MFA, Hunter College Art School, New York
1997-2000 BFA, Beit-Berel College - School of Art - "Midrasha", Israel
Magna Cum Laude.
Solo Exhibitions
2005
The Blind Scenario, Pack Gallery, Milan
The Colonel and I, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2004
WE, MFA Thesis show, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York
The Sun is Still Shine, Pack Galleria, Milan
2003
The Black and White Theater, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Art Focus 4, Jerusalem (curators: Yigal Zalmona and Susan Landau)
Patrol, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya (curator, Dalia Levin)
2002
Ofri Cnaani – Dror Daum, Alon Segev gallery, Tel Aviv.
2000
Waiting Room, Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Group Exhibitions
2005
AIM 26, Bronx Museum, NYC (Forthcoming)
ARCO 05, Madrid
2004
Going Public 04: Maps, Confines, New Geographies, aMAZE cultural lab, Modena, Italy (Curator: Claudia
Zanfi)
Visionaries, Makor art center, New York
Video:1Min:1800 Frames, City without Walls, Newark, NJ.
2003
Artik 5, American - Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, Ramat-Gan Museum, Ramat-
Gan.
2002
The Kiss, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2001
Action Express, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Graduate Exhibition, Beit Berel-College-School of Art - "Midrasha"
Artik 3, American - Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, University Gallery, Tel-
Aviv
VideoTrip, Video Art Nightly Project, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Performances
2005
Signals, Collaboration with Victoria Hannah, The Kitchen, NY
Screenings
2005
Handmade, Israeli Video Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2004
Handmade, Israeli video art in Poland, Warsaw, Poland
2003
Capture, The Dance Theater workshow, New York
Handmade, II Festival Dialogu Czterech Kultur, Lodz, Poland. (curated by Liliana Kadichevski)
Dirty Old Toy Box, Screening Room, Fluxcore Art Space, Brooklyn.
Improvised and Otherwise, a festival of sound and form. Brooklyn.
Video marathon, Art in General, NYC
2002
"KuenstlerInnengespraeche", Video Trade between New York – Berlin
Shortcuts, BRAK Expositieruimte, Groningen, the Netherlands
2001
Local Time 3, Group video-art festival, Tel-Aviv Cinemateque.
Awards and Fellowship
2005
AIM - Artist in the Marketplace fellowship program at the Bronx Museum
2003-2004
American - Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation Overseas graduate scholarship.
2000- 2001
American - Israeli "Sharet" Cultural Foundation
Beit Berel Certificates of Honor for artistic excellence and academic achievements
1999
The Germany Foundation Certificate of Honor for academic excellence.
Beit Berel Certificate of Honor for academic achievements.
1998
Beit Berel Certificate of Honor for academic achievements.
Reviews and Publications
2005
Garwood, Deborah, AMulti-Media artist taut Reporting, ArtCritical, www.artcritical.com, April 16, 2005
Garwood, Deborah, AMulti-Media artist taut Reporting, Gay City News, April 14, 2005
Colonel Collection, New York Sun, March 16, 2005
2004
Zanfi, Claudia, Women Artists in the Middle East, Art e Critica 41, December, 2004
Going Public 04, Exhibition Catalog, October 2004
Garwood, Deborah, Visionaries, NY arts, August 2004
Litwin, Anat. Visionaires, Exhibition Essay, July 2004
Self Portrait, Tema Celesta magazine, July 2004
Zanfi, Claudia. "The sun still shines: One journey One Hope", Milan, March 2004.
Uzi Tsur. "Ofri Cnaani: The Black & White theater", Haaretz, January 2004
Sheffi, Smadar "Ofri Cnaani: The Black & White theater" Haaretz, January 2004
2003
Art Focus 4, Exhibition Catalog, December 2003
Goldfine, Gil. "Under the plastic tree", The Jerusalem Post, May, 2003
Meltzer, Gilad. "Twilight zone", Yediot Ahronoth, April, 2003
Director, Ruty. "The understanding of the ceiling", Ha-Eir, April, 2003
Art In general's 5th Annual Video-Marathon Catalogue, January, 2003
2002
Sheffi, Smadar. "A playground full of surprises", Haaretz, July 2002
Gilerman, Dana, "Its from home", Haaretz, July 2002
Aviv Naomi. The Kiss, Exhibition Catalogue, The kiss: Yehiel Shemi, Yael Cnaani and Ofri Cnaani.
Kalisher Gallery, April 2002
Gilerman, Dana. "A game with secret rules", Haaretz, January 2002
Tsur, Uzi. "Reverberating between spaces and senses", Haaretz, January 2002
2001
Tsur, Uzi. "The Possible Revolving of the Young Artist", Haaretz, August 2001
Sanderson, Naomi. "Everything is in Order: Ofri Cnaani's Video-Art Trilogy", online essay.
Available on line at http://www.comme-il-fault.com, August 2001.
Sheffi, Smadar. "Directly to the central circle", Haaretz, July 2001
Gilerman, Dana. "Harmony of negatives", Haaretz, July 2001
2000
Ben-Ner Guy. Waiting Room, Exhibition essay. Peer gallery, Tel-Aviv,June 2000
Background
Born in 1975 in Israel. Lives and works in New York.