Uri Gershuni

Uri Gershuni is an Israeli photographer and educator.

Biography
Uri Gershuni was born in Raanana in 1970. He is son of Israeli painter Moshe Gershuni and sculptor and jewelry designer Bianca Eshel Gershuni.

Gershuni graduated from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design’s Photography Department, holding BFA and MFA. He teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and in WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education. He works and lives in Tel Aviv.

He was a photographer for Yedioth Ahronoth from 2003 and 2007. From 2009 he is a photographer for Haaretz.

Uri Gershuni works are in permanent collections of Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel Museum, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Shpilman Institute of Photography.

He is gay.

Curatorial projects

 * 2010 Sofia, Solo Exhibition of Bianca Eshel Gershuni, Inga gallery, Tel Aviv
 * 2011 Hatima Tova, Group Exhibition, Inga gallery, Tel Aviv
 * 2012 Incident Light, solo exhibition of Sasha Flit, Indie Gallery
 * 2013 Big Yekatherina, solo exhibition of Valery Bikovsky, part of the exhibition Art's Outer Circles, Haifa Museum of Art
 * 2014 Horror Movie, group exhibition, the International Photography Festival, Rishon LeZion
 * 2014 Nehushtan, group exhibition, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv

Awards

 * 1995 - Special presidential grant for excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
 * 2000 - Minister of education and culture award for young Israeli artist
 * 2005 - Young photographers award on behalf of Haifa Museum of Art
 * 2007 - Heskia Hacmun award
 * 2012 - Israel's Minister of Culture ‘Art Encouragement’ Award