The Clearing Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht (born 1967, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli fine art photographer Ori Gersht (born 1967, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England

Ori Gersht’s monograph, The Clearing 2005.

Israeli arts movement

Conflicts in Israel Arab–Israeli War 1947 to 1949 The War of Attrition 1967 to 1970 Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon (1971-1982) South Lebanon conflict (1982–2000) 7

Publications Ori Gersht - Lost In Time Ori Gersht - Artist Book

Publications Ori Gersht - The Clearing Ori Gersht: History Repeating

Solo Exhibitions 2012 - History Repeating, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. 2012 - This Storm is What We Call Progress, Imperial War Museum, London.[3] 2011 - Lost in Time, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA 2009 - Black Box, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA 2008 - Selected Films, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA 2008 - The Forest, Musée d’Art de Toulon, Toulon, France 2008 - Pomegranate, The Jewish Museum, New York 2007 - Time After Time: Exploding Flowers & Other Matters, The Armory Show (with CRG Gallery), New York, USA 2007 - The Forest & Blow Up, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA 2006 - The Forest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2006 - The Clearing, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK 2004 - History in the Making, Photo España, Madrid, Spain 2002 - Afterglow, Art Now Room, Tate Britain, London, UK 2002 - Afterglow, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel

Group Exhibitions 2011 - Evaders & Falling Bird, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel 2011 - When a Painting Moves… Something Must be Rotten, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway 2011 - Eating Art, La Pedrera/Casa Milà, Barcelona, Spain 2010 - Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 2010 - Still / Moving, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2010 - Beijing International Art Biennale 2010, National At Museum, Beijing, China 2010 - Atlantis II, Rohkunstbau, Berlin, Germany 2010 - Paysage, Musée d’Art, Toulon, France 2009 - Hugging and Wrestling: Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, USA 2009 - Flower Power, Villa Giulia – Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Turin,Italy 2008 - Pomegranate: The Jewish Museum, New York, USA 2008 - Mutation II, Paris, Kulturprojekte, Berlin, Fotofo, Bratislave, Vladmir Und Estragon, Vienna, Association Café Crème, Luxenbourg, Musee de la Photographie, Moscou, Zone Attive, Rome 2007 - Video Killed the Painting Star, Museum of Salamanca, Spain 2007 - In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London 2007 - Single Shot, Tate Britain, London 2007 - 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands, Spain 2006 - Inside-Out: Contemporary Artists from Israel, Museum MARCO, Vigo, Spain 2006 - Forest Primeval, MOCA (GA), Atlanta, USA 2006 - Twillight: Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2005 - Dreams and Trauma, Berlin, Germany 2003 - One Ground, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA 2002 - Reality Check: Recent Developments in British Photography and Video, curated by Kate Bush and Brett Rogers, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic 2002 - Non-Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ori served as a medic during his period of mandatory service.

Recognition and awards 1990 South Bank Photo Show, London 1993 Department of Transport Art Competition, London 1997 Residency at Whitefield School, Barnet 2000 The Constantiner Photographer Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2002 Consultant to the Architectural Development Planning of the South London Gallery 2004 First Prize winner, Onfuri International, Tirana, Albania

The Mountain

Swamp

Trace

The Forest – by Ori Gersht 2005