Esther
Naor

Esther Naor was born in 1961 in Israel. She graduated from the department of Civil Engineering at Haifa Technion Institute, Israel, and the department of Computer Sciences at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Following 10 years of a career in engineering and computers in the high-tech industry, she began art studies at the Midrasha Art School in Kfar Saba and at several artists' studios in Israel. Since the year 2001 she has been dedicating herself to art, working mainly in the media of sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Selected exhibitions2021 Limitless Limits, the 2nd Larnaca Biennale, Cyprus. Curator: Vassilis Vassiliades • 2021 The Israel Spirit Annual exhibition, Discount Bank Exhibiting Space, Tel Aviv. Curators: Shulamit Nuss and Vera Pilpoul • 2020 Time, group exhibition, the Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem. Curators: Eran Shavit and Shir Meller-Yamagutshi • 2018 Container and Content, the First Larnaca Art Biennale, Cyprus. Curator: Vassilis Vassiliades • 2018 The Soap Bar Cries Bitterly, group show, the Cliff Gallery, Netanya. Curator: Guy Morag Zeplevitz • 2018 Shop It! Sacred Goods, group show, Haifa Museum of Art. Curators: Svetlana Reingold, Shaked Shamir • 2018 The Women Behind, group show, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem. Curator: Raphie Etgar • 2017-18 Feminist Sculpture in Israel, group show, Mané-Katz Museum, Haifa. Curator: Svetlana Reingold • 2017 Women in Israeli Art, group show, Herzlilienblum Museum, Tel Aviv. Curators: Shulamit Nus, Vera Pilpoul • 2016 A Sudden Dark Breeze, solo show, Artists' House, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ilan Wizgan • 2016 We Decked It in Silence, installation/performance involving dancers, Fresh Paint 8 Art Fair, Tel Aviv. Curator: Carmit Blumensohn, Choreographer: Shani Bar Dimri • 2016 Do You Hear What I Hear? Group show, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn. Curator: Anthony Elms • 2016 Aftermath, solo Show, Stux + Haller Gallery, New York • 2015 The Object Is Present, solo show, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn. Curator: Shlomit Dror • 2015 Yes-No, Black-White, group show, Beit Meirov, Holon. Curator: Guy Morag Zeplevitz • 2015 A Sudden Dark Breeze over My Uncovered Skin, solo show, Bosi Contemporary Gallery, New York. Curator: Lilly Wei • 2015 Good Fortune and a Blessing, group show, Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv. Curator: Carmit Blumensohn • 2015 Transformed Viewpoints, group show, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn. Curator: Charlotta Kotik • 2014 2 on Richter Scale, group show, Florentin 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators: Gilat Nadivi, Vera Pilpoul • 2014 Point of Virtue, group show, Herzlilienblum Museum, Tel Aviv. Curator: Neta Gal Atsmon • 2014 Liminal Communities, group show, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn. Curator: Lucy Li • 2014 Ready-Set-Go, group show, Municipal Gallery, Rehovot. Curators: Raya Tal Zommer, Ora Kraus • 2014 I Do Not See the Sky, solo show, Yanco Dada Museum, Ein Hod. Curator: Raya Zommer Tal • 2013 The International Plain Notebook Project, in the framework of the exhibition Not Book, Beit Ha'ir, Tel Aviv. Curator: Guy Morag Zeplevitz • 2013 Ready-Set-Go – 100 Years to the First Ready-made, group show, Yanco Dada Museum, Ein Hod. Curator: Raya Tal Zommer • 2013 Head, group show, Bosi Contemporary Gallery, New York. Curators: Robert Curcio and Dominick Lombardi • 2013 Testing Tools #10, group show, Beit Tami Center, Tel Aviv. Curator: Carmit Blumenson • 2013 I Do Not See the Sky, permanent installation, Yanco Dada Museum, Ein Hod • 2013 Awakening, group show, Florentin 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Gilat Nadivi • 2013 Fragment, group show, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn. Curator: Jill Conner • 2013 Women Creation, video art group show, 4th Epos International Art Film Festival, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Program Coordinator: Sivan Shlack • 2013 Hamangalistim, group show, Hachava Gallery, Holon. Curators: Anat Cohen and Guy Morag Zeplevitz • 2012 Side Effects, solo show, Florentin 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ilan Wizgan • 2012 Tempus Arti Triennial 2012, Landen, Linter and Zoutleeuw, Belgium. Curators: Dirk Lambrechts and Tim Cleuren • 2012 Night of Festivals 2012, Moving Image Programme, Nottingham. Director: David Hill • 2012 Summer Show, group show, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Curator: Tess Jaray • 2012 fashionSCAPES, the 7th Festival of Arts and Fashion (FAT), Toronto. Director: Vanja Vasic • 2012 Celebrating Kindred Spirits and Strange Bed Fellows, group show, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn. Curator: Catherine J. Morris • 2011 You Are All Red, and So Very White, installation/solo show, Florentin 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv • 2011 Video projections weekend, Centro Labicano Arte Contemporanea, Rome • 2011 Infinite Spaces (part two), group show, Sguardi Sonori festival of multi-media and time-based art, Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo. Curators: Carlo Fatigoni, Sandro Cecchi • 2011 Inter/National Members Exhibition, group show, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn Curator: Susanne Altmann • 2010 Infinite Spaces (part one), group show, Sguardi Sonori festival of multi-media and time-based art, Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Curators: Carlo Fatigoni, Sandro Cecchi • 2010 Solo show, Berliner Liste Art Fair, Berlin • 2010 Houses in the Boulevard, open-air group show, Rothschild Ave., Tel Aviv. Curator: Ilan Wizgan • 2009 Tempus Arti Triennial 2009, Landen, Linter and Zoutleeuw, Belgium. Artistic Advisor: Jan Hoet.