Shirley Wegner
Born Tel Aviv, Israel
1997-2016 New York. Based in Tel Aviv since 2016
Education
2002 MFA, Yale university School of Art
1998 BA, Painting and Art History, SUNY Empire State College, New York, NY
1997 New York Studio School, New York, NY
1994 Hamidrasha Beit-Berl, School of Art, Israel
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 The Mechanics of Sloughing, The Moshava Museum, Mazkeret Batya
2019 The Unphotographed, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017 Maa’se Mekabah / The Act of Assembly, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 "paintings", Farideh Cadot Gallery, Paris, France
2013 New Works, Farideh Cadot Gallery, Paris, France
2012 Two Times Gray, Slag Contemporary, New York, NY
Landscape Anomalies, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Rock – Pile – Scissors, Dana Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel
2009 Construction Site, Islip Art Museum, part of In Process at The Carriage House, Islip, NY
2007 On Landscape, Gray, and other geographies, Museum Goch, Germany (Cat.)
Gray Area, Habres + Partner Gallery, Vienna (Cat.)
Inbetween, Zwischenraum space, Düsseldorf
2006 sight site unseen, Theatergalerie of Museum X, Mönchengladbach, Germany
sight site unseen, Theatergalerie of Museum X, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Good Morning Sunshine, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Holes Opened in the Rhythm of Time, Musrara Gallery, Jerusalem, curator S. Friedman
2022 This Order, Agam Museum, curated by Tal Bechler
To Be Continued - Seriality in Contemporary Art, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Blazing Sun, Artspace Tel Aviv, curator Shira Friedman
The Day After, Azrielli Gallery at Haddasah College, Jerusalem, curator Tali Kayam
2021 Central Terminal #1, Haifa, curator Shirley Meshulam, Pyramida Art Center, Haifa
2020 Modell-Naturen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, curator Dr. Marie Christine Jádi
Award Recipients, Ministry of Culture awards 2017-2018, Ashdod Museum of
Contemporary Art, Israel
Greenville, curated by Ravit Harari, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ramat Hashron
Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curated by Nitza Perry
2019 Modell - Naturen in der Zeitgenössischen Fotographie, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning, DE
Photography, In Fact, curated by Yair Barak, Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi’in, Israel
2018 Voyage, Rosenfeld Gallery
Pillar of Cloud, Hermann Struck Museum, HMA, Haifa, Israel
Lecturer - Creator, Shenkar Multidisciplinary Arts dept. 2017 Award winners,
Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv
2017 Field Theory, Weitzmann Institute, Weissman Building of Physical Sciences gallery
Flyers/ Flugblätter, Kunstverein Künstler Gut Loitz, Germany
2016 Der Himmel Ist Blau - The Sky Is Blue, de DROM e.V., Kröpelin, Germany
2015 Out of Sight, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Remembering Things Past, Islip Museum of Art, New York
Vestiges, BAC Galerie, Montreal, Canada
2014 Paris-Photo Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, Farideh Cadot Gallery, November 2014
Remembering Things Past, Art Council Gallery, Patchogue, NY
Here and Now, LIMarts, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY
2012 Dust in the Machine, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Connected-Verbunden, Deutsch-Israelische Kulturtage, Kröpelin, Germany
2011 Insights - Ten years of collecting, Museum Goch, Germany
In Process, OMNI Gallery, Uniondale, NY
Kammerspiele, Mischpoke e.V., Mönchengladbach Germany
2010 Sweat Dreams, The Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Residency Artists, New Work in handmade paper by artists in Workspace Program, Dieu Donne’ Gallery, New York, NY
Short cuts prolongated, Habres + Partner Gallery, Vienna
Art Athina, International Art Fair, Habres + Partner Gallery, Greece
Maco art fair, Contemporary Art Fair, Habres + Partner Gallery, Mexico City
2008 From Punk to Pink, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY
Art Athina, International Art Fair of Athens, Habres + Partner Gallery, Greece
Maco, Contemporary Art Fair, Habres + Partner Gallery, Mexico City
2007 Aqua Art Miami, Habers + Partner Gallery, Miami, FL
Connected, Altes Museum, BiS-Zentrum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2006 c/oncerning mg, Altes Museum, BIS-Zentrum Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Close Connections, Video Program Art Amsterdam 2006, Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands, May 4
Home Base, 126 Greenpoint Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Seeing Elsewhere, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Education Alliance, New York, NY
Wandering, Makor Steinhardt Gallery, New York, NY
Do You Think I’m Disco?, Longwood Arts Project, New York, NY
2005 Performa 05 Radio, from: High Desert Test Sites, WFMU 91.1 FM
2004 High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA
Strange Animal, L A C E, featured in Free Radio High Desert Test Sites, LA, CA
Endure, B.K. Smith Gallery, Cleveland Ohio
Slice and Dice, SVA Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY
2003 Young Israeli Artists: The Jacques and Eugenie O'Hana Collection, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Affirmative Action, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Control, Escape, Delete, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
2002 The Land of Shadow, The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Artnew York, Ort Kunstraune Auf Zeit, Lintz, Austria (Cat.)
