Chen Shapira
Shapirachen1@gmail.com
Ben-Ezra 3, Tel-Aviv, Israel
972-522-608-79
Education
2003-2005 Fellow: Mandel School for Educational Leadership, Jerusalem
1990-1991 Fresco painting studies, Vinella Fresco studio, Prato, Italy
1987-1989 M.F.A Painting, Parsons School of Design, New York
1985-1987 Art studies, New York Studio School, New York
1983-1984 Art studies, Kalisher School of art, Tel Aviv
Selected Exhibitions
2021 Schorched earth, Maya Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2020 Face of the earth, Artists House, Tel-Aviv
2016 Lines of flight, Lookout! Gallery, M.S.U, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A
2016 Mares, Yair gallery, Tel-Aviv
2011 Tiara, Muslala art Traces, Jerusalem, Mural on wall
2011 Tiaras, Yair gallery, Tel-Aviv
2011 Walls and towers, Artist studios gallery, Tel-Aviv
2011 Walls and towers, the Black Punters version, Muslala art Traces, Jerusalem.
Mural on outdoor bulletin board
2009 Sweat, Gal on gallery, Tel-Aviv
2007 Air pockets, Venta gallery, Jerusalem
2006 Open Sky, David Yallin Gallery, Jerusalem
2003 unfolding, The New Gallery, Jerusalem
Selected group exhibitions
2020 Let here be, Manifest, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A
2019 connections, Gerald Moore gallery, London
2019 archipelago, Maya Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2016 group exhibition, 10 years to Yair gallery, Yair gallery, Tel-Aviv
2016 Group exhibition, Yair gallery, Tel-Aviv
2013 Group exhibition, Yair gallery, Tel-Aviv
2012 No-man’s-land, Self-Broadcasting Council & Muslala group, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2011 Exposed nerve, Yair gallery, Tel-Aviv
2010 Talking heads, Yair gallery, Tel-Aviv
2009 Parallel Worlds, Scala Mata art space, Venice, Italy
2009 Abstract now, kayma gallery, Tel-Aviv, curator yuval kedar
2008 Edges, the New Gallery, Jerusalem
2007 Drawing Biennale 3, Artists House Gallery, Jerusalem
Scholarships and grants
2016 course grant: course “Non-Art”, Shenkar College of art, Council for higher Education, grant for community and socially engaged courses
2010-1013 course grant, for the course “Image and Reality” with Miki kratzman: Campus Community Partnership, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and ” APY Solidaridad en Acción” foundation, Spain
2005-2008 Yad Hanadiv grant: “Artist Teacher” program, “Bezalel-academy of art and design, Jerusalem.
2003-2005 Mandel Institute of Leadership Education: fellowship
2001-2003 Ministry of Education and Culture, Israel: “Artist-Teacher” award
1987-1989 Helena Rubinstein Foundation: M.F.A Scholarship, Parsons, N.Y.
Publications:
2011 “Paradigm shift”, Erev Rav: Art. Culture. Society.
http://www.erev-rav.com/archives/10653
2008 “Art as Educational opportunity, “Maarav”,
http://www.maarav.org.il/archive/classes/PUItem5873.html
Art teaching
2017-2019 Bezalel Academy of art and design, course: “Beyond the map”, selected course, History and theory department.
2014-2016 Bezalel Academy of art and design, course: “image and reality” selected course, new Interdisciplinary unit.
2015-2016 Shenkar Academy, Ramat-Gan, course: “Non-Art” Art and reality; Art in the Social and political context, Co teaching with Avital Geva. The course was awarded a course grant for the coming year 2016-2017 from the Council for higher Education of Israel
http://www.shenkar.ac.il/en/news_items/social-activism-justice-conference
2008-2014 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, course: “Image and reality, Visual Dialog. Co teaching with Miki Kratzman, Head of Photography department, Bezalel
The course “image and reality” was selected as one of the partner courses of Campus Community Partnership, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2010-2011 and received a course grant from the “APY Solidaridad en Acción” foundation
2008-2014 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, course: “Non-Art” Art and reality; Art in the Social and political context. Co teaching with Avital Geva.
Education teaching
2006-2016 Kibutzim College, Tel-Aviv, Creative Education courses
2006-2016 Kibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv, Art courses
2010-2016 Kibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv, Lecturer, tutor and instructor of education.
Socially engaged courses and projects:
2010-2016 Kibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv, teaching socially engaged courses
2010-2014 Kibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv, directing the Elementary department socially engaged courses and students practical work in the community: “Hatikva” neighborhood, Tel-Aviv
2006-2009 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Director of the program: “Excellence in Art” that brings excellent students to work with Talented and gifted young students in the Periphery. A collaborative Project of JDC Israel with the Bezalel Academy
2005-2008 Bezalel Academy of Art And Design, Founder and Director of the Program: “Artist-Teacher”, a pilot collaborative project with the Hebrew University that provides Scholarships for excelled Art students to study Art Teaching and to work in the education field as art teachers. 100,000$ grant from “Yad- Hanadiv” Foundation for the first 3 years of the project in 2006
2001-2003 Director and teacher: “Art in the Community”, collaborative Project of the Jerusalem High School for the Arts and the “Alia Center ” Jerusalem that brought together groups of immigrants students and students of the high school to learn Art and Digital Photography together. Ministry of Culture and Education “Artist Teacher” grant.
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