Uri Gershuni is famous Israeli photographer known to a wider public for his provocative portraits in which he confronts contrasting notions. His work is typified by formalist austerity, on the one hand, and a type of liberated thematic wildness, on the other. It challenges the viewer by juxtaposing artistic, aesthetic, and moral questions, forcing her to confront her own private values. His work frequently explores aspects of interpersonal tension or closeness generated under conditions of strangeness.
Uri Gershuni was born in Tel Aviv in 1970. He obtained his BFA and MFA from the Departments of Photography and Fine Arts at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. He has received the Young Artist Award, the Israeli Ministry of Science,Culture and Sport in 2000, the Young Photographer Award, Haifa Museum of Art in 2005, and a prize on behalf of the Heskia-Hacmun Law Firm in2007. He is also a recipient of the Local Photography Research Grant, awarded by The Shpilman Institute for Photography in 2012. Gershuni has received the grant for the publication of the artist book which accompanied his exhibition” Yesterday’s Sun” which was presented in 2012. In this exhibition Gershuni sought an absent father figure as he searched for the patriarch of photography who is at the same time his own founding father. His voyage to Lacock is an act essentially reminiscent of eschatological pilgrimage. Besides his numerous awards, Gershuni is also involved in academic capacity as he is a teacher at the department as well as at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education.
Gershuni has had solo exhibitions at the Tel-aviv museum of art, Haifa museum of art, and the chelouche gallery, Tel Aviv, among other venues, and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Gershuni published two artist books titled: day and night and yesterday’s sun. He is represented by Chelouche gallery in Israel. Among his better known projects is the Clubbers series created between 2003 and 2005.
Uri Gershuni lives and works in Tel Aviv.
| Year | Exhibition Title | Gallery/Museum | Solo/Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Apollo and the Chimney Sweeper | Israel Museum, Jerusalem | Solo |
| 2015 | Nothing but Darkness | Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv | Solo |
| 2015 | Lost Scapes | Galerie Voss, Dusseldorf. | Group |
| 2014 | Three Chambers | Jaffa, Tel Aviv. | Group |
| 2014 | Haifa Museum of Art Collection: Dynasties | Haifa Museum of Art. | Group |
| 2014 | Power of Attraction | Rosenfled Gallery, Tel Aviv. | Group |
| 2014 | Journeys | the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Kobi Ben Meir | Group |
| 2014 | Ziz Prints | Ziz Art Space, Tel Aviv. | Group |
| 2014 | The Double Exposure Project | Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv. | Group |
| 2014 | Curators: Aya Lurie | Orit Bulgaru, Anat Ascher | Group |
| 2013 | Yesterday's Sun Photography Book #1 | Ha'midrasha Photography Gallery, Beit Berl. Curator: Noa Ben-Shalom | Solo |
| 2013 | Publish | Volume gallery, Berlin, Germany | Solo |
| 2013 | The first day | 100 years gallery, London | Group |
| 2013 | Local Testimony 2013 | Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. Curator: Moran Shoub | Group |
| 2013 | Be My Guest | New Aggaf gallery, Haifa | Group |
| 2013 | The Wilderness My Brother Wanders | Social Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem Curator: Eyal Ben Dov | Group |
| 2013 | What is to Become | Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Etty Schwartz | Group |
| 2013 | The Solitary Body: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Photography | Mact-Cact | Group |
| 2013 | Museum and Centre for Contemporary Art Ticino, Switzerland. | Group | |
| 2013 | Knitted Registry, | CCA, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ruty Chinsky-Amitay | Group |
| 2013 | Surface Currents | Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Yham Hameiri | Group |
| 2013 | Young Artist Awards | Ashdod Museum of Art | Group |
| 2013 | Time After Time | Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv | Group |
| 2013 | Sacred or Sacrilege? | the Open University Gallery, Ra'anana, Curator: Alec Mishory | Group |
| 2013 | Local Pulse | Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv. Curators: Orly Hoffman, Ari Berkovich | Group |
| 2013 | Night Stamp | Beir Ha'ir, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ayelet Bitan Shlonsky | Group |
| 2013 | Statues | Hachalalit gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2012 | Eye Contact | Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv | Solo |
| 2012 | Yesterday's Sun | Solo Exhibition at Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv | Solo |
| 2012 | Negotiation | Art Israel Internet Biennial 2. Curator: Shalom Amira | Group |
| 2012 | Objects, Spaceship | Tel Aviv. Curator: Daniel Tsal | Group |
| 2012 | Teachers | Musrara, Jerusalem, Curators: Avi Sabag, Ayelet Hashahar Cohen | Group |
| 2012 | Random | BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv | Group |
| 2012 | Different Place | Dana Gallery, Kibutz Yad Mordechai. Curator: Ravit Harari | Group |
| 2012 | The Time Defined by Human Beings is But a Dream | Musrara, Jerusalem,Curator: Ilanit Konopny | Group |
| 2012 | Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art: From Astonishment to Disenchantment | Herzelia Museum, Hezrelia,Curators: Dalia Levin, Daria Kaufmann and Ghila Limon | Group |
| 2012 | Camera obscura | Space Shuttel, Tel Aviv, Curator: Hila Cohen Schneiderman | Group |
| 2012 | Remembering Boaz Tal | Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv, Curator: Sorin Heller | Group |
| 2012 | Deep Inside Dissociations | CACT - MACT Arte Contemporanea | Group |
| 2012 | Untitled | Ticino, Switzerland, Curator: Mario Casanova | Group |
| 2012 | Culture Club | Kfar-Saba's city gallery, Curator: Hadassa Gorohovski | Group |
