Dan Birenboim

Dan Birenboim’s studies in architecture art the Pratt Institute, New York, and his subsequent work in Israel as an artist, curator, and urban planner inform his art practice. Frequently focusing on trees, parks, power-lines, ravens and forests, these motifs are woven into a dialogue of the greening of urban space, or the forest as a “green lung”—exemplified by Manhattan's Central Park. His monochromatic paintings are realistic, often set against a still, stark white ground to emphasize his impeccable control over the rich mercury pigment with which he exclusively paints.

b. 1965, Givatayim, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv

 

EDUCATION

1988 - 1993: Bachelor of Architecture, Pratt Institute, New York

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010  Schnurgerüst, Tzadik Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2009  The Ship of Fools, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv
           Black on White, Interdiciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya

2008  The Hanging Gardens, Ahronson Gallery, Ramat Hasharon

2007  Land of Shadows, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan

2006  Ravens, The Artists' House, Tel Aviv
           Dan Birenboim, The Art Gallery, Kibbutz Rosh Hanrika
           Waterside Landscapes, Artists' House, Tel Aviv

2005  Reading There, Across, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv

2004  National Citizens, Eisenberg Street Paper, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv

2003  Raven, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
           Urban Birds, Beit Gabriel on Lake Kinneret, Sea of Galilee

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010  Forest, Julie M. Gallery, Toronto
           Birds, Tzadik Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo

2009  Something White, Nazert Art Gallery
           Tel Aviv my love, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, curator: Galit Semel
           Talking Poet 10, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv
           Stuck, Yafo Harbor, Tel Aviv-Yafo
           Midnight, The Art Studio of Ramat Eliyahu, salon studio 22, Yafo. (Curators: Hagi Argov & Dan Birenboim)
           Eye, The Art Studio of Yavne, Yavne. (Curator: Dan Birenboim)

2008  Traces #3, The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Artists' House, Jerusalem
           Flying, The Yavneh Art Workshop
           Individual, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv
           Memo, Givatyim Art Gallery, Givatyim
           Israel Contemporary, Vizabond Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
           Megila, Shpier Art Gallery, Speyer, Germany

2007  Star of David, The Yavneh Art Workshop
           Street/Space, Mishkan Omanim, Herzliya
           Urban View, The Art Studio of Ramat Eliyahu
           Homage to Eibby Nattan, The Art Studio of Yavne
           The Last Painting - Homage to Raffi Lavie, Tova Osman Gallery

2006  Brand Art, Crip! Advertising, Tel Aviv

2005  Open Space, No Sanctity, The Artists' House, Tel Aviv
           Assassination of Yitzhak, Beit Uri & Rami Nehushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Ya
           Rachel, The Yavneh Art Workshop

2004  Tel Aviv Moments, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery
           You Don, Limbus Gallery

2003  A New Building: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Herta & Paul Amir Architectural Competition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Discount Bank Art Collection
Neways Ltd.
Oded Shatil