Draft:Lihi Chen

Lihi Chen (born in 1977) is an Israeli artist engaged in installation and sculpture, digital drawing and media art. A senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa and at Hamidrasha Faculty of art at Beit Berl.

biography
Lihi Chen was born to Yosefa and Yehuda Chen and grew up in Ramat Gan, and has one sister. Studied at Givat Brenner comprehensive high school and graduated in art.

Chen studied for a bachelor's degree (BEDFA), at the Hamidrasha art school, Beit Berl college, where she was awarded two scholarships during her studies, which she graduated with honors (1997-2001). Master's degree in art from Bezalel (MFA) 2003-2004) which she graduated with honors. She also studied at the Hebrew University - Jerusalem (2003-2004). During these studies she was awarded an honors scholarship and a research scholarship for outstanding work in sculpture, both from the Hebrew University. As part of her master's degree studies, she went to a student exchange at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow (GSA) in collaboration with Bezalel art academy, where she participated in a group exhibition. In 2005, she artistically managed with Boaz Kadman the student exchange project with the Glasgow School of Art when they arrived in Israel.

Since 1998, Chen has presented works in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and around the world, including: Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art ( Tel Aviv Museum ), Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, and the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan and the Israeli Biennale for art and design.

As part of her work, she collaborated with the group "Pathos Matos" in the project "In Rooms" (2017) and with the artist Orly Saver in the exhibition "Refuge" (2012).

Chen has been a lecturer since 2002 at the Beit Berl Hamidrasha faculty of art, where she also holds position as  Department coordinator, and since 2004 at the art department at the University of Haifa where she is a senior  academic stuff member. Among her teaching areas: mentoring, installation art, art and media, drawing and education. She has also mentored students in their MFA master's degree studies over the years.

Lihi Chen lives and works in Tel Aviv, married to Dror Kremer, a software engineer, they have three children.

About her artistic work
Late bloomer, installation (2006):

"In her installations, Lihi Chen creates surreal fantastic environments on the seam between illusion and reality. These environments - real but fabricated, concrete but dream-like, function as carriers of rich emotional and romantic poetic meanings. The artist makes use of familiar images, diverts them to a new fictional context and charges them with metaphorical meanings..."

Tammy Katz-Freeman, from: Catalog "Fatamorgana, illusion and mirage in contemporary art". Haifa Museum of Art, 2006.

Love me two times, solo exhibition (2013):

"By using found objects, collected or in her possession, by handling ready-made and by means of manual craft impersonating ready-made, Lihi Chen creates a deceptive domestic space. The viewer is granted a few seconds to be charmed of the beauty before he feels the strangeness of the familiar situation, and the tension created between the real object and the "artistic" one that Chen produces herself. ''

Ruthie Director, from "From the Ready, 100 Years of Ready-Made", catalog, Haifa Art Museum.

Golden Hands, 2018:


 * "Besides the artistic action, Chen inserts into the creative processes the virtuosity of the skilled craftsman, the mechanical work force of the industrial machine and the production line, and the perfection of the digital simulation. Forces that operate in the exhibition at the same time, and to a certain extent compete with each other for the premier."

