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Ori Raz:
Born in Israel in 1971, Tel HaShomer Hospital.
Relocations:
Hatzor, Ramat David, Tel Aviv, Ra’anana, Tel Aviv – Neveh Zedek, Mitzpeh Ramon, Ra’anana, Tel-Aviv, Nachmani, Ra’anana, Tel Aviv – George Elliot, Ra’anana… ???
Paid jobs from the age of 12 and until beginning work as an artist:
Newspaper route, customer service at “Carvelle” ice cream, fencing coach, sports camp counselor, art camp counselor, maintaining a flower export farm, managing a henhouse, collecting eggs in a henhouse, supporting youth in distress, integrating with delinquent communities, roof tarring, peach picking, regular military service: combat infantry soldier, military photographer, photographer at an advertising print shop, event photographer, makeup artist at summer fairs in Jaffa, acting in student films, trading light drugs, wall plastering, whitewashing, painter, gas station attendant, shark fishing in the Red Sea, lecturer for students against drug use, print shop employee, teaching painting to a hyperactive child, teaching drawing, writing poetry, writing prose, royalties from the Ministry of Defense, selling my artwork in Israel, Canada, USA, London, Australia…
1975 Studying drawing – Private lessons with Edna Givol/Coleman
1977 Studying skate hockey
1982 Studying clay sculpting – Private course
1984 Studying fencing
1984 Studying model aircraft construction
1985 First flight abroad (turning point in life)
1986 Chairman of the Alon Junior High School Student Council, Ra’anana (revoking school uniforms, reading books over the PA at recess).
1987 Wingate Institute fencing course and certificate
1987 Fourth place in the national fencing championship for cadets
1987-1989 Alon Ramat HaSharon High school, Plastic Art Major.
1988 Photography studies at the Gabi Ben Jano Studio, Ra’anana.
1990-1992 IDF service as a military photography
1991 Won the ZOA House young artist scholarship
1993-1994 Acting studies at the Nissan Nativ Studio, Tel Aviv.
1994 Publication of a poetry book “Seeing Beyond the Light” (Akad Publications, Edited by Itamar Yaoz Cast).
1995 Studies as an unregistered student in the “Bezalel” School of Art, Jerusalem
1997 Recognized as a disabled IDF soldier by the Ministry of Defense.
1997 Illustration of book cover (front and rear) – From Tragedy to Triumph by Mira Zalmack, Puma Press, Melbourne Australia
1997 Computer graphics course, Ra’anana.
1998 Won the “Creation and Living” scholarship for one year in Germany, on behalf of the German Embassy in Israel. The scholarship was not realized.
1998 Illustrating the poetry book “Touch Me Yearning” by Shuli Briskin (Gvanim Publications).
1998 Personal website – www.geocities.com/studio_nova_il
2000 Publication of prose book “The Light Blue Bereaved Mother”, Yediot Aharonot Publications (Edited by Anat Leavitt).
2002 Producing the “Broken Dream” CD, private production.
2004 Producing the “I Saw a Falcon Catch a Dove” CD, private production.
2005 Personal website – www.oriraz.com
2005 Creating conceptual displays
2005 Active member in the “Tapuz” art forum, under the handle – This Mortal Quill
2006 Personal blog writing for six months (Hof Mivtachim Kibbutz) http://oriraz.blogspot.com
2006 Begin creation of video-art
2007 Introducing a picture in The World’s Greatest Erotic Art, E.S. Publications, USA
2004-2008 Producing the “Ori Raz – Sounds of the Peripheries” CD, private production (composed lyrics and readings together with musical arrangement).
