Lili Almog 1961 —

Lili Almog (b. 1961)

Lili Almog moved from Israel to New York in the mid 80's and started her photography career working as a photojournalist for several international news publications focusing primarily on fashion and portraiture. Simultaneously, Lili Almog developed her art vision and graduated with honors from The School of Visual Arts in 1992. During the past ten years her artistic efforts focused on creating representations of the feminine body and psyche in an attempt to capture objectively the state of spiritual and cultural identity among women influenced by western culture (Bed sequence 2002, Perfect Intimacy 2006 and The other Half of the sky 2009).

More recent work (Between Presence and Absence 2012) and in her present exhibition at Vered Gallery, East Hampton NY 2014, "Down to Earth", her focus shifted from social behavior to traces of human activity in landscape and including sculptures and video.

Almog's first video was made at the site of the Carmel Fire, commemorating its one year anniversary.

The fire destroyed large parts of the Carmel Hai-Bar Nature Reserve, one of the largest forests in Israel. Many 250 homes were destroyed or severely damaged, 17,000 people were forced to evacuate, more than 12,000 acres were burned and an estimated 5 million trees were lost in the fire. 44 people died.

Below is a link to the 25 minute video. The overwhelming vision, the poetic movement accentuated by its original score, sear the reality of the tragedy into ones mind.

It was the process of looking at the fire scared landscape accelerated Almog's move from purely figurative interests, to concerns about land and land usage that resulted in "DOWN TO EARTH" Almog's exploration of land and land's usage, principally - it's pleasurable usage, as in sports fields: flight, baseball and golf courses.

The film is online and the link is: http://vimeo.com/manacontemporary/almog Password: Almog

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS (selected)
San Francisco MOMA, CA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Art Museum, Lexington, KY
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Herzliya Museum of art, Israel
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense C, Denmark
The New York Academy of Art
CDW permanent prints collection at the Samuel Dorksy Museum, New Paltz, NY
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens, New York
Teutloff Photo and Video collection, Bielefeld, Germany
and numerous private collections

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED SOLO)
2014 Vered Gallery, East Hampton NY Down to Earth May 24 - June 18, 2014
2010 Emmanuel Walderdoff Gallery, Germany,
The Art Museum, Lexington, KY
2009 Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2008 Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, MA
2007 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2005 Senko Studio, Viborg, Denmark
Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia 
2000 The Center of Photography at Woodstock, New York
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, New York 
Pennings gallery, Holland 
Prague House of Photography, Czech Republic
2003 Galleri Image, Denmark
2002 Herzliya Museum of art, Israel
International Photography Hall of Fame Museum, Oklahoma

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED GROUP)
2013
Prechance to Dream, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Face to Face, photographers Network Selection 2004-2013, Germany

2012
Visual Traces in a Restless Present, Darmstadt Days of Photography Germany. Schatziager Emmanuel Walderdoff Gallery, Germany
Domestic, 7th edition of the Xavier Miserachs Biennial of Photography, Spain
A prayer is a prayer is a prayer , Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Bless the artist , Caldwell College NJ

2011
Coleção Joaquim Paiva, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Stitch in Jewish Time, Vered gallery, East Hampton, NY

2010
PQ 100, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Domestic, Espacio Cultural Caja, Madrid, Spain

2009
Vision Prospect of Life, Darmstadt Days of Photography, Germany

2008 -2009
History of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK

2007
"Picturing Modernity", San Francisco MOMA, CA

2006
"With Other Eyes", Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
"Female Sight", Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China
Portraits, Photographers Place, London, UK
Discoveries of Fotofest 2004, Houston, TX

2005
"Aus Amerika", Galerie Lichtblick, Koln, Germany
"Untouchable Things", Backlight, Finland
"Monumental Nude", Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
"Behind the Lens" Norton Museum, Florida
Israeli Photographers Reflecting Their Own Image, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Internationale Fototage Mannheim, Germany
"Intersection", Liquid Blue Gallery, Florida
Photographers Network Selection, Germany 2004 + 2005
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Recent Acquisitions, New York

2004
Facing Art Basel @Dot 51, Florida

2003
"Body is Required", Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark,

2002
"Pinhole to pixel", Sir Her. Black Gallery, Australia,
2001
"Self-reflections: A Glance in the Mirror", Hosted by Pfizer, New York

2000
SVA 50th Anniversary, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

1997
"Der Zerteilte Blick", Int. Photoszene, Ksln

1996
Musez de la Photographie a Charleroi, Belgium

1996
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, New York
National Showcase, Alternative Museum, New York
Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia
"Quotations: Art Imitates Art", Houston Center of Photography, Texas

1995
"Broken Narratives", MMC Gallery, New York 1995

BOOKS
The Other Half of the Sky, Monograph, powerHouse Books, New York(2009)
Signs of the Apocalypse / Rapture, Front 40 Press (2008)
L'Art qui Manifeste directed by Anne Larue Veiled women in art, Universit Paris 13 (2008)
Perfect Intimacy by Lili Almog, Monograph, powerHouse Books, New York(2006)
Israeli Photographers Reflecting Their Own Image, Show catalogue 2005
Bed Sequence by Lili Almog, catalogue, Herzelia Museum of Art, Israel (2002)

BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
2006
Afterimage, Nov. 2006
America (cover story), Oct. 2006
Camera Austria, Sep. 2006
Le Monde, July 2006
foto and video RU, June 2006
PHOTOGRPHIE GR, June 2006
The Jewish Week, June 2006
Photograph (cover story), May 2006
The New York Sun, May 2006
The Dallas Morning News, May 2006
Vogue Italy, April 2006
Popular Photography, April 2006
Boston Globe, January 2006

2005
"Behind the Lens", The Miami Herald, May 1, 2005
"A photographer's view of a cloistered life", Boston Globe, Jan 13 2005
Israeli Photographers Reflecting Their Own Image, Show catalogue 2005

2002
Finn Thrane, Museet for Fotokunst, "Body is Required" Pages 14,15, 23, 29.(2002)
Photonews, Germany center fold profile (2002)
Dana Gilerman, Hareetz Galeria, review (2002)
Yehuda Meltzer, Yediot Achronot, review (2002)
Irit Rotem Maariv, review (2002)
Gil Goldfine, Jerusalem Post, review (2002)
Fotograf, Czech Republic, 5 pages profile (2002)
La Fotogrrafia Actual, Spain, 4 pages profile (2002)

1999
Nahas Dominique, "Art in Review", New York Review (1999)
Dr. Paul Denny JR, 'Write With Light" (1999)
Brandenburg John, "Art in Review", OKD (1999)

AWARDS
2007
Perfect Intimacy book, Photo District News Best Photography Book (2007)
Perfect Intimacy book, The Art Directors Club Merit Award for Best Photo Book (2007)
Catholic Press award winners (2007)
2006
International Photography Awards 2006: Honorable Mention Perfect Intimacy ѠBook(2006)

2004
Golden Light Award: Honorable Mention Top Photographer, Personal/Fine Art International Photography Awards - IPA 2004: Professional Honorable Mention Fine Art/Portrait

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