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Toony Navok

Biographical Notes

Born in Tel Aviv, 1974

Lives and works in Tel Aviv

 

1995-99 - Department of Visual Communications, The Neri Bloomfield
              Academy of Design and Education (WIZO), Haifa

2004-05 - The Fifth Year Program for Young Artists, The College of 
              Technology
, Kalisher Campus, Tel Aviv

2005     - Master class: Anne Bray (USA), "Public Art in the City,"
              MFA Program
, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv

2007-09 - MFA (magna cum laude), Bezalel Academy of Arts and
              Design, Tel Aviv

2008     - Master class: Ernesto Pujol (USA-Cuba), as part of the seminar
              "(off) white city summer seminar," MFA
Program, Bezalel
              Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv
(including participation
              in Pujol's performance Tzofia in Tel Aviv)

2009     - A4 Seminar, student exchange program, Glasgow School of Art

 

One-Person Exhibitions

2009     - "Tuxedo," as part of "Industry," graduate show of the Bezalel
              MFA Program, Hatachana (The Station), Tel Aviv (curator:
              Sarit Shapira)

2006     - "Frisbee," as part of the "SAF: Project for Young Artists,"
              The Artists House, Tel Aviv (curator: Orly Hoffman)

 

Group Exhibitions

2009     - "From Laboratory to Project," Neues Museum, Weimar

            - "Universal Circus Ltd.: City Performances," ArtTLV_09: the
              2nd Tel Aviv-Yafo Biennial, Neve Tzedek Tower Complex,
              Tel Aviv (curators: Edna Moshenson and Maayan Sheleff)

            - "Rainbows & Sandstorms," Sara Asperger Gallery, Berlin

- "Snakes and Ladders," Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator:
              Sari Golan)

            - "There Must be More to It Than This," Kav 16 Gallery, Tel
              Aviv (curator: Ma'ayan Sheleff)

            - "A4," The Art Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art

2008     - "Flock," as part of the MFA Program, Bezalel Gallery, Tel
               Aviv (curator: Helen de Main)

            - "Educated," The Classroom Gallery, Ironi Hey High School
              Tel Aviv (curators: Noa Gross and Inbal Timor)

2007     - "The Rear: The 1st Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art,"
              Herzliya, Israel (curator: Joshua Simon)

            - "High Command," office building on Lilienblum Street, Tel
              Aviv (curator: Hadas Keidar)

            - "The Hidden Viewer of Israeli Art," The Art Gallery, Tmu-Na
              Theater, Tel Aviv (curator: Ma'ayan Amir)

            - "RockArt," Mishkenaot Sha'ananim Center, Jerusalem
              (curator: Sari Golan)

2005     - "Blurrr 5: The 5th Biennial of Performance Art," The Center
              for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (curator: Sergio Edelsztein)

- "Conspiracy," as part of the Fifth Year Program for Young
              Artists, The Gallery of the College of Technology, Kalisher
              Campus, Tel Aviv (curator: Gilad Ophir)

2003     - "Blurrr 4: The 4th Biennial of Performance Art," The Center for
              Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (curator: Sergio Edelsztein)

            - "Art Factory," Chelouche House, Tel Aviv (curator: Aya Zaidel)

2001     - "Artik 3: America-Israel Cultural Foundation Awards,"
              The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
            
 (curator: Sorin Heller)

2000     - "Artik 2: America-Israel Cultural Foundation Awards," The
              Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

  

Scholarships and Awards

2009     - "Excellence grant," MFA Graduate Show, MFA Program,
              Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv

2006     - Grant for a one-person exhibition, Joshua Rabinowitz
              Foundation, Tel Aviv

2001     - The Dan Zakhem Prize for the Advancement of

              Interdisciplinary Arts in Israel, Ensemble 209, Shelter 209,
              Tel Aviv

            - The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship

2000     - The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship

 

Editing and Curatorship

2009                 - Co-curator, "Herzliya 2009: The 2nd Herzliya 
                          Biennial," Herzliya

Since 2007        - Co-editor of Picnic Art Magazine, Tel Aviv
                          (with Adi Englman and Meir Kordevani)

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