Works by Yale MFA 2002 Painters, Battell Estate Gallery, Norfolk CT (Cat.)
Selected Awards, Residencies and Fellowships
2023 Artist in residence, Hamoshava historic Museum, after Eran Shamir, Mazkeret Batya, Isarel
2017 Ministry of Culture Award, Israel
Distinguished Artist studio stipend and award, Absorption Ministry of Israel
2012 Artis Professional Development Workshop Grant (with Creative Capital), New York, NY
Mifal Ha’pais, exhibition grant Rock – Pile – Scissors, Dana Gallery, Yad Mordechai, Israel
2009 Islip Art Museum, Winter Residency program at the Carriage House, Islip, NY
2008-09 Workspace Program Residency, Dieu Donne’, New York, NY
2007 Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Friends of Art, Vienna, (Privately sponsored live/work residency/ Gray Area exhibition)
2006 Josef und Hilde Wilberz – Stiftung (Studio Residency and Stipend), The city of Mönchengladbach, Germany
Makor Artists-in-Residence, New York, NY
2005 The Ronnie Heyman Award for Emerging Visual Artist, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, NY
Tiffany Award Nomination
2002 Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Prize for Excellence, Yale University School of Art, New haven, CT
Finalist for The Alice Kimball Traveling Fellowship, Yale University2001
Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, Yale University School of Art, Norfolk, CT
1999 Honorable Mention, Heckscher Museum of art and The Art League of Long Island, Huntington, NY
Selected Press, Catalogues and Publications
2015
Henri-Francois Debaillux, “Shirley Wegner L’illussioniste,” Les Journal Des Arts, July 3, 2015
2014
Robert Bernier, “The Certainty of Doubt,” Parcours Magazine, No. 80, 19-23, Montreal, Canada (French/English)
Ravit Harari, “Ashes and Dust: a curated exhibition on paper,” Nisha Magazine of Design, 68, Tel Aviv, Israel (Hebrew)
Markus Ambach and Birgit Jensen, WG/3ZI/K/BAR, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany, 192-193, 2014
2013
Claire Guillot, “La guerre pour de faux,” Le Monde Cultural Magazine, November 2, 2013
Ravit Harari, “Scattegories: a curated exhibition on paper,” Nisha Magazine, 72, December 2013, Tel Aviv, Israel
Brigitte Ollier, “Shirley Wegner, L’appret Guerre,” La Liberation, November 8, 2013
Karin Levit, “Outside the Frame,” Haaretz Gallery Magazine, September 24, 2013
Thomas Ivernel, “Exposition Shirley Wegner: un bruit silencieux,” http://mexxcity.com
Eloise Gouby, “some/ art: shirley wegner/ landscape anomalies,” December 16, www.someslashthings.com
2012
Editor’s Choice – opening exhibition, Time Out Tel Aviv, October 11, p 76, Israel (Hebrew)
Dana Gilerman, “The most Israeli landscape is the one created in my studio,” Calcalist Magazine, Israel, September 5
Erev-Rav Online Magazine, “Working from Blankness,” Yonathan H. Miashal interviews Shirley Wegner, October
NY Arts Magazine, “In Conversation: Paul Black interviews Shirley Wegner,” Vol. 19, June
