Biographical Notes עברית
Avshalom Levi
Multidisciplinary creator, and Israeli artist engaged in Photography, Video Art and Painting, Additionally, I share my expertise as a guest lecturer at colleges, focusing on photography. My artistic focus revolves around marginalized communities and shaping Israeli social awareness. In 2015, I released the artist's book "No Man's Land", featuring six series with potent social themes, including black panthers, prostitutes, drug addicts, homeless individuals, as well as portraits and personal testimonies from Holocaust survivors. My works has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and art collections both in Israel and internationally.
Biographical Notes
Born in Jerusalem, 1959.
Lives in Tel Aviv
1987 -1989 - Hadassah College, School of Photography, Jerusalem.
1991 -1992 - video and cinema, Hadassah College, School of Photography, Jerusalem
1989 -1990 - lived and worked in London, England.
1992 -1997 - lived and worked in Paris, France.
1998 - today lives and works in Tel Aviv
Exhibitions
1989 The founding generation of Musrara / Hadassah College
1993 The street of Belleville / Paris Port Ouvert Events
1994 Portraits / Paris Port Ouvert Events
1995 Graffiti / Belleville / Paris Port Ouvert Events
1996 The Shadows of Belleville / City Hall 20th quarter / Paris
2009 Tel Aviv by Night / 100 years to the city of Tel Aviv
2013 Merhav Bazman - portraits of the Israeli black Panthers Movement
founders / Merhav Gallery-Jaffa Curation: Adi Branda
2014 ‘A Forgone Conclusion’ p8 gallery Curation: Ora Reuven
2015 ' No Man's Land' - Winter 71 / Solo exhibition, in conjunction with the launch of the
artist's book 'The No Man's Land' The Musrara Social Gallery. Curation: Avi Sabag,
Eyal Ben Dov.
2015 Local Testimony Portraits of Childhood Heros / Erets Israel Museum -Tel-Aviv 2016 "Everyone has a south" The Musrara Social Gallery Curation: Eyal Ben Dov.
2016 Sliding Doors Soho Photo Gallery New York Curation: Larry Davis
2019 'Hshuma' group exhibition' Mact museum Switzerland Curation: Sharon Tuval
2022 ‘Longing for Jerusalem’ Migdal David Museum I.F.O Worldwide Exhibition.
Curation DR. Shimon Lev
2023 20 Years to Local Testimony / MUSA / The Book Exhibition and book gala Curation
Dana Wollfiler Lalkin, Vardi Kahana, Ami Stenitz
Special projects
2013 Founding the audio blog ‘Mivhakim’ / Curators, Artists and Creators talking about art.
2022 ‘Carlos in Wonderland’, directed and filmed in collaboration with playwright Hadar Galron, features the short film One Day from the Point of View of a Blind Man. This film was showcased at the Ako Theater Festival in 2022.
Awards Books Grants
Hazel Greenwald award , the founding generation of Musrara
Mifal HaPayis grant, No man's land / winter 71
3rd place best series / Local Testimony / wpo
Rabinovich Foundation grant for creative artists during the Corona pandemic.
Work in Progress
BRANDED
A series that integrates painting, mixed media, photography, a dedicated website, and scientific research on the COVID-19 pandemic. This series raises numerous questions, but the central inquiry is: Have we, as a society, been reduced to mere numbers and lines in a gigantic corporate profit scheme?
For this project, approximately 100 portraits were captured during lockdowns and isolations, each person bearing a disquieting thought manifested as a barcode projected onto their faces.
FILMS IN PROGRESS
2019- today - The Last Panther
Reuven Abergel, a co-founder of the ‘Black Panthers’ protest movement, presents poignant and powerful original texts. project of 6 short films.
2023- today - Survivors (documentary)
Boys deemed at risk enroll in the toughest and most demanding preparatory school in the Israel. The project involves a journey through the desert and concentration camps in Poland.
2023 – today - The last captain from cojimar (documentary)
Machito (Louis Abat Senti) a 93-year-old Cuban fisherman who worked as Hemingway's errand boy. The film was shot during November 2023 in Cuba