aviv | Sadnaot Haomanim Gallery | Solo | ""Dark Ages" | 2005 |
| Tel Aviv | Shpilman Institute of Photography | Group | The Double Exposure Project (Curators: Aya Lurie, Orit Bulgaru, and Anat Ascher) | 2014 |
| Tel Aviv | Sotheby's | Group | Emerging Artists | 1999 |
| Tel Aviv | Spaceship at Hayarkon 70 | Group | The Beauty of Mistake | 2011 |
| Tel Aviv | Spaceship at Hayarkon 70 | Group | Objects (Curator: Daniel Tsal) | 2012 |
| Tel Aviv | Spaceship at Hayarkon 70 | Group | Camera obscura (Curator: Hila Cohen Schneiderman) | 2012 |
| Tel Aviv | Tavi Art Gallery | Group | Relocation | 2010 |
| Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv Artists House | Group | My Beloved Pornography | 2007 |
| Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv Artists House | Group | Public Garden | 2007 |
| Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv Artists House | Group | Ethics - Esthetics | 2009 |
| Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv Artists House | Group | Human Landscape | 2011 |
| Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv Artists House | Group | A Piece of Cake | 2011 |
| Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv Museum of Art | Group | Rose ce'st la vie | 2004 |
| Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv Museum of Art | Group | Living Room | 2010 |
| Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv Museum of Art | Solo | "Selective Mutism" | 2011 |
| Tel Aviv | Tmuna gallery | Group | It is Not Israeli Art | 2007 |
| Tel Aviv | Tmuna gallery | Group | The Secret Viewer | 2008 |
| Tel Aviv | Zaritisky Artists' House | Group | Remembering Boaz Tal (Curator: Sorin Heller) | 2012 |
| Tel Aviv | Zaritisky Artists' House | Group | Local Pulse (Curators: Orly Hoffman and Arie Berkovich) | 2013 |
| Tel Aviv | Ziz Art Space | Group | Ziz Prints | 2014 |
| Yad Mordechai | Dana Gallery | Group | Different Place (Curator: Ravit Harari) | 2012 |

### Worldwide

| Country | City | Venue | Type | Collection/Installation | Year(s) |
| Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Photorial Festival | Group | City Space | 2007 |
| England | London | The Gallery Soho | Group | Freedom of Expression - True Colors | 2011 |
| England | London | 100 Years Gallery | Group | The First Day | 2013 |
| England | Manchester | The CUBE Gallery | Group | Freedom of Expression - True Colors | 2011 |
| France | Marseille | Marseille Art Centre | Group | Marshim | 2004 |
| Germany | Berlin | Artneuland Gallery | Group | Portraits | 2007 |
| Germany | Berlin | Axel Springer | Solo | "Yad" | 2007 |
| Germany | Berlin | Volume Gallery | Solo | "Publish" | 2013 |
| Germany | Düsseldorf | Galerie Voss | Group | Lost Scapes | 2015 |
| Russia | Moscow | Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod | Group | Calm Before the Storm | 2010 |
| Switzerland | Bellinzona | MACT/CACT Museum and Centre for Contemporary Art | Group | Deep Inside. Dissociations (Curator: Mario Casanova) | 2012 |
| Switzerland | Bellinzona | MACT/CACT Museum and Centre for Contemporary Art | Group | The Solitary Body: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Photography | 2013 |
| United States | New York City | Cooper Union | Group | Chosen graduates | 1997 |

## Curatorial projects

* 2010 Sofia, Solo Exhibition of Bianca Eshel Gershuni, Inga gallery, Tel Aviv
* 2011 Hatima Tova, Group Exhibition, Inga gallery, Tel Aviv
* 2012 Incident Light, solo exhibition of Sasha Flit, Indie Gallery
* 2013 Big Yekatherina, solo exhibition of Valery Bikovsky, part of the exhibition Art's Outer Circles, Haifa Museum of Art
* 2014 Horror Movie, group exhibition, the International Photography Festival, Rishon LeZion
* 2014 Nehushtan, group exhibition, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv

## Awards

* 1995 - Special presidential grant for excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
* 2000 - Minister of education and culture award for young Israeli artist
* 2005 - Young photographers award on behalf of Haifa Museum of Art
* 2007 - Heskia Hacmun award
* 2012 - Israel's Minister of Culture ‘Art Encouragement’ Award

## Gallery

* Blue Hour 2014
* 2010
* 2009