Nurit Asiag, “Imitating Reality in Tel Aviv,” in recommended exhibitions, City Mouse, Haaretz News, September 13 (Hebrew)
Paul Weideman, “Infrastructuralism, Dust In The Machine at CCA,” Pasatiempo Magazine, November 23
Hannah Hoel, “CCA’s Dust in the Machine Asks If Then Is Now, But Quietly,” Adobe Airstream, October 10
2011
Nisha Magazine, “Open House: On The Concept of Home in Contemporary Israeli Art. One Artist a month: Shirley Wegner,” by Ravit Harari, issue 113, 80-84, June (Hebrew)
Armin Kaumanns, “Paradiesische Kammerspiele,” Rheinische Post, D5, January 28, 2011
2009
Sedek Magazine, Issue no. 4, July, Israel, pp 50-56; 57- 63
2008
Exhibition Catalogue, “On Landscape, Gray and other geographies”, Shirley Wegner, Museum Goch, Germany
“Shirley Wegner: Aerial Views”, The Mix, Issue no. 15, Vienna, pp 25-27
2007
Karen Bookatz, ”Agit-Propaganda: Muti-Media Artist Shirley Wegner,” Heeb Magazine, Love Issue, no. 12
“Graue Erinnerungen”, Der Standard, July 26, 2007
2006
Orly Shevi, “On Landscape, Construction, and Memory: Two New Works by Shirley Wegner”, Ante magazine, Oblivion, Issue no. 4, January
Seeing Elsewhere, Shoshana Dentz, Shirley Wegner, Julie Weitz, Exhibition Catalogue, Education Alliance Gallery, New York, NY
Jens Krohn, ”Kunstlerin inszeniert Grenzschauplatze: Die Atelierstipendiatin Shirley Wegner stellt Fotos und Installationen in Der Theatergalerie aus”, Westdeutsche Zeitung, November 25, 2006, Germany
Von Dirk Richerdt, “Stille Szenarien der Apkalypse”, Rheinsche Post, November 25, 2006, Germany
Armin Kaumanns, “Auf der Suche nach dem verschwundenen Bild: Die Fotografin Shirley Wegner ist die neue Atelierstipendiatin der Stadt”, Westdeutsche Zeitung, June 21, 2006, Germany
Von Dirk Richerdt, “Fotos Malerisch Inszeniert,” Rheinsche Post, June 22, 2006, Germany
Holland Cotter, “Do You Think I’m Disco”, Art in Review, The New York Times, February 3, 2006
Matthew Baigell, Jewish Art in America: an Introduction, pp 166-168, Rowman and Littlefield publishing, 2006
Performa 05 Radio, WFMU 91.1 FM: Free Radio High Desert Test Site, November 20, 9-10pm
Heeb magazine, “The Heeb Hundred”, Issue no. 8, July 2005, p 43
Mark Meszoros, “Artists Endure”, The News-Herald, August 20, 2004, p. A8
Jitka Hejtman, “New Trends: Shirley Wegner”, Fotograf Magazine, Transforming Symbols, No. 3, Vol 2, Prague 2003, p 87
2003
Hamidrasha, "War", Issue no. 6, June, Israel, pp 6-9
Young Israeli Artists: The Jacques and Eugenie O'Hana Collection, Exhibition Catalogue, p 72, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2001
Works by MFA 2002 Painters, Cat. Yale University, Art Division Norfolk CT
Public Collections
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, The Jacques and Eugenie O'Hana Collection
The Goch Museum, Goch Germany
Atelier Stipendium of Mönchengladbach, Germany
The Hiltrud Neumann Collection, Germany
The Susman Family Art Foundation, CA, USA