Composed Lyrics
“Gaya” – Composed by Galia Sagi
“Ireland” – Composed by Galia Sagi
“Suddenly on a Train” – Composed by Galia Sagi
“Standing at a Window” - Composed by Galia Sagi
“Eternity” - Composed by Galia Sagi
“My Shelley” – Composed by Alon Hillel
“Little Drummer Girl” – Composed by Yuval Havkin
“Jacques You’re Not Alone” – Composed by Jacques Brel
“The Quiet of the Waves” – Composed by Alon Hillel
“Tamir’s Song” – Composed by Alon Hillel
1997-2009 Concurrent writing of several yet unpublished (and perhaps never published) books:
“Trial of the Final Artist”
“You shall take no God in place of me”
“Stories from Uncle Sam”
“Daphne’s Loss”
“Reminding Myself to Stand Erect”
“Carried Away”
“I Saw a Falcon Catch a Dove”
“The Bonfire”
“30 Million Dollars”
“Artist Book”
Group Exhibitions
Yad LeBanim, Ramat HaSharon – 1987
Yad LeBanim, Ra’anana – 1988
ZOA House – 1990, 1991.
Akad Gallery – 1994
Nama Gallery – 1994
Alternative Space, 4 Bar Yochai St. Tel Aviv (Urbanism) – 2003
Notzar Theater (Women Power) – 2003
Dungeon (Passion) – 2003
Lialy Coffee Shop, German Quarter, Haifa (Art is my language) – 2003
Tel Aviv Port (the Dock) as part of the “ELI” Project (Artists for Children) – 2003
Azrielli Shopping Center, “ELI” Project (Urbanism) – 2003
Notzar Theater (New Memories) – 2003
Matter – Exhibition Space, Tel Aviv Neveh Sharet Country Club (Skin) – 2005
Matter – Exhibition Space, Tel Aviv Neveh Sharet Country Club (Sand) – 2006
Matter – Exhibition Space, Tel Aviv Neveh Sharet Country Club (Cloth) – 2006
ZOA House GEBO Gallery (Mask – Identity) – 2007
Hanita Museum (Transparent Children) – 2007
“Shorashim” Gallery (marketing event for the Bank Leumi collection) – 2007
“Ahuzat Bait” Gallery (Freedom) – 2007
“Basis” Gallery, Beit Yannai (Transparent Children) – 2007
Water Tower Gallery, Nahariya (Transparent Children) – 2007-2008
Matter – Exhibition Space, Tel Aviv Neveh Sharet Country Club (Light) – 2007
Jerusalem Artists’ Home (Desert Generation) – 2007
HaKibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv (Desert Generation) – 2007
Meneer de Wit Gallery, Amsterdam Holland (Desert Generation) – 2007
Meneer de Wit Gallery, Amsterdam Holland (United Civilians for Peace) – 2007
Wandering exhibition of The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today in Miami, FL, USA – 2007.
Wandering exhibition of The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today in Los Angeles, CA, USA – 2008.
Wandering exhibition of The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today in New York, NY, USA – 2008.
Wandering exhibition of The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today in Amsterdam, Holland – 2008.
Wandering exhibition of The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today in London, England – 2008.
Solo Exhibitions
Amalia Arbel Gallery – “Microscopic Retrospective – Curator: Amalia Arbel – 1995.
(First exhibition of its kind in Israel, color Xerox photocopying techniques).
Yad LeBanim, Ra’anana – “Visual Moments – Accidental Diary” – Curator Orna Pichman – 1997
(First exhibition of its kind in Israel, scan print techniques).
Nova Studio, Rishpon “What do I have behind my back?”, Curator: Ori Raz – 2000
Lialy Coffee Shop, Haifa “The Link is Technical” – Curator: Ziv Peleg Ben Ze’ev – 2003.
Titan Tel Aviv “Abstract Images” – Curator: Ella Maman – 2004
Igal Alon Genossar Art Gallery – “Time Travel” – Curator: Nava Shoshani – 2005
Gallery on the Pond – Ra’anana Park – “Eclectic Improvisations” – Curator: Orit Lotringer – 2005.
Gallery on the Pond – Ra’anana Park – "Painting and Photographing in a Pixel" – Curator: Orit Lotringer – 2008.
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Read Ori Raz's statements regarding some of his works >>
"Heavenly and Earthly – Desecrating the Jewish Aesthetic"
"Ashes to Ashes"
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