Tal Shochat
Tal Shochat (Hebrew: טל שוחט; born 1974) is an Israeli photographer. Early lifeTal Shochat was born in 1974 in Netanya.[1][2] She was educated at HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College from 1995 to 1999.[3] CareerShochat takes photographs of fruit trees against cloth backdrops.[4] An article on SFGate.com explained that she " cleaned every branch and leaf before shooting five fruit trees that grow in Israel - peach, almond, pomegranate, apple and persimmon - at their peak of ripeness against a black background."[5] In a review of an exhibit at the V&A, the Financial Times suggested her photographic method was comparable to David Buckland's.[4] Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, California, United States, and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, United Kingdom.[1][2] Another artwork was also held at the Art Gallery of the University of Haifa in Israel prior to its disestablishment.[3] Exhibition HistoryShochat has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as being the recipient of prestigious awards for her work.[6] One-Person Exhibitions 2017 Lessons in Time, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2017 Other Days, Petach Tikva Museum of Art 2013 License to Survive, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2012 In Praise of a Dream, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA 2011 In a Praise of a Dream, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York 2008 Sometimes it’s Cold in the Morning, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2007 Flying Ceiling, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel 2005 Awakening, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York 2005 Awakening, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2003 Queen of the Night, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 1999 Marshim series, Haifa Museum of Art Group Exhibitions 2019 Jacqueline Kahanoff: The Levant as a Parable, MUSA- Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv 2019 Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art, Towson 2018 The Desert Shall Rejoice and Blossom: Photographs by Oded Balilty and Tal Shochat, Jewish Federation of Cleveland 2018 Voyage, Rosenfeld gallery, Tel Aviv 2018 Flood, Ashdod Art Museum 2018 Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris 2018 Celebrating Israel’s 70th Anniversary: Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat, Nevada Museum of Art 2018 To The End of Land, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi 2017 Into the Wood: Trees in Photography, V&A Museum, London 2017 Home-Mother, Afula’s local city gallery 2016 The Winners: Ministry of Culture and Sport Prizes for 2015, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art 2015 Flora Palestina- Photopoetics 5, The New Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem 2015 Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in contemporary Israeli Art, Stedman gallery 2015 Rutgers – Camden, N.J (traveling exhibition) 2015 The Wandering Jew: an Artistic Reflection, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa 2015 In Different Place, Electra Tower, Tel Aviv 2015 Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) 2015 SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, The National Academy. Museum, New York 2014 Neighbors – Photographs from Israel, Tokyo Art Museum, Japan 2014 The Chicago Triangle, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel 2013 Leaving the Land of Roses, Shulamit Gallery, Venice, California 2012 Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2012 Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco 2011 Dignity and Gracefulness, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus/ Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Osnabrück, Germany 2011 Professionals, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2010 Family Files, Jewish Museum, Munich, Germany 2010 In Detail: From the Collections of Arnie Druck, Haifa Museum of Art 2009 Passing Summer, P.O.V, The Israeli Photography Festival, Tel Aviv 2009 Four Openings in Israeli Art, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2009 Ethics/ Aesthetics, Artists House, Tel Aviv 2009 Fireflies, CSB, The Curatorial Studies Program Gallery, Tel Aviv 2009 League, 100 years-101 women, 101 women artists, Amiad Center, Jaffa 2009 2009 Tel Aviv Time, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2008 Good Kids, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2008 Dead End, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2008 Stills 07-08, The Art Institute Gallery, Oranim Academic College 2008 Protected Space, The Art Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon 2008 Access to Israel: Israeli Contemporary Art, Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt 2008 Personal Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel, American University Museum, Washington 2008 Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2007 The Other Sea, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem 2007 Place Photography II, The New Gallery, Bet Gabriel on the Kinneret 2006 Raw and Cooked, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa 2006 Apropos Les Demoiselles, Petach Tikva Museum of Art 2006 Omanut Haaretz, Reading Power Station Compound, Tel Aviv 2006 Making a Scene, Haifa Museum of Art 2006 Art of Living: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco 2006 Far and Away: The Fantasy of Japan in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2006 Prizes in Art from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, 2005, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2005 Little Red Hood, DotFiftyOne Art Space, Miami 2005 Disrupted Realism, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2004 Omanut Haaretz, Reading Power Station Compound, Tel Aviv 2004 Love is in the Air: Images of Romantic Love in Contemporary Israeli Art, Time for Art – Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv 2003 Every Day, Every Year, The Art Gallery, Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel 2003 Flowers, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv 2002 Mother Tongue, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel 2001 Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art 2001 Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv 2000 Ladies and Gentlemen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2000 Arie Aroch, Pe’er Gallery, Tel Aviv 2000 Graduates at Rosenfeld, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 1999 Regarding Raffi, Nofar Gallery, Tel Aviv 1999 Graduates’ Exhibition, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park, Israel Scholarships and Awards[6]2015 The Minister of Culture and Sport’s Visual Art Award, Israel 2005 Prize for a Young Artist, The Israeli Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport Selected Collections[6]The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Haifa Museum of Art Collection The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv Shalom Shpilman Collection IDB Collection Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California[7] References
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