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Angelika Sher

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Angelika Sher
Born
Vilna, Lithuania
NationalityIsraeli
EducationBar-Ilan University, the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono, the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Known forphotography
MovementIsraeli art, Fine Art

Angelika Sher (born 1969) is a Lithuanian-born Israeli photographer.

Biography

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Angelika Sher was born in Vilna, Lithuania. She immigrated to Israel in 1990. She has earned a BA degree in radiography and natural science from Bar-Ilan University, where she has studied from 1991 to 1995. In 2002–2005 Sher studied at the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono, followed by a two-year program at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2007–2008). Angelika Sher is married to Vladimir Lumberg, a musician and a producer of the music band "Jewrhythmics", and a mother of three. She lives and works in Israel.

Art career

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Soon after graduation from the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono, where she met Pesi Girsch, her teacher and mentor, Sher had her first solo exhibition at the Ramat Gan Museum. Sher has exhibited her photography in Israel, Italy and Denmark, at the Moscow Biennale, and in Czech Republic. A solo exhibition of her work opened in New York in January 2015. Sher also participated in Animanix Biennale and International Photography Festival in Tel Aviv. She won the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards, Professional, 3rd Place: Fine Art—Conceptual and Constructed. Sher also engaged in photography projects with the Gesher Theater and mentally-challenged people at Beit Issie Shapiro.

In October 2010 a photograph from her series "Growing Down" was sold by the Philips De Pury auction house in a New York Photography auction.

In 2014 Kehrer Verlag published a book of her work "Angelika Sher – Series, 2005–2012".[1]

Solo exhibitions

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  • 2007 "My Mother's Fur Coat", Ramat Gan Museum, Israel
  • 2009 "Inside my Life", Reartuno gallery, Brescia, Italy
  • 2009 "Inside my Life", Reartuno gallery, Brescia, Italy
  • 2009 "13", Pobeda gallery, Moscow, as part of 3d Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
  • 2009 "Twilight Sleep", Fotografiya gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 2009 "13", Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2010 "Twilight Sleep",Tavi Dresdner gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2011 "Survival", solo show as part of Tina B Biennale at Galerie Vernon, Prague
  • 2012 "Twilight Sleep", Camera 16, Milan
  • 2012 "History of the Beauty", Zemack gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2014 "Fifth Column". Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2015 "Disturbing Beauty". Sepia EYE Gallery, New York City[2]
  • 2017 “Swan Song” ( dual), Gallery 4, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2017 “Tel Aviv – Odessa” (dual), Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2018 "The Song Of Deborah", Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2019 "A Green Oak Grows in the Bay", Beeri Gallery, Israel
  • 2019 "Selected Series", The Laurie M.Tisch Gallery, New York
  • 2021 ”Egle The Queen of Serpents”, Jewish Museum of Vilna Gaon, Vilnius,Lithuania
  • 2022 "By the Window", Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv

Selected group exhibitions

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Startseite".
  2. ^ "Angelika Sher: Disturbing Beauty at sepia Eye Gallery | Musee". Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  3. ^ "International artists shun exhibition in northern Israel". Times of Israel. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Odessa–Tel Aviv". Retrieved 6 August 2018.
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