Time Slice, 2005
C-print
Unique presentation
150 x 180 cm

artist profile

Ori Gersht

born

1963

lives and works

London, UK

education

BA, Westminster University, London, UK, 1992
MA, Department of Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 1995

about the artist

Armed with his camera, Ori Gersht labors to extend the capabilities of photography by venturing into an exploration of that which cannot be captured. Technology becomes very important for him as he manages a host of impossibilities—his images are saturated with emotional resonance; they record the split second of a moment that even the human eye cannot register or they narrate the often bereft historical past of sites and places. The visual results are always sublime, with a dash of the elegiac. Endemic in his compositions are the dichotomies of violence and beauty, psychological and literal realities, as well as creation and destruction. Currently living and working in London, Gersht is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, UK. Frequently reviewed and written about in international art magazines, periodicals, and journals, Gersht is a prolific writer himself and contributes articles on his own work as well as the work of others. His photographs have been reproduced and discussed in many catalogues featuring contemporary Israeli photography and other publications on contemporary art. Several monographs have also been published on respective series. He has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Jewish Museum in New York, USA; the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., USA; and the Tate Britain in London, UK, and is making preparations for an upcoming solo show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has shown Gersht’s works on multiple occasions over the years, most recently in Roundabout, a touring group exhibition that traveled from the City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel.

  • Selected exhibition history
  • Permanent collections
  • Projects
  • Editions
  • Publications
  • Recent news

2012SOLO Mid Career Survey Show, Museum Of Fine Art Boston, USA

SOLO Survey of works between 2001-2011, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

2011GROUP Roundabout, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

GROUP When a Painting Moves… Something Must be Rotten, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway

GROUP Evaders, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

SOLO Lost in Time, Santa Barbara Museum, USA

2010GROUP Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum, Beijing, China

GROUP Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

GROUP Still / Moving, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

GROUP In Focus: Still Life, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

GROUP Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

GROUP Hugging and Wrestling: Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video, MoCA Cleveland, USA

2009GROUP Kosher & Co.,The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany

GROUP Tel Aviv Times, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

SOLO Black Box: Ori Gersht, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA

2008GROUP Depletion, works from the Doron Sebbag Collection, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel

SOLO Pomegranate: A video by Ori Gersht, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

GROUP Personal Landscape; contemporary Art from Israel, The Katzen, American University Museum, Washington, D.C., USA

SOLO The Forest, Musée d’Art de Toulon, France

SOLO Blow Up, Time After Time & Pomegranate, Centro Andaluz De La Fotografia, Almeria, Spain

2007GROUP 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands

GROUP In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London, UK

SOLO Pomegranate, Tate Britain, London, UK

SOLO The Forest, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA

GROUP Loop ’07 – Barcelona - The Video Art festival, Galeria Dels Ángels, Barcelona, Spain

GROUP Video Killed the Painting Star, Museum of Salamanca, Spain

2006GROUP Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

GROUP Forest Dreaming, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter, UK

GROUP Spatial dualism in the Eye of the Camera - Landscape Photography 1945-1963, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel

GROUP Forest Primeval, MoCA Georgia, Atlanta, USA

SOLO The Clearing, SpaceX, Exeter, UK; Photo Gallery, Cardiff, UK; Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland; Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds, UK

SOLO The Forest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

GROUP Illusions, Haifa Museum, Israel

2003GROUP Culture and Continuity, Jewish Museum, New York, USA

GROUP One Ground, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, USA

GROUP Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2002GROUP Non-Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

SOLO Afterglow, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

SOLO AfterGlow, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK

21c Museum, Louisville, USA

British Council, London, UK

Deutsche Bank

Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA

Hyde Park Center Collection, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Imperial War Museum, London, UK

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Jewish Museum, New York, USA

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, USA

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA.

Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.

Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK

Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, UK

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

UK Government Art Collection, London, UK

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

ORI GERSHT | Pizzuti Collection | Columbus Museum of Art

A series of three forceful video portraits by Ori Gersht will be on view in the Pizzuti Collection black box. The Columbus Museum of Art will host a simultaneous show of Ori Gersht’s photography and other works on loan from Pizzuti Collection. [more]

ORI GERSHT | Pizzuti Collection | Columbus Museum of Art

A series of three forceful video portraits by Ori Gersht will be on view in the Pizzuti Collection black box. The Columbus Museum of Art will host a simultaneous show of Ori Gersht’s photography and other works on loan from Pizzuti Collection. [more]