Angelika Sher (born 1969) is a Lithuanian-born

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i photographer.

Biography

Angelika Sher was born in

Vilna Vilnius ( , ; see also #Etymology and other names, other names) is the capital and List of cities in Lithuania#Cities, largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the munic ...

, Lithuania. She

immigrated Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

to Israel in 1990. She has earned a BA degree in

radiography Radiography is an imaging technique using X-rays, gamma rays, or similar ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation to view the internal form of an object. Applications of radiography include medical radiography ("diagnostic" and "therapeu ...

and natural science from

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academi ...

, where she has studied from 1991 to 1995. In 2002–2005 Sher studied at the College of Photography in

Kiryat Ono Kiryat Ono ( he, קִרְיַת אוֹנוֹ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel. It is located east of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of . Modern Kiryat Ono is not to be confused with the biblical Ono, which was located in the ar ...

, followed by a two-year program at

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( he, בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldes ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

(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

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 The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art is one of the most important Russian cultural events and was founded in 2003. First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art The First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (January 28 – February 28, 2005) ca ...

, and in

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. 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 Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

. She won the 2009

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, Professional, 3rd Place: Fine Art—Conceptual and Constructed. Sher also engaged in photography projects with the

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and mentally-challenged people at Beit Issie Shapiro. In October 2010 a photograph from her series "Growing Down" was sold by the

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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".

Solo exhibitions

* * 2007 "My Mother's Fur Coat", Ramat Gan Museum, Israel * 2009 "Inside my Life", Reartuno gallery,

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

, Italy * 2009 "Inside my Life", Reartuno gallery, Brescia, Italy * 2009 "13", Pobeda gallery, Moscow, as part of 3d

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* 2009 "Twilight Sleep", Fotografiya gallery,

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, Slovenia * 2009 "13", Tavi Dresdner Gallery,

, Israel * 2010 "Twilight Sleep",Tavi Dresdner gallery,

, Israel * 2011 "Survival", solo show as part of Tina B Biennale at Galerie Vernon,

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* 2012 "Twilight Sleep", Camera 16,

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* 2012 "History of the Beauty", Zemack gallery,

* 2014 "Fifth Column". Zemack Gallery,

* 2015 "Disturbing Beauty". Sepia EYE Gallery,

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* 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

* 2007 "Environment Love", New Gallery Jerusalem, Israel * 2008 "Presence of the Sea", Cinema Center,

, Israel * 2008 "Dirty White", Contemporary Art Space gallery,

, * 2008 "Growing Down", Presentation of new series,

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( he, בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldes ...

, Israel * 2008 "Awakening the tiger", Contemporary Art Space Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel * 2008 "Everything is Dynamic", Tiroche Gallery, Yafo, Israel * 2008 "Goim", New Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel * 2009 Animanix Biennale 2009–2010 Venues: Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, Taipei and Kaohsiung,

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, Beijing. * 2009 1st Israeli Festival of Photography, Tel Aviv, Israel * 2009 StArt exhibition, Tel Aviv, Israel * 2009 "The Intimate Line", Sepia EYE Gallery, New York * 2010 "Moments of Home", special project with mentally challenged people, Tel Aviv port, Israel * 2010 "Survival", Tavi Dresdner Gallery,

, Israel * 2009 2010 Sony WPA World tour: Hong Kong, Tokyo, Toronto, Paris, New York, Bangkok, Mexico City, London, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur * 2010 Haifa International Mediterranean Biennale of Contemporary Art * 2011 "Photopoetica", Musrara School of Photography (Naggar School of Photography), Jerusalem * 2011 "Toys", Tel Aviv port * 2011 French Cultural Center,

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

* 2011 "Safe place", Municipal Art Gallery of Rishon LeZion * 2011 Artists' House,

* 2011 Ramat Gan Museum Israel * 2011 "The Coming Community", Haifa Museum of Art * 2012 "What is real?", ME Contemporary Art,

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, Denmark * 2013 2nd Mediterranean Biannale of Contemporary Art, Sahnin, Israel * 2014 3d International Photography Festival (Israel), Rishon LeZion, Israel * 2015 "Hiwar", The Arab Museum of Contemporary Art, Sahnin, Israel * 2017 3nd Mediterranean Biannale of Contemporary Art, Sahnin, Israel * 2017 "Odessa - Tel Aviv". International Photography Festival (Israel),

, Israel. * 2018 “Face off”
Sepia EYE gallery
NY * 2020 "Female foreignness",

Haifa Museum The Haifa Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון חיפה לאמנות, ar, متحف حيفا للفنون), established in 1951, is located in a historic building built in the 1930s in Wadi Nisnas, downtown Haifa. Ranking as Israel's third largest ...

* 2021 "Living together-crossing borders", 4th Mediterranean Biennale,

* 2022 ”One of a Kinds”,

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...

,Israel

Biography

Art career

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

See also

References

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