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Born in 1977, Israel. Lives and works in Tel Aviv Tel.

Education

2007-2009 Master in Fine Arts (M.F.A) (cum laude), Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv

2000-2004 Bachelor of Design (B. Des), Industrial Design department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.

Grants

2018 The Creativity Encouragement Award, the Israeli Ministry of Culture

2017 Asylum Arts Retreat, Warsaw

2016 The Pais Council for Culture and Art, catalogue production grant

2015 Outset Israel Grant Recipient

2014 –2016 Gabirol residency program, Tel aviv-yafo municipality, Israel

2013 Artis grant recipient (apexart, New York for the exhibition The Hidden Passengers curated by Avi Lubin)

2012 Young Artist Award by Israeli Ministry of Culture

2008 M.F.A Program Excellence Award, Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv

2008 Excellence Award by Photographer's Forum Magazine, The 28th Annual Spring

2008 "Global Institute Session 2", international seminar in the occasion of the 7th Gwangju Biennale, Korea

2004 Excellence Grant of the Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor, Jerusalem

Solo Exhibitions and Large Scale Commissions

2022 But Why Do I Hear the Crickets, it's Morning, Solo show at Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Curator: Irena Gordon

2022 A Seal in the Stone, Solo exhibition at Savyon Culture Center. Curator: Drorit Gur-Arie

2019 Stillbirth, Site specific installation, commission for “Nurse, Nurse”, Bikur Cholim Hospital, main exhibition of Manofim Jerusalem Contemporary Art Festival. Curators: Rinat Edelstein and Lee He Shulov

2019 KIKALON, solo show at Biyalik house, Tel Aviv. Curator: Smadar Sheffi

2017 Something's Happened to Us, Father, solo show at Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Avi Lubin

2017 BODIES, Collaboration with choreographer Sharon Vazanna, at Open Look International Dance festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 2nd and July 3rd

2017 HANOTERET, Solo exhibition at Gabirol Gallery, Tel Aviv (opening: March 17th 2017)

2016 Seed Library, A large scale commission for SLSC Museum, Saint Louis Science Center

2016 Ministry of Information, Solo exhibition at Beit Hankin Museum. Curator: Neta Haber

2016 Fetal Baby, Commission for Group exhibition Between Synapses: Where Art And Brain Sciences Intersect, collaboration with Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Curator: Michal Mor

2016 Research for the Full Crypto-Taxidermical Index (Mother of All Wheat), commission for group exhibition Agropolis, The Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Maayan Sheleff

2015-2016 Bodies, collaboration with choreographer Sharon Vazanna, Warehouse 2, Jaffa Port

2015 Fluids, a creation in collaboration with the choreographer Sharon Vazanna at The Jaffa to Agripas Events, Jerusalem

2015 Mother of All Wheat, large scale commission for Agro-Art: Contemporary Agriculture in Israeli Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Curator: Tali Tamir

2015 Site specific commission for Adam/a, The Jezreel Valley Museum, Kibbutz Yifat. Curator: Neta Haber

2013 Site specific commission for Collecting Dust, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Tami Manor-Friedman

2012 Terra Incognita, solo show in Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Avi Lubin

2012 The Visit #2, site specific commissioned for Border Line, Beit Ha'ir (old city hall), Tel Aviv. Curator: Ayelet Bitan Shlonsky

2010 Tomer Sapir: Sculptures and Paper Works, solo show in the occasion of Love Art Do Art, Tel Aviv

2010 Research for the Full Crypto-Taxidermical Index, large scale commission for Shelf Life, Haifa Museum of Art , Haifa. Curators: Tami Katz-Freiman and Rotem Ruff

2009 The Visit, solo show in Industry (old railway station in Menashiya, Tel Aviv), M.F.A graduate show, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design2007 Prostheses, solo show in Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curaor: Sarit Shapira

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Burrows, Hacubia (Manofim Jerusalem Contemporary Art Festival), Curator: Shira Fridman