| 2012 | Art on Buildings | Part of the Tel Aviv Artweekend events. Curator: Sagi Rafael | Group |
| 2012 | The End of the World | Meyuhas gallery, Curator: Galit Semel | Group |
| 2012 | Black box | photography festival, Tel-aviv | Group |
| 2011 | Selective mutism | Tel-aviv museum, Tel-aviv | Solo |
| 2011 | Freedom of Expression – True Colors –London 2011 | The Gallery Soho, Cube Gallery, Manchester | Group |
| 2011 | Human Landscape | Artists' House, Tel Aviv | Group |
| 2011 | Casino Ayalon | Bezalel Gallery (Salame 60), Tel Aviv | Group |
| 2011 | Noise | Bealey Melacha, Tel Aviv | Group |
| 2011 | A Road to Nowhere | Ashdod museum of art, Ashdod | Group |
| 2011 | The Beauty of Mistake | the Spaceship at Hayarkon 70, Tel Aviv | Group |
| 2011 | A Piece of Cake | artist's house, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2010 | Day and Night | Inga gallery, Tel-aviv | Solo |
| 2010 | Re-location | Chelouche art gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2010 | Be my Guest | Diaghilev, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2010 | Relocation | Tavi art gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2010 | Net Games | Baaley hamelacha gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2010 | Art Couture | Bineth gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2010 | Who is a Predator | Whcreation | Group |
| 2010 | Living room | Tel-aviv museum, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2010 | Sex-sin | Hachalalit gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2010 | Calm before the storm | Winzavod art centre, Moscow, Russia | Group |
| 2009 | Self service | Hachalalit gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2009 | Four openings in israeli art | Bezalel-Salame gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2009 | Men | Inga gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2009 | Ethics- Esthetics | artist's house, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2009 | Z-B-A | Gal-on gallery, Tel-aviv | Group |
| 2009 | Industry | mfa graduates, Hatachana, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2008 | Eventually we'll die, young israeli art of the 90's, | Herzlia museum of art, Herzlia | Group |
| 2008 | Youth | Musrara art gallery, Jerusalem | Group |
| 2008 | The homes of others | Israel museum, Jerusalem | Group |
| 2008 | Streetwise | Mishkenot shaananim gallery, Jerusalem | Group |
| 2008 | The secret viewer | Tmuna gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2008 | Snapshot | Ramleh city gallery, Ramleh | Group |
| 2008 | Click....grrrr... | Haifa univercity gallery, Haifa | Group |
| 2008 | Mama's boy | Port-house gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2008 | Flock | Bezalel-Salame gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2007 | Yad | Axel Springer, Berlin, Germany | Solo |
| 2007 | Sleep | Rishon lezion city gallery, Rishon Lezion | Group |
| 2007 | Closer | D&A gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2007 | Stills | Oranim art institute, Oranim | Group |
| 2007 | Passion | Haoman, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2007 | Desert generation | Hakibutz gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2007 | My beloved pornography | Artist's house, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2007 | City space | Photorio festival, Rio de jeneiro, Brazil | Group |
| 2007 | Boys craft | Haifa museum of art, Haifa | Group |
| 2007 | Sweet 16 | Bat Yam museum of art, Bat Yam | Group |
| 2007 | Public garden | Artist's house, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2007 | It is not Israeli Art | Tmuna gallery, Tel-aviv | Group |
| 2007 | Portraits | Artneuland gallery, Berlin, Germany | Group |
| 2006 | Department | Hmidrasha art gallery, Beit-Berl | Solo |
| 2006 | Men | Ramat Gan museum, Ramat Gan | Group |
| 2006 | After | Petach tikva museum, Petach Tikva | Group |
| 2005 | Dark Ages | sadnaot haomanim gallery, Tel-aviv | Solo |
| 2005 | Books | Israel museum, Jerusalem | Group |
| 2005 | Omanut Haaretz festival | Riding power station, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2004 | Non stop art | Sadnaot haomanim, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2004 | Reunion | Braverman gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2004 | In those days | Beit Reuvan, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2004 | Rose ce'st la vie | Tel-Aviv museum, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2004 | Marshim | Marseille art centre, Marseille, France | Group |
| 2004 | Portraits | Artspace, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2003 | Side effect | Hamidrasha gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2003 | Mother | Oranim art gallery, Oranim | Group |
| 2003 | Home | Haifa univercity gallery, Haifa | Group |
| 2002 | Behind closed doors | Herzlia museum of art, Herzlia | Group |
| 2002 | Fragile line | Um el fahem art gallery, Um el Fahem | Group |
| 2001 | Cruciferae Family | Machanyim art gallery, Machanayim | Solo |
| 2001 | Utility furniture | Line 16 gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2001 | Plastic sheet | A.A. Silver gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 2001 | Minister of culture prize for young artist | Ramat Gan museum, Ramat Gan | Group |
| 2000 | Decent Swinishness | line 16 gallery, Tel-Aviv | Solo |
| 2000 | The Phantom Menace | Hmidrasha art gallery, Beit-Berl | Solo |
| 2000 | Between the mountain and the sea | Haifa city museum, Haifa | Group |
| 1999 | I Have a Gigantic Electricity Bill Too | Hifa museum of art, Haifa | Solo |
| 1999 | Prologue | Hilton hotel, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 1999 | Emerging artists | Sotheby's, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 1997 | Ho mama | Ramat Gan museum of art, Ramat Gan | Group |
| 1997 | Winter dreamers | Nehama gallery, Tel-Aviv | Group |
| 1997 | Chosen graduates | Cooper union, New-York, USA | Group |