Assi Meshullam
Assi Meshullam
Artist and lecturer,
Art Professor in the University of Haifa.
BA in Fine Arts and Archaeology
MA in Biblical Studies
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Born in Israel, 1975
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Assi Meshullam is a contemporary, multidisciplinary visual artist whose works deal with questions of religion, ritual and myth, and the ways in which these are expressed in today's world.
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Awards
2021 Rappaport Prize, The Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Foundation, Tel Aviv Museum.
2014 Prize in Art (Ministry of Culture) from the Ministry of Culture and Sport.
2012 Project Support, Rabinovich Foundation and Tel Aviv Municipality.
2010 Prize in Art (Idud Hayetsira) from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
2003 “Artist-Teacher” Project, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport.
2002 “Young Artist” Prize from the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport.
2001 “Yocheved Vidra” Award for a young artist, Haifa University.
2000 America-Israel Cultural Foundation’s scholarship.
2000 Scholarship for excellence in art studies, Haifa University.
1999 “Hecht” Award for young artists, Hecht Museum, Haifa.
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Solo and Duo Exhibitions
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2020 All the Gifts, Schechter Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by Shira Friedman.
2020 Ghosts, (Duo with Itzu Rimmer), White House Gallery, Nir Oz, Israel.
2019 Temples of the Abyss, 1:1 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by Guy Morag & Omer
Krieger
2015 Between Ethos and Mythos, (Duo with Jonathan Gold), Hecht Museum, Haifa, Israel.
Curated by Sorin Heller.
2015 Under Every Oak, Mane Katz Museum, Haifa, Israel. Curated by Svetlana Reingold.
2014 African Savage, Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2013 Klone & Meshullam, (Duo with Klone), Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2013 The Retrospective, Hazimmer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2012 Baal Ha'Loa, Hahanut Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by Rani Lavie.
2010 Lexicon of Principles, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2008 Iscariot, Julie M. Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2007 Pessel, Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat Gan, Israel. Curated by Yehudit Matzkel.
2006 Tzahit Goldman & Assi Meshullam, (Duo), Julie M. Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
2006 Rir, Peka Gallery, Technion Faculty for Architecture, Haifa, Israel.
2005 Leprosy, Kabri Art Gallery, Kabri Kibbutz, Israel. Curated by Drora Dekel.
2005 Rir, Lohamey Hageta'ot Art Gallery, L.H Kibbutz, Israel.
2005 Rir, Julie M. Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2004 Familiar Anomaly, Gallery of Yizrael Valley College, Israel.
2003 Chizbat, City Gallery for Art, Rehovot, Israel. Curated by Ora Kraus.
2003 Amazonas, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, Israel. Curated by Raya Zommer.
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2022 Had Gadya - The Horror Cycle, Artists' House, Jerusalem. Curated by Sophia Dekel
Caspi.
2022 Lining of the Sublime, Old Jaffa Museum, Tel Aviv. Curated by students under the
guidance of Tami Katz Freiman.
2022 Volta, Talvez em Casa?, Contemporao SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Curated Yiftach
Peled & Dan Alon.
2022 Food Weave, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Drorit Gur Arie & Nira Itzhaki.
2022 Commandments & Things, The Kupferman Collection House, Lohamei Hagetaot.
Idit Levavi Gabbai & Tamar Hurvitz Livne.
2022 Nega, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem. Curated by Alon Razgor.
2021 Post Plague, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Gilad Efrat & Ilai Rowner.
2021 Digging Down: Art of the Pre-Future, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem. Curated by
Shira Friedman.
2021 Mame-Loshn: Yiddish - Body - Language, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland. Curated by
Drorit Gur-Arie & Tal Schwartz.
2021 Skein: New Acquisitions for the Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Israeli Art Collection, Tel
Aviv Museum. Curated by Dalit Matatyahu. Assistant Curator: Amit Shemma.
2021 Are there Prophets in their Hometown? Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery. Curated by
Keren Weisshaus.
2021 Fairytales, Sapir Academic College, Sderot. Curated by Sally Haftel-Naveh.
2019 The Seer and the See, Azrieli Gallery, Jerusalem. Curated by Tal Schwartz & Roie
Ravitzki
2019 The Larva Society for Psychical Research, Artists’ House, Jerusalem. Curated by Tali
Bin Nun & Sally Haftel-Naveh.
2019 Non Non Fiction, The Villa Gallery, Jerusalem.
2019 Zumu, Hatzor Haglilit.
2018 To Take Some Air, Yefe Nof Gallery, Haifa.
2018 A Good Head, The Farm Gallery, Holon. Curated by Guy Morag.
2018 Seven Rituals to Change the Mood, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Avi
Lubin.Change the Mood, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2017 From a village you are and to a village you will return, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod.
Curated by Raafat Hattab.
