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Orit Hofshi

http://www.orithofshi.com/ orithofshi@gmail.com 0528225386

My practice is primarily based on drawing, and printmaking, though I frequently experiment and disregard what would be labeled as common formalistic conventions. Much of my work is focused on the relationship between nature and social occurrences, depicting an ongoing dialogue between figures and their encircling settings. I spend a great deal of time in various natural settings and am attracted to extreme and rugged landscapes and archeological sites, taking numerous photographs, which nourish my thinking and processing in the studio.

The landscapes I create are typically proposed as places occupied and unoccupied, touched and untouched. Figures appear contemporary but tend to be alienated by the surrounding landscapes. While depicted in a concrete physical contexts, the overriding sense is that their more momentous journey is an internal one.

My work process is characterized by the consistent preoccupation with the dimension of time. I am constantly searching for ways of making time palpable: personal time, the present time, historical time. Natural and human activity remnants’ time – examining these different temporal dimensions vis-à-vis the universal temporal dimension, a dimension that may exceed the limitation of human understanding. Such a realization may serve to undermine our sense of self-importance, our tendency to place our own existence at the center, our own hubris.

Curriculum Vitae 2021

Education: 1998-2002 MA Arts, University of Leeds – Bretton Hall College, Leeds, UK, 1986-1990 Graduate certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. PA, USA1981-1985 Graduate certificate, The Neri Bloomfield Haifa School of Design, Haifa.

Selected Collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Kunstsammlung im Deutschen Bundestag, Art collection of the German Bundestag ,Berlin, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Pennsylvania

Academy of the Fine Arts museum, Philadelphia, The Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, California, Yeshiva University Museum, NY,  University of San Diego, Hoehn Print Collection, USA, Swarthmore College, permanent

collection, PA, USA, China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, China, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israeli Art Collection, Discount Bank, Tel Aviv, Petach Tikva Art Museum, Israeli Art Collection, Leumi Bank, New York, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Fellowship, Philadelphia, Paul J. Gutman Library,

Philadelphia University.

Prizes and Grants: 2019 Israel Culture Minister Award for The Fine Arts. 2018 The Guanlan Residency, Shenzhen, China, Pais Grant- 2018 for residency. 2016 Artist-in-Residence- McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC, USA, Pais Grant-- for One Person Museum Show, 2013 URRA Project, Art Residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2011 From the William J. Cooper Foundation grant “Cooper Series Excellence in Arts and Letters”, Swarthmore, USA, 2010 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Prizes in Art and Design for 2010: Jacob Pins Award for Distinguished Israeli Printmaking Artist, Distinguished Alumni Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, , , Artist in Residency, USC, JAI, LA/TA Partnership, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2008 Künstlerhaus Hohenossig Printmaking Residency, Leipzig, Germany, 2006 Minister of Science and Culture Prize for outstanding in Contemporary Israeli Art, 2005 Art on Paper

Award, 79th Annual International Competition of Printmaking, The Print Center, Philadelphia, 2004 Fellow of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Residency in Ballycastle, Ireland, 1990 The P.A.F.A. Alumni Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1989 The William Emllen Cresson Traveling Scholarship,

Selected Solo Exhibition: 2019,”Pulse”, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Hazorea, "Standpoint”, “Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2018 ,“Crossing” SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018 NY, CadeTompkins projects. 2017, "Crossing”,

Danubiana Art Museum, Slovakia, "Innuendo”, Dwek Gallery, Jerusalem, 2016 "Beacon”, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2015 "The Epoch of Space", Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, "Time out of Mind", Hoch+Partner, Leipzig,

Germany, 2013 "Cessation", Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, LA, 2012 "Pharos", Locks gallery, Philadelphia, 2011

