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Uri Gershuni 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, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Shpilman Institute of Photography.
He is gay.
Exhibitions
= Israel
== Worldwide
=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
References
External links
Uri Gershuni
The Double Exposure Project: Uri Gershuni & Hagi Kenaan
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Uri Gershuni
- Gershuni
- Moshe Gershuni
- List of LGBT Jews
- Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: G
- Laila Schwartz
- Nahum Tevet
- Shpilman Institute of Photography
- Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