2021 Digging Down – Art of the Pre-Future, The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem Curator: Shira Fridman

2021 LIFE / STILL LIFE / LAND, Museum, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem. Curator: Raphie Etgar

2020 Vividus, Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Curator: Bar Yerushalmi

2020 WINNERS, (The Culture and Sport Ministry Awards for Art), Ashdod Art Museum. Curator: Yuval Biton, Roni Cohen Binyamini and Dafna Gazit

2020 Seven Divisions, Studio Bank, Tel Aviv, Curator: Yael Sloma

2018 To the End of Land, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Curators: Drorit Gur-Arie and Or Tshuva

2018 The Twin Paradox, Mom Art Space, Hamburg. Curator: Avi Lubin

2016 Circular Movements, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam e. V., Potsdam. Curator: Avi Lubin

2014 Dark Times, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University. Curator: Avi Lubin

2014 Concrete, Bulimia, Benyamini Center, Tel Aviv. Curator: Tali Tamir

2014 The Hidden Passengers, Apexart, NYC. Curator: Avi Lubin

2014 Partners, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Tal Amitai-Lavi

2013 WINNERS 2012 (The Culture and Sport Ministry Awards for Art), Ashdod Art Museum. Curator: Yuval Biton

2013 Substance & Stain, Kupferman's House, Kibbutz Lohamei Ha'ghetaot. Curator: Irit Carmon Popper

2012 Unnatural, Bass Museum of Art, Miami. Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman

2012 Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art – From Astonishment to Disenchantment, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya. Curators: Dalia Levin, Daria Kaufmann and Ghila Limon

2012 Intersections: Science in Contemporary Art, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot. Curators: Cathy Wills and Carolyn Drake

2012 Varmints, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Carmela Weiss

2012 Ground Work, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Avi Lubin

2011 The End of History, Künstlerhaus Speckstraße and Kutscherhäuser, Hamburg. Curator: Avi Lubin

2011 Today Only, Cca, Tel Aviv. Curator: Gai Silverman

2011 Slough, Gallery 121, Tel Aviv. Curator: Carmit Blumenson

2010 The Alchemists, Kav 16, Tel Aviv. Curator: Sally Haftel Naveh

2010 Re- Location, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv

2010 Grandfather Paradox, ON-OFF Artprojects, Hamburg. Curator: Avi Lubin

2010 Met-Al-Morphosa, 5th Hanegev st (in the occasion of Tel Aviv Loveart events)

2010 Grandfather Paradox, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Avi Lubin

2009 Secret Art 4, Beit Mani, Tel Aviv. Curator: Esti Drori and Doron Polak

2009 The Answer is within You, Substitut, Berlin. Curator: Urs Küenzi

2009 Harika, Hachava Gallery, Holon. Curator: Irit Carmon Popper

2009 A+4, The GSA, Glasgow

2008 Secret Art 3, Beit Mani, Tel Aviv

2008 Koresh Operation 2, Koresh Site, Jerusalem. Curators: Tanya Bubnov, Hili Greenfeld and Vered Hadad

2008 25 ASA, Hôtel de Ville, Marseille, France

2008 Larchmont Art Fair, NY, Curator: Ayelet Danielle Aldouby

2007 Dream Makers, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Alex Ward

2006 In Front of Your Nose, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. Curator: Meira Yagid-Haimovici

2005 Animality, Maison & Objet, Paris

2005 Promisedesign, The Triennale, Milan ; DESIGNMAI, Berlin TalentZone, Copenhagen

2005 Phenomenology, Salone del Mobile, Milan; New Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ezri Tarazi

2004 Beyond the Functional; Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ezri Tarazi

Selected Publications

2023 Interview for Portfolio Magazine, Reut Barnea, 19.1.23

2021 Interview for border_less, Hou Rf, 8.4.20

2019 Interview for Haaretz, Art section, Naama Riba, 31.3.19

2018 "Tomer Sapir - Research for the Full Crypto-Taxidermical Index", an artist book that summarizes my body of work from the past decade, including texts by curators Tami Katz-Freiman, Tali Tamir and Avi Lubin