2016 Openning of the Red House, Red House Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2016 Group Exhibit, Artist' House, Tel Aviv.
2016 Isis Secrets, Pass-Port Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Liav Mizrahi.
2015 Local Pulse, Artists' House, Tel Aviv. Curated by Orly Hoffman.
2015 And the Winners Are..., Tel Aviv Museum for Art, Tel Aviv.
2015 Baggage, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin. Curated by Hagar Bril (Raban).
2014 Mazal U'Bracha, Beit Hatfutsot Museum, Tel Aviv. Curated by Carmit Blumensohn.
2014 Graven Image, The Russian Museum of Ethnography, Saint Petersburg. Curated by
Dina Yakerson.
2014 Ov, Meshuna Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2013 Tattoos, Ben-Gurion University Art Gallery, Beer Sheva.
2013 In between, The Art Gallery, Nazareth.
2013 To the edge, Ben-Gurion University Art Gallery, Beer Sheva.
2013 Lip Service, Hahava Gallery, Holon. Curated by Guy Morag.
2013 Hamangalistim, Hahava Gallery, Holon. Curated by Guy Morag.
2013 Cave, The Passage Gallery, Haifa University, Haifa.
2013 Sacred or Sacrilege?, The Open University Art Gallery, Raanana. Curated by Alec
Mishory.
2013 Like Animals, Artist's House Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Haim Maor.
2012 The Left Hand, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Menachem
Goldenberg & Galili Shachar.
2012 Vermin, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Carmela Weiss.
2012 Kirya, Independent Art project, Tel Aviv.
2012 Play Me I'm Yours, Art project in the streets of Tel Aviv.
2012 Ash Layla, Jaffa streets, Jaffa. Curated by Dana Gilerman.
2012 Portraits of Cain, Ben-Gurion University Art Gallery, Beer Sheva.
2012 Good Intentions, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Ofra Harnam.
2011 Housework, Beeri Gallery, Beeri Kibutz.
2011 Holiness & Profane, City Gallery, Jerusalem.
2011 Life, Birth & Rebirth, Julie M. Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2011 Hilula, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2011 The Next Community, Haifa Museum, Haifa. Curated by Yeala Hazut.
2010 Voodoo Time, Minshar Gallery for Contemporary Art. Curated by Meital Raz.
2010 From Gutter to Glory, Shaphdan, Rishon Le'zion. Curated by Galia Yahav.
2009 Wild exaggeration, Haifa Museum, Haifa. Curated by Tami Katz Freiman.
2009 Young Israeli Art, Bremen Project – Part II, Dolinger Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2009 Drama of Identities, Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv.
2009 X-File, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2009 Look at Me, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2009 The End of It is Up Pyramid Gallery, Haifa.
2009 The Natural History Museum, Petach Tikva Museum for Contemporary Art. Curated
by Revital Ben Asher Peretz.
2008 Neuse Sehen-Young Israeli Art, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor , Bremen & Vorwerk - Centre for Contemporary Art , Syke, Germany
2008 Yelling At Your Environment, Harrington Art Gallery, San Francisco,
California, USA.
2008 The Big Territory, Agora Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Sari Golan.
2007 Self Portrait, Kabri Art Gallery, Kabri Kibbutz.
2007 In&Out, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 Scar, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Maayan Shelef.
2007 Bellezza Pericolosa, Napoli Museum for Art, Italy.
2007 Dangerous Beauty, The Chelsea Art Museum, New-York, USA.
2006 Disruptions, Petach Tikva Museum for Contemporary Art, Petach-Tikva. Curated by
Yehudit Matzkel.
2006 Sickness Report, The Art Gallery of Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva.
2006 Story Tellers, The Art Gallery of Haifa University, Haifa. Curated by Ruti Direktor.
2006 Faces, Pyramid Gallery for Contemporary Art, Haifa.
2006 Men, Museum for Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan. Curated by Sagi Refael.
2005 Whores, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curated by Doron Rabina.
2005 Julie M. Gallery. Tel Aviv.
2004 Childhood Drawers, City Gallery for Art, Rehovot. Curated by Ora Kraus.
2002 Prizes in Art & Design from the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, Helena
Rubinstein Pavilion (Tel-Aviv Museum of Art), Tel-Aviv
2002 Artic 4, Tel-Aviv University’s Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2002 In Their Own Eyes, Julie M. Gallery. Tel Aviv.
2001 Artic 3, Tel-Aviv University’s Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
2001 Where Have the Grandpa disappear to?, Pyramid Gallery, Haifa.
2001 Plaster, Pyramid Gallery, Haifa.
2001 The Art Department Graduates, Interim Gallery, Haifa University.
2000 New Faces, The Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel-Aviv.
1999 Winners of “Hecht” Award for young artists, Hecht Museum, Haifa.
1999 P.Q – Prague Quadroanelle, Prague .