Ronit PORAT
Introduction
Ronit Porat was born in Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, northern Israel.
She holds a Master's in Fine Arts from the Chelsea School of Art and Design in London, and a degree in Photography and Digital Media from the Hadassah College in Jerusalem, which she completed with distinction.
Porat works in the medium of photography, and includes archival materials and biographical texts in her installations. Her work was exhibited internationally in group and solo shows, and can be found in Tel Aviv Museum of Art Collection, Kölnische Stadtmuseum in Cologne, Van Loon Museum in Amsterdam, the Schocken Collection, as well as numerous private collections.
Porat is a member of the collective Indie Photography Gallery since 2010.
Biography
Education
2012 – 2013
- Fellowship Program, Alma College for Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2005
- MFA, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1999 – 2002
- Photography & Digital Media (Distinction), Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem
Solo exhibitions
2022
- Side By Side, Dual exhibition with Nirit Takele, Nassima Landau Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2019
- Hearsay, Indie Photography Group Gallery, Tel Aviv
- Grand Kenyon, with Guy Königstein, Artist House, Jerusalem
- Paradiesvögel, City Museum, Cologne
2018
- The Sentence, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- Capsule, Oranim Art Institute, Israel
2017
- Sophiornithidae, Van Loon Museum, Amsterdam
- Mr. Ulbrich & Miss Neumann, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2016
- The Hunter of Time, Indie Photography Group Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- When the Birds are Silent, International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2015
- Every Contact Leaves a Trace, The NB Haifa School of Design, Israel
- Kinesphere, Tmuna Theater, Intimidance Festival, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Nesting, with Mateusz Choróbski Asymetria Gallery, Warsaw
2013
- Hippocampus, Asymetria Gallery, Warsaw
- Portrait #4, The Photography Department Gallery, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel
2012
- Hippocampus, Indie Photography Group Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Group Exhibitions
2023
- Paris Photo, baudoin lebon, Paris
2021
- Terrarium, Akaretler Siraevler, Istanbul
2020
- Specters, Ashdod Museum of Art
- Up and Down The Mountain, The New Gallery , Artists' Studios Teddy, Jerusalem
2019
- Back To Artport, Artport, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Table, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2017
- Contact Zone, JHI, Warsaw
- Fifty years, Salon Yaffa, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Agoraphobia, Gabirol Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2016
- Künstlich – natürlich!, Sabot Gallery, Cluj, Romania
- The Disorder of Things, The New Gallery - Musrara, Jerusalem
- Photopoetics, The New Gallery - Musrara, Jerusalem
2015
- Friday the 13th, Circle Gallery, Berlin
- Paris Photo, Asymetria Gallery, Paris
- Quest, Binyamin House Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2014
- The Search Of Lost Time, Castrum Peregirini, Amsterdam
- Ministry of Culture and Sport Creativity Encouragement Prize, Haifa Museum of Art
- Chicago Triangle, Haifa Museum of Art
Grants and Awards
2022
- Artis Exhibition Grant recipient
2020
- Benrido Collotype, Hariban Award, Honourable Mention, Kyoto Japan
2019
- Asylum recipients for 2019 Small Grants Program
2017
- The Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist (through the Tel Aviv Museum of Art)
- 3Package Deal – Grant by Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK) and Bureau (BBP)
2016
- Artis Grant recipient
- Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Special Project Grant
- Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, Arts and Culture Grant
Residencies
2022
- Windler-Stiftung, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
2020
- ISSP, Riga
2018
- Artists meet the Archive, Cologne
2017
- Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2014
- Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam
2013
- Keret House, Warsaw
2012 – 2013
- Artport, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Publications and Reviews
2022
- Haaretz newspaper, Side By Side, Nissima Landau Gallery by Avi Pitshon
2021
- Haaretz newspaper, Specters, Ashdod Museum of Art by Gilad Meltzer
- Haaretz newspaper, Being With an Animal from the Haaretz collection
2018
- Haaretz newspaper, The Sentence, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Shaul Setter
- Time Out Tel Aviv, The Sentence, Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Meital Raz
2017
- Haaretz newspaper, Mr. Olbrich and Miss Neumann at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, by Uzi Tzur
2016
- Haaretz newspaper, The Hunter of Time, Tel Aviv-Jaffa by Galia Yahav
2014
- Art In America Magazine, Hippocampus, Asymmetry Gallery, Warsaw
2013
- SZUM Magazine, Hippocampus, Asymmetry Gallery, Warsaw
2012
- Haaretz newspaper, Hippocampus, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa by Galia Yahav
Curatorial projects
2015
- Tomasz Sharchen, Dream Photography, Indie Gallery – Curator
- Longing For the Sea, group exhibition, indie gallery - with Aya Nitzan
2013
- Ulrich Vogel, Window, Indie Gallery
- Nick Wapplington, Made Glorious Summer, Indie Gallery
2012
- The long day, group exhibition, indie gallery - together with Orit Bartini Shavit
public collections
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IL
- Van Loon Museum, NL
- Shoken collection, IL
- Kölnische Stadtmuseum, NL