2018 Haaretz, Culture & Literature supplement, Uzi Tsur, 12.1.18 / Something's Happened to Us, Father

2018 Calalist, Yediot Aharonot, Anat Barzilai 1.1.18 / Something's Happened to Us, Father

2017 Portfolio magazine, Hagit Peleg Rotem, 21.12.17 / Something's Happened to Us, Father

2016 Interview in Sculpture Magazine (of the ISC), Angela Levine, March 2016

2015 The Agricultural Exhibition, catalogue, Petach Tikva Museum of Art

2015 7 Leilot, Yediot Aharonot, Dana Gillerman 1.5.15 / Mother of All Wheat

2015 Interview for IBA, National TV, 30.5.15 / Mother of All Wheat

2014 Dark times, catalogue, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University

2014 JOKOPOST.COM, Hanna Korpel 29.12.14 / Dark Times

2014 Globs art section, Hagit Peleg Rotem, 17.12.14 / Dark Times

2014 DailyServing, Amelia Rina, 17.7. 14 / The Hidden Passengers at apexart

2014 Collecting Dust, catalogue, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2013 WINNERS 2012 (The Culture and Sport Ministry Awards for Art), catalogue, Ashdod Art Museum

2013 Preserved, 15.2.13 / Research for the Full Crypto-Taxidermical Index

2012 Unnatural, catalogue, Bass Museum of Art, Miami

2012 Intersections: Science in Contemporary Art, catalogue, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

2012 The Jerusalem Post, Art section, Graham Lawson, 26.10.12 / Cabinets Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art exhibition

2012 Haaretz, Culture & Literature supplement, Uzi Tsur, 11.10.12 / Cabinets of Wonder

2012 Midnight East, Angela Levine, 13.9.12 / Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art exhibition

2012 Guernica Magazine of Art and Politics, Helen Bartley, Aug 2012 / interview

2012 NY Arts magazine, Avi Lubin, June 2012 / Terra Incognita exhibition

2010 NY Arts magazine, fall issue 2010 / double spread - Research for the Full Crypto-Taxidermical Index, 2010

2010 NY Arts magazine, fall issue, 2010 (web version) / Crypto-Taxidermical Index, 2010

2010 City Mouse Tel-Aviv, Art section, Nurit Tal-Tenne, 2.12.2010 / The Alchemists exhibition

2010 Haaretz, Culture & Literature supplement, Uzi Tsur, 19.11.2010 / Re-Location exhibition

2010 Time Out, Art section, Galia Yahav, 18.11.2010 / The Alchemists exhibition

2010 Haaretz, Culture & Literature supplement, Uzi Tsur, 23.7.2010 / Grandfather Paradox exhibition

2010 Midnight East, 1.3.2010 / Shelf Life, Haifa Museum of Art

2010 Shelf Life, Haifa Museum of Art , catalogue, Haifa

2009 Maarav, June 2009 / The Visit, Industry (old railway station in Menashiya, Tel Aviv), M.F.A graduate show, Bezalel

2008 Picnic, September 2008

2008 25 ASA, catalogue, Hôtel de Ville, Marseille, France, 2008

2008 Comfort, Chinese Magazine, July 2008

2007 Prostheses, catalogue, Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2007

2007 City Mouse Tel-Aviv, March 2007 / Art section / Interview on the occasion of Prostheses exhibition

2007 Glleria, Haaretz, February 2007 / Prostheses exhibition

2007 Dream Makers, catalogue, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2007

2007 Walla, an Israeli Internet magazine, Interview for the art column "Ha'oman 17", January 2007

2006 IN FRONT OF YOUR NOSE, catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2006