The Clearing

Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht (born 1967, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England

Ori Gersht’s monograph, The Clearing 2005.

Israeli arts movement

Conflicts in Israel

Arab–Israeli War 1947 to 1949

The War of Attrition 1967 to 1970

Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon (1971-1982)

South Lebanon conflict (1982–2000)

Publications

Ori Gersht - Lost In Time

Ori Gersht - Artist Book

Publications

Ori Gersht - The Clearing

Ori Gersht: History Repeating

Solo Exhibitions • 2012 - History Repeating, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.

• 2012 - This Storm is What We Call Progress, Imperial War Museum, London.[3]

• 2011 - Lost in Time, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA

• 2009 - Black Box, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA

• 2008 - Selected Films, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

• 2008 - The Forest, Musée d’Art de Toulon, Toulon, France

• 2008 - Pomegranate, The Jewish Museum, New York

• 2007 - Time After Time: Exploding Flowers & Other Matters, The Armory Show • (with CRG Gallery), New York, USA

• 2007 - The Forest & Blow Up, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA

• 2006 - The Forest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

• 2006 - The Clearing, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

• 2004 - History in the Making, Photo España, Madrid, Spain

• 2002 - Afterglow, Art Now Room, Tate Britain, London, UK

• 2002 - Afterglow, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel

Group Exhibitions • 2011 - Evaders & Falling Bird, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel• 2011 - When a Painting Moves… Something Must be Rotten, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway• 2011 - Eating Art, La Pedrera/Casa Milà, Barcelona, Spain• 2010 - Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA• 2010 - Still / Moving, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem• 2010 - Beijing International Art Biennale 2010, National At Museum, Beijing, China• 2010 - Atlantis II, Rohkunstbau, Berlin, Germany• 2010 - Paysage, Musée d’Art, Toulon, France• 2009 - Hugging and Wrestling: Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video, Museum of Contemporary Art

Cleveland, USA• 2009 - Flower Power, Villa Giulia – Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Turin,Italy• 2008 - Pomegranate: The Jewish Museum, New York, USA• 2008 - Mutation II, Paris, Kulturprojekte, Berlin, Fotofo, Bratislave, Vladmir Und Estragon, Vienna, Association

Café Crème, Luxenbourg, Musee de la Photographie, Moscou, Zone Attive, Rome• 2007 - Video Killed the Painting Star, Museum of Salamanca, Spain• 2007 - In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London• 2007 - Single Shot, Tate Britain, London• 2007 - 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands, Spain• 2006 - Inside-Out: Contemporary Artists from Israel, Museum MARCO, Vigo, Spain• 2006 - Forest Primeval, MOCA (GA), Atlanta, USA• 2006 - Twillight: Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria and Albert Museum, London• 2005 - Dreams and Trauma, Berlin, Germany• 2003 - One Ground, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA• 2002 - Reality Check: Recent Developments in British Photography and Video, curated by Kate Bush and Brett

Rogers, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic• 2002 - Non-Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ori served as a medic during his period of mandatory service.

Recognition and awards

• 1990 South Bank Photo Show, London

• 1993 Department of Transport Art Competition, London

• 1997 Residency at Whitefield School, Barnet

• 2000 The Constantiner Photographer Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

• 2002 Consultant to the Architectural Development Planning of the South London Gallery

• 2004 First Prize winner, Onfuri International, Tirana, Albania

The Mountain

Swamp

Trace

The Forest – by Ori Gersht 2005