Artist Biography

Born in Israel, 1975.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Education
2002 - 2004
MFA, Hunter College Art School, New York, USA

1997 - 2000
BFA, Beit-Berel College – School of Art, Kfar Saba, Israel, Magna Cum Laude

Solo Exhibitions
2021
Ofri Cnaani | Statistical Bodies, curated by Miguel Amado, Sirius Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland

2019
We, Work, curated by Dr. Galia Bar-Or and Yaniv Shapira, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Frequently Asked, performance, Sir. John Soane Museum, London, UK

2018
For Her Own Good, curated by Sala-Manca Group and Shirli Bahar, Mamuta Art and Media Center, jerusalem, Israel
All in the Family, curated by Shaked Golan, Ben Gurion University Gallery, Beer-Sheva, Israel
No Data Is An Island, performance, Theatro Massimo, Cagliari, Italy
Some people want to run things, other things want to run, video performance with Fabrice Mzaliah, organized by the Goethe Institute's performing Architecture program, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy

2017
Drawing of Drawing Sessions, performance, Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York, USA
Yes, Yes, Yes. But, performance, organized by BHQFU and Endless Edition, Brooklyn Art Book Fair, New York, USA

2016
Compare + Contrast, performance, Tel Aviv Museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
Help DesK: Equity Exchange Marathon-performance, Equity Gallery, New York, USA

2015
Ofri Cnaani: File Under: ?, Equity Gallery, New York, USA
Help Desk, Equity Gallery, New York, USA
Recalculating Route, Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
Frequently Asked / Que lugar é esse?, Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
Ofri Cnaani: File Under?, Equity Gallery, New York, USA
Ofri Cnaani: Wrong Tools, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA
Seven Words –performance- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
A Night of Philosophy – performance- Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, New York, USA

2014 
⌘D (Command+Duplicate), non-stop performance, (Off)icielle FIAC, Paris, France
Not I, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy 

2013 
Seven Words, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Moon Guardians, Public projection at Gansevoort Plaza, Meatpacking District, produced by More Art, New York, USA
Sfar, Israel National Library, Jerusalem, Israel

2012
Special Effects, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA
The Sota Project, Fisher Museum of Art at USC, Los Angeles (CA), USA
The Sota Project, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy

2011
Public Notice: An Exhausted Film, BMW GUGGENHEIM LAB, NYC performance by Ofri Cnaani, Cheryl Kaplan and Kathryn Alexander
The Sota Project, Rothschild 96, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Sota Project, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Three Acts of Betrayal, lecture-performance by Ofri Cnaani and Hadas Cohen, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2010
The Vanishing Woman, Live-cinema performance at PS1/ MoMA(as part as Greater New York Performance Program), New York, USA
Manja, The Bialik House, Tel Aviv, Israel

2009
Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums (10 sites in 10 different museums), Italy
Ofri Cnaani, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy
Tale of Ends, Le Poisson Rouge, New York, USA

2007
Two Dimensional Days, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue)
Decreation, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2006
Death Bed, curated by Ilana Tennbaum, The Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (catalogue)

2005
The Blind Scenario, curated by Claudia Zanfi, Pack Gallery, Milan (catalogue)
The Colonel and I, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

2004
WE, MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York, USA
The Sun Still Shines, Pack Galleria, Milan, Italy

2003
The Black & White Theater, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Art Focus 4, curated by Yigal Zalmona and Susan Landau, Jerusalem, Israel
Patrol, curated by Dalia Levin, The Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel

2002
Ofri Cnaani – Dror Daum, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2000
Waiting Room, Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Group Exhibition (selected)
2021
Measures of Closeness : The Contactless Condition, curated by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, Austrian pavilion - 17th International Biennale of Architecture 2021, Venice, Italy

2019
Running in Circles, curated by Alma Mikulinsky, Parallel, Toronto, Canada
To Sculpt a Building, curated by Omer Frank and Smadar Schindler, Atelier Shemi, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
The Metrolopis and Mental Life, curated by Oz Zloof, Afula Municipal Gallery, Afula, Israel
Zumu 3 - Hatzor Haglilit, curated by Milana Gitzin-Adiram and Ruth Oppenheim, Zumu on the Move, mobile museum 
More Art in the Public Eye: A Book Launch, Reading and Performances, presented by More Art in Collaboration with the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, The 8th Floor Gallery, New York, USA
Schoooooool With Many Holes, Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Over Realism Conference, performative convention, Bio Rex Theater, Helsinki, Finland
We, Work (shirt), curated by Galia Bar-Or, as part of Social Bauhaus, Hadar neighborhood, Haifa, Israel

2018
Body in Alliance. On Human Condition, curated by Micaela Deiana, Mgallery - Theatro di Sardegna, Cagliari, Italy
Fog x FLO: Fujiko Nakaya on the Emerald Necklace and the fog performances series, curated by Jen Mergel, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Boston, United States

2017
Trait Pour Trait: Portrait of the Museum, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
Survey 2: The Boundaries of Normal, curated by Cat Pena, AMUM-Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis (TE), USA
The Female Side of God, curated by Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Michaela Feurstein-Prasser, Jewish Museum Hohenems, Hohenems, Austria

