Sheffy Bleier

Sheffy Bleier
Born	Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Education	Tel Aviv University, Beit Berl College, Open University of Israel
Known for	Photography
Movement	Israeli art, Modern Art

Sheffy Bleier is an Israeli photographer and educator.

Biography

Sheffy Bleier is an israeli photographer and visual artist, mostly known for her provocative still life images primarily made of animal parts.^[1][2] Some of her works are also research human relationship and motherhood, for example, the series "What remains" in which she exhibited images of still life objects, related to her son Jonathan early years. Bleier was born and raised in Tel Aviv where she continues to work. In addition to being an artist, she is also and educator, teaching in HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College from 2001.

Bleiers works are in permanent collections of The Israel Museum in Jerusalem,^[3] Haifa Museum of Art,^[4] The Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan and The Open Museum of Photography in Tel-Hai.

Exhibitions

In recent years she has exhibited her works at many solo and group shows around the world and in Israel.

Solo

• 1995 "Photographs 1994," Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 1997 "My Mother and Father, My Brother, My Sister, My Little Sister, Me, My Husband, and My Son..." The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
• 1999 "Bras, Pillows, and Used Condoms (Emotional Substitutes)," Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 2000 "Fooling Saucer" Haifa Museum of Art^[5]
• 2005 "My Mother and Father, My Brother, My Sister, My Little Sister, Me and My Son...", Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art^[6]
• 2009-2010 "Body of Love", Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai

Group

2012

• "Cabinet of curiosities". Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art^[7]

2011

• "Photopoetic", Musrara Gallery, Jerusalem
• "Human Landscape", The Artist House, Tel Aviv
• "The Beauty of Mistake", The Spaceship, Tel Aviv
• "Resonance Boxes", Artists Transform Violin Cases, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv

2010

• "Neck Serving", Photography Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

2008

• "Meat After Meat Joy", Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York^[8]
• "Family Members," Al-Qasemi Academy, Baqa el-Gharbiya, Israel
• "Layla: Young Israeli Artists," Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York

2007

• "Work Meeting," Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
• "This is Not Israeli Art," The Art Gallery, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv

2006

• "Partners 2006 - The Holiday of Holidays" Festival, Beit Hagefen, Haifa

2005

• "Power," as part of "Omanut Haaretz 4," Reading Power Station Compound, Tel Aviv
• "League," International Woman's Day 2005, Bait Banamal, Tel Aviv Port

2004

• "Points in Time," The Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design and Education, Wizo-Haifa
• "Dreamland," Greendag Gallery, Herzliya Pituach, Israel

2002

• "Raising Hell", The New Gallery, Avni School of Art, Tel Aviv

1999

• "Collection Exhibition," The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
• "Life in Tandem", Rishon Le'Zion Auditorium, Israel

1998

• "Women in the Reality World," Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
• "Condition Report: Photography in Israel Today," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• "Creativity Encouragement Prize Winners' Exhibition," The Artists' House, Tel Aviv
• "The Photographer's Child," The New Art Workshop, Ramat Eliyahu, Israel

1997

• "Ho Mama: Representation of the Mother in Contemporary Israeli Art," The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
• "Documentation or Fiction?", Photography Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

1996

• "Healing the Breach," as part of "ArtFocus," Yadayim Gallery, Tel Aviv

1990

• Recipients of the America-Israel (Sharet) Cultural Foundation Scholarships exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1989

• "Memory Channels, Imagined Images, and Re-Imagined Images," Dizengoff Center Gallery, Tel Aviv
• "Hamidrasha Graduates Exhibition," Rap Gallery, Tel Aviv

Awards

2010 The Israel Lottery Council for The Arts Prize

2009 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts

1997 Creativity Encouragement Prize for the Visual Arts, Department of Visual Art, The Council of Culture and Arts, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture

1989 Sharet Scholarship Program, America-Israel Cultural Foundation

External links

• Sheffy Bleier
• Sheffy Bleier in Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

References

1. http://nihilsentimentalgia.com/2011/03/23/%E2%94%90-sheffy-bleier-%E2%94%94/
2. http://b2.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/One-womans-treasure
3. http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/newsite/en/?artist=Bleier,%20Sheffy&list=B
4. http://www.hma.org.il/Museum/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=853&FID=585&PID=1602
5. http://www.hma.org.il/Museum/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=853&FID=585&PID=1602
6. http://www.herzliyamuseum.co.il/english/september2005/sep05/sheffy-bleier
7. http://www.haaretz.com/life/arts-leisure/cabinets-of-curiosities-filled-with-peculiar-wonder-at-herzliya-museum-1.476363
8. http://www.heidehatry.com/meat_after_meat_joy.html