Ohad Matalon
Born 17.10.1972
Phone 972524465032
Address Avineri 4 Jaffa 68171 , Israel.
Mail matalonohad@yahoo.com
Short brief about this serious of works
All photographs were taken in Israel at the last 8 years.
The commitment of the works is to traditional documentary photography, as well as the kind of
promise for truth they try to maintain.
Of course most of the works were made with different levels of interference, some are using extras
and are fully stages, others are spontaneous response to situations I run into, some are half
staged. Many works were composed in the computer from 2-10 different frames I photographed of
the same situation.
The works for me, are a visual effort to draw the complex face of the Israeli identity, through the
external lines which surround the experience of "being" in this zone.
Education:
2005study for M.F.A at "Bezalel" " academy of art and design Tel-Aviv.
2003-2005 study for M.A. philosophy at the Tel-Aviv university.
1997-2001 B.F.A photography at the "Bezalel" Jerusalem.
Solo Exhibitions:
2005 Haifa museum of art.
2001 Dvir gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Selected Group exhibitions:
2007 Tribute to Rafi Lavi Midrasha gallery Tel Aviv
“Cable realease” Midrasha gallery Tel Aviv
winners of Prices from the ministry of culture Petach-Tikva Museum of Art
2006 “Laterna Magica” group photography exhibition at the Bat-Yam Museum of Art.
“The third generation” Minshar gallery Tel-Aviv.
Inhalexhale project at the The 9th international photography gathering
Aleppo Syria
“Guests” trio exhibition at “Kav 16” Tel-Aviv.
“Beheadro” group photography exhibition, “Hamidrasha”, Beit Berl.
2005 "Dash" group exhibition at the "chocolate factory" gallery London.
"Israeli contemporary photography " at the FotoGrafia in Rome.
“Jerusalem through a private lens" German & Israeli photographers at
the Jerusalem artists house and the Kunsthaus Hamburg.
“Life” Contemporary photography from Israel at the j.c.c art gallery
New York.
2004: Current visions from Israel",Group photography exhibition, contemporary
photography New-York (Andrea meislin gallery).
2003 Helena Rubinshtein Pavillion, Tel-Aviv Museum of art.[winners of "mifal
hapais" award].
2002 "Mapolet", "Bezalel" gallery Tel-Aviv.
"Kav Shavir", Um el Phahem Galllery.
New Acquisitions, Tel-Aviv Museum of art.
2001 Gallery photographers, Dvir Gallery Tel-Aviv.
Awards:
2006 “Young Artist” award from the Ministry of culture & education.
2005 Citation at the young photographer competition of Haifa Museum of Art.
2002 "Mifal Hapais" award
- 35 works in the collections of Tel-Aviv museum of art, Haifa Museum of art, Ein Hod Museum,
Mishkenot Shaananim, and the rest in private collections in Israel and Abroad.
-Live and work in Jaffa.
-Teach photography at the “Bezalel” Academy for art & design Jerusalem.