"Resilience”, List gallery, Pennsylvania, 2009 "Ephemeral Passage”, Tefen, The Open Museum, , "If the Tread is an Echo”, Gallery 39, Tel Aviv, 2008, "The Road Not Taken”, The Print Center, Philadelphia, 2006, "The Disenchanted Forest”, Anna Ticho House –The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, "Kairos”, Braverman by Art Projects, Tel Aviv, 2005,

"Datum Collectanea”, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000, Stephan Gang Gallery, New York, New York,1993 "Portraits of My People”, The Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, Philadelphia

Selected Group Exhibition : 2021, “Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale”,

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum, Philadelphia, PA , “Paradise”, Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI, 2020, “Spatial Recollections: Art from the Swarthmore College Permanent Collection and Recent Exhibitors”, The List Gallery, Swarthmore, PA “Territory of Tenderness”, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv ,

“Large Print”, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA , 2019, “Even Trees Bleed” Museum On The seam, Jerusalem, 2018, “I to Eye”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, “E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One”, CCP, Norwalk CT , “Contemporary Local Print”, Teddy Gallery, Jerusalem, “Surprise: New Acquisitions” The Janet Turner Print Museum, CA, 2017, “In the Body of the Wood”, Israel Museum Jerusalem, JPWS, “DI CARTA / PAPERMADE. International

Paper made Art Biennial, Schio, Italy, “Corpus, Mens et Anima”, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NY, Cade Tompkins Projects, 2016 “The Black Art”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2015 “Not Distant Land”, Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, 2015

“IMPRESS”, Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany, 2014 “Along the Lines of Imagination”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2013 “Traces V – Beyond Paper”, the 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem, “URRA Project”,Galeria del Infinito, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, “The Philadelphia Story, Asheville Art Museum,

“Souvenirs”, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 2012 "Encounters in Munch's space", TLV Museum of Art, "Tectonic Faults": Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Bet Mani, "Structuring Nature", Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Arkansas, 2011 "New on

Paper":, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2010 Philagrafika 2010, PAFA Arts Museum, Philadelphia, “Caught in the Thicket”, IV Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem, 2007 "Traces III”, The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem , "One and

All”, The Jerusalem Artists' House and The Israel Museum, 2006 "Disengagement”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2005 79th International Printmaking, The Print Center, Philadelphia, IPC New York, 2003 "Summer Exhibition”, Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Academic employment, appointments and Positions

2010- Current       Senior Lecturer & head of printmaking, the Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Fine Arts

2001- Current       Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication Dept. Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Fine Arts

2001 – 2011        Lecturer, Visual communication department, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon

1994 – 2011        Lecturer, Visual communication department, the Neri Bloomfield Haifa School of Design, Haifa

Guest Lecturer and Visiting Artist Program

2021 Guest lecturer ,Institute for Israeli Art, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Guest lecturer , Shenkar School of Multidisciplinary Art 2018 Friends of Dard Hunter 2018 Conference Panel, Matrices: The Social Life of Paper, Print, and Art, Panel Participants: Laura Post, Daniel Heyman, Vanessa Nieto, Orit Hofshi, University of Iowa Centre for The Book ( UICB ), USA , 2017 Keynote Speaker, International Printmaking Conference #1CY-GR, Nicosia, Cyprus , Artist Talk, Upon this Bank and Shoal of Time, The Jerusalem Print Work Shop, 2016 Guest lecturer, MFA Studio Critique, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Roman J. Witt Visiting Artists, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design ,University of Michigan, USA, 2015 Guest lecturer, AFAD, The Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Bratislava, Slovakia, Guest lecturer, MFA Studio Critique, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Rhode Island, USA Guest lecturer, Sunny Purchase College, SUNY, NY, USA, Guest lecturer, MFA Studio Critique, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2013 Guest lecturer, URRA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012. Advanced Studio Critique, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado, USA, Guest lecturer, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2011 Guest lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Guest lecturer, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA , 2010 Guest lecturer, USC Roski School of Fine Arts, California, USA, Guest lecturer, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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