2016
Art School Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts at Seventy, curated by Avi Lubin, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tribeca Art Night(artist's walk), Tribeca, New York, USA
HOME(WARD), Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, USA
A night of philosophy - Helsinki Festival, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Polaris, BAXTER ST at CCNY, New York, USA
Command + Duplicate, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
1x1x1, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
From Inside and Out, The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel Mass Hysteria, Central Booking, New York, USA
Cut-Up: Contemporary Collage and Cut-Up Histories through a Feminist Lens, Franklin Street Works, Stamford (CT), USA

2015
Contact Point, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Crippled Symmetry, Mana Contemoporary, Jersey City (NJ), USA
Aurora 2015, Dallas Art District, Dallas (TX), USA 

2014
Chicago Triangle: Art - Women - Dialogue, curated by Ruti Director, The Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Mana Monumental, Mana Contemporary Miami, Miami (FL), USA 

2013
Israel Now: Reinventing the Future, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy
Israel Now: Reinventing the Future, MANA Contemporary, New York, USA
Quarantine, curated by Neta Gal Atzmon, Hansen Compound, Centre for Design, Technology and Media, Jerusalem, Israel

2012
Anima Viscera, Galleria Marie–Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society, curated by Judy Brodsky and Ferris Olin, Princeton University and Rutgers University (NJ), USA / Galleria Marie–Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy 
Video works from Hamidrasha Art School, curated by Giorgia Calò, Doron Rabina, and Ben Hagar, MLAC - Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporanea, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Accelerating Toward Apocalypse, Works from Doron Sabag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010
Handhald Histories, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Corsiedpondense, Bezalel Academy Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Longitude & Latitude, curated by Taly Cohen-Garbuz, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 
Finzioni-videoracconti contemporanei, curated by Paola Nicita, Museo Internazionale delle Marionette Antonio Pasqualino, Palermo, Italy
Looking In, Looking Out, curated by Hagit Alon, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Rupture and Repair, curated by Emily Bileski, The Adi Foundation and The Israel Museum, Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel
Metamorphoses: Error, Ofri Cnaani, Tamar Halpern and Vlatka Horvat, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ecstasy, The former convent of St. Cecilia’s P 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2009
FORUM DES IMAGES, curated by Marie Shek, Nuit Blanche in Paris, Paris, France
The Situation, curated by Elizabeth M. Grady, The Moscow Biennial (special project), Moscow, Russia
Wild Exaggeration, curated by Tami Katz-Frieman, The Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Fresh Fruits, Ten Haaf Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008
Video Zone, The 4th International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel
A Re-reading of the future, curated by Danna Taggar, ITCA 2008 – International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, curated by Amitai Mendelson and Efrat Natan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
LOOP, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Mexico NewYork Paris, Estación Indianilla Centro cultural, Mexico City, Mexico

2007
Playing with Solitude, curated by Tal Yahas, Ursula Blickle Videolounge at the Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, Austria
Port-City, curated by Tom Trevor, Arnolfini Foundation Museum, Bristol, United Kingdom
Storytellers, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, Castello Dell’Acciaiolo, Scandicci (FI), Italy
The Space Between, curated by Drorit Gur Arie, The Petach Tikva Museum, Petah Tikva, Israel
Bat Yam Museum, curated by Neta Gal-Atzmon, Bat Yam, Israel
Art and Urban Practices - New City - Territories, Venice, Italy

2006
Disengagement, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Floating Symmetry, Going Public ’06- Atlante Mediterraneo, Nicosia, Cyprus
I Cant quite Place It, curated by Elizabeth M. Grady, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York, USA
LOOP, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain

2005
AIM 25, Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA
ARCO 05, Madrid, Spain

2004
Going Public 04: maps, confines, new geographies, curated by Claudia Zanfi, aMAZE cultural lab, Modena, Italy
Visionaries, Makor Art Center, New York, USA
Video:1Min:1800 Frames, City without Walls, Newark (NJ), USA

2003
Artik 5, American – Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, Ramat-Gan Museum, Ramat-Gan, Israel

2002
The Kiss, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2001
Action Express, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Graduate Exhibition, Beit Berl-College-School of Art – "Midrasha", Kfar Saba, Israel
Artik 3, American – Israeli "Sharett" Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, University Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
VideoTrip, Video Art Nightly Project, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Awards, publications and Fellowships
2019
We, Work, Finalist in the Experimental Film and Video Art section, Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem, Israel

2018
If, Then...Else: museum guide, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art | Hertsliya, Israel

2007
HBI Research Award, Hadassah- Brandeis Institute, Waltham (MA), USA
Six Point Fellowship, New York, USA

2005
AIM – Artist In the Marketplace, Fellowship Program, The Bronx Museum, New York, USA

2003 - 2004
America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Overseas Graduate Scholarship, New York, USA / Tel Aviv, Israel

2000 - 2001
America-Israel Cultural Foundation, New York, USA / Tel Aviv, Israel
Beit-Berel College – School of Art, Certificates of Honor for Artistic Excellence, Kfar Saba, Israel

1999
The Germany Foundation, Certificate of Honor for Academic Excellence, Rosenheim, Germany

1998
Beit-Berel College – School of Art, Certificate of Honor for Academic Achievements, Kfar Saba, Israel