Maya Shimony, from the text "Life Like" for the exhibition

Solo exhibitions, couple exhibitions, and museum installations

 * 2002 - "Bon Voyage", solo exhibition, "The Room" gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Roni Saadon.
 * 2002 - "Comic Strip", video installation, Israel Art Museum, Ramat Gan, curators: Alona Friedberg, Simcha Shirman.
 * 2003 - "On The Rocks", solo exhibition, Artists House, Tel Aviv, curator: Orli Hoffman.
 * 2004 - "Banie's Night" an installation in the exhibition "animal-vegetable-mineral", the final exhibition of the graduates of the MFA study program, Bezalel Gallery.
 * 2005 - "Insomnia", an installation in the exhibition "Transports in Space", Petah Tikva Art Museum, curator Orly Hoffman.
 * 2006 - "Late bloomer," installation in the exhibition "Fatamorgana", Haifa Art Museum, curator: Tami Katz Freeman.
 * 2010 - "How we can open the Lotus", in collaboration with Ruth Barker, Givatayim Water Institute, curator: Orly Hoffman.
 * 2011 - "Respite", a joint exhibition by Lihi Chen and Orly Saver, Dana Gallery, Yad Mordechai . Curator: Ravit Harari.
 * 2012 - "The Pretenders" installation in a tripartite exhibition, Kav 16 Gallery Tel Aviv, curator: Sally Haftel.
 * 012 - "Mon Chéri", Kir Aman, Beit Tami, Tel Aviv, curator: Carmit Blumenzon.
 * 2012 - "All-Is-Black" - solo exhibition, Shai Aryeh Gallery, Tel Aviv.
 * 2013 - "Love me two times", Kfar Saba city gallery, curator: Ravital Segev.
 * 2018 - "Golden Hands", Gvirol Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator : Lea Ziegler.
 * 2018 - "Many Waters" a special project for "City Wall", a project in the urban area, the southern wall of Tel Aviv city hall.

 Selected group exhibitions 


 * November 2023 Biennale for israeli art and design, Eretz Israel museum, Tel Aviv.
 * November 2020 "Haifa Central", group exhibition, Pyramid Gallery, Haifa, Curator: Shirley Meshulam.
 * March 2020 "50 Shades of Yellow", a group exhibition, "Al hatzuk" Gallery, Nethanya, Curator: Dr. Guy Morag.
 * December 2018 "Pyromantica",a video installation at the “Night Lamp” Festival, Tel Aviv, Curator: Ravit Harari.
 * March 2018 "with Passage of Time", group exhibition, Rehovot Municipal Gallery, curator: Ora Kraus.
 * September 2017 "Ma'ala Ma'ala", group exhibition, the Farm Gallery, Holon. Curator: Guy Morag.
 * July 2017 "The Official Residence", group exhibition, “the Red House” Tel Aviv, Curator: Danielle Chahana.
 * March 2017 "The Neighbor's Lawn", group exhibition, Weil Center, Kfar Shmaryahu, Curator: Dr. Guy Morag.
 * November 2016 "In 4 Rooms", 3 installations, multidisciplinary project, Pathos Matos Group, Alma Hotel, Zichron.
 * February 2016 "A SAINT in Sodom", an installation, the Patos Matos group, Tel Aviv.
 * January 2016 "Dare", an installation, the Patos-Matos group, Tel Aviv.
 * January 2016 "After all, you are broken", an installation, Pathos Matos Group, Tel Aviv.
 * December 2015 "The medium is the message", the Patos-Matos group, Tel Aviv.
 * October 2015 "Local Pulse 2-mix & match" Tel Aviv Artists' House, Curators: Orly Hoffman and Arie Berkowitz.
 * September 2015 "Yes, No, Black and White", installation and community project at Beit Mayerhov, Holon Arts Center, Curator: Dr. Guy Morag.
 * July 2015 "horrorvacui", group exhibition, Benjamin Gallery, Curator: Hagar Brill.
 * December 2014 "Jerusalem Drawing Biennale", Jerusalem Artists House, Curator: Tal Yahas.
 * October 2013 "Quarantine", group exhibition, Hansen hous, Jerusalem. Curator: Neta Gal Atzmon.
 * October 2013 "Black Box", a billboard project in Jerusalem, part of the “Manofim Festival”. Curator: Itzik Mizrahi.
 * August 2013 "THE READYMADE CENTENNIAL” an installation at the Haifa Museum of Art. Curator: Ruthie Director.
 * August 2013 "deadwood" group exhibition, Tel Aviv artists' workshops, Curator: Vered Gani.
 * July 2013 "Come closer" group exhibition, Feinberg Projects, Curator: Orly Hoffman.
 * July 2013 "not-book", group exhibition, Tel Aviv City Hall, Curator: Dr. Guy Morag.
 * June 2013 "Plaster", “Doctors for Human Rights”, Jaffa Port, Curator: Vardit Gross.
 * January 2013 "Local Pulse", group exhibition, Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Curators: Orly Hoffman, Arie Berkowitz.
 * January 2013 "Glory, Temporary Name", group exhibition, Dondikov House, Rehovot, Curators: Dr. Guy Morag and Ora Krauss.
 * October 2012 "Explorer", group exhibition, Contemporary Gallery by Golukunda, Tel Aviv, Curator: Iris Mendel.
 * August 2012 "Tool Experiment 9", Beit Tami, Tel Aviv, Curator: Carmit Blumenson.
 * March 2012 "Graduation Party", group exhibition, Hacheder Gallery, curator: Neta Gal-Atzmon.
 * January 2012 "Turning Point 5", Raw Art Gallery Tel-Aviv, Curator, Noga Davidson.
 * January 2012 "Sculpture, Fracture, Joint", an exhibition in memory of Kobi Harel, "The
 * Spaceship house", Tel Aviv, Curators: Reuven Kuperman, Smadar Levy.
 * May 2011 "The Winners 2010", Ministry of Culture Awards for Art and Design, Ramat Gan
 * Museum, Curator: Meir Aharonson.
 * February 2011 "Rear Window", group exhibition, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Ravit Harari.
 * September 2010 Mural, Gimnasia Herzliya, Tel Aviv.
 * September 2009 ‘D.Z. 34 ", group exhibition, Midrasha Gallery in Tel Aviv, Curators:" Atsirot Group".
 * February 2009 "Starter", group exhibition, Curators: Atsirot group.
 * January 2008 "On Paper", Moti Hasson Gallery, New York.
 * December 2007 "Young Israeli Art", Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Curator: Olga Cohen.
 * November 2006 "Apropos of the mademoiselles de Avignon", group exhibition, Petah Tikva Museum, Curator: Gilad Meltzer.
 * October 2006 "What makes a bird a bird?" Group exhibition, Curator: Rakefet Wiener Omar.
 * March 2006 "Vacation", group exhibition, the new gallery, Rehovot, Curator: Rakefet Wiener Omer.
 * February 2006 "Brand Art". Group exhibition, “Crop House”.
 * June 2005 "Interim Reading", group exhibition, Tel Aviv Artists' House, Curator: Orly Hoffman.
 * March 2005 "League", group exhibition, "Hanamal House", Tel Aviv, Curator: Galia Yahav.
 * September 2004 "What makes the houses today so different, so charming", group exhibition, Kav 16 Gallery, Curator: Galia Yahav.
 * September 2003 "Tel Aviv-Glasgow-Tel Aviv", group exhibition, Bezalel academy Gallery, Tel Aviv.
 * August 2003 "This is private", group exhibition, "EmergeD" Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
 * May 2002 "Oasis", group exhibition, "Hacheder" Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Roni Saadon.
 * August 2001 "Back to the Future", group exhibition, Kibbutz Kabri Gallery, Curator: Smadar Eliasaf.
 * August 2000 "Gimelim", group exhibition, Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Guy Ben Ner.

curating

 * Undergraduate Exhibition, Department of Art, University of Haifa 2024
 * Undergraduate Exhibition, Department of Art, University of Haifa 2023
 * Undergraduate Exhibition, Department of Art, University of Haifa 2021
 * Undergraduate Exhibition, Department of Art, University of Haifa 2020
 * Undergraduate Exhibition, Department of Art, University of Haifa 2019
 * Undergraduate Exhibition, Beit Berl Art'\ College, 2017
 * Undergraduate Exhibition, Department of Art, University of Haifa 2014
 * Undergraduate Exhibition Beit Berl Art College, 2013
 * Real Sci-Fi Group Exhibition at Bezalel Gallery in Tel Aviv 2006

Awards and scholarships

 * July 2018 “The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts”, Tel Aviv for the exhibition "Golden Hands" Tel Aviv.
 * April 2018 “The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv” Tel Aviv Municipality.
 * September 2010 Young Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture.
 * December 2007 “Heritage” Foundation Award for Young Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
 * February 2003 The Bela Brizel Young Artist Encouragement Foundation - Zaritzky Artists' House - Tel Aviv.