Yigal Feliks
Born in Jerusalem, 1979

Education
2018 - 2021:  M.A , Cultural Studies, University of Haifa, IL.
2002-2006:  BFA, Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, IL

Teaching
2016 - 2020: Head of Reut high school, photography department, Haifa, IL.
2010 - 2021: Teaching in Reut high school, photography department, Haifa, IL.
2007-2012: Lecturer at the Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem;
                      The Open University; and Sapir college, IL.

Solo Exhibitions
2024- "Darkness looms above us," Minshar School of Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, IL.
2016- "Imitating Michal Joy," Vitrina Gallery, Design Faculty, Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), IL.
2015- "A Theater of a Man in His Mid 30’s," Hanina Gallery, Tel-Aviv, IL.
2012- "From Experiment to Expression," Witzo Academy, Haifa, IL.
2011- "Souvenirs (Anaglyph Photographs-3D)," Indie Gallery, Tel-Aviv, IL.
2010- "Gradient," Hagalleria, Paris, FR.
2008- "Utopia?" Hagalleria, Paris, FR.
2008- "Utopia?" 4th Festival of Jewish Culture, Paris, FR. 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022- "Israeli Street Song," Courts Heritage Museum, The Supreme Court , Jerusalem, IL.
2021- "Constitutive photographs," Indie Gallery, Tel-Aviv, IL.
2020- "Central Station-1," Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, IL.
2019- "Demolition Party – from public housing to residential tower," Haifa City Museum, IL
2019- "Urban Parallelen," Stadtmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2018- "Pillar of Cloud," Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa. IL.
2015- "Arab Houses: Haifa (1860-1930)," Haifa City Museum, IL.
2012- "Hebron Road Ridge Route," Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem, IL.
2012- "Culture - P6 group," Indie Gallery, Tel-Aviv, IL.
2011- "Making Room: Contemporary Israeli Photography," Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, IL
2011- "Certified Copy," Beit Hagefen, Haifa, IL.
2010- "Building a Place-The P6 Group and Critical Landscape Photography," Rubin Museum, Tel-Aviv, IL.
2009- "Inside Israel," the Center of Urban Planning in Shanghai, China
2009- "Off the Wall," Hotel de Ville de Caen, Caen, FR.
2009- Group exhibition, Hagalleria, Paris, FR.
2009- "Encounter #6 - P6 group," Hamidrasha Art College, IL.
2008- "Inside Israel," Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China.
2008- "Past Reality, Present Reality," Hagalleria, Paris, FR.
2008- Salon du Livre, Paris, FR.
2007- "Moods and Modes in Israeli Photography," Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, IL
2007-  Permanent exhibition, Beit Avi-Chai, Jerusalem, IL
2007- "Artic 9," The Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv University, IL.
2006- "Holon Now," The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon, IL
2006- "Avenue of Art," Photography Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, IL
2005- "Avenue of Art," Sderot Conference, Sderot, IL

Selected Publications
2021- Portfolio: "Untitled by Unknown Photographer," Lens Magazine. 
2015- "The Humanistic," special new year magazine, Ha’aretz newspapers paper, IL.
2011- Catalog: "Making Room: Contemporary Israeli Photography," Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, IL
2011- Catalog: "Certified Copy," Beit Hagefen, Haifa, IL.
2010- Catalog: "Building a Place-The P6 Group and Critical Landscape Photography," Rubin Museum, IL.
2009- "Limbus. Locality. Photography," pp. 244-245 (book), IL.
2009- Portfolio: "The Jerusalem Show," Afterimage Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Vol.32, No.2, USA.
2009- Portfolio: in Daka 5- Journal of poetry and Criticism, IL.
2009- [8 photographers on the economic status], The Marker Week-Ha'aretz newspaper, pp.38 April. IL.
2008- Portfolio: Le Monde 2 (Special Issue about Israel), May-June, 2008 pp. 88-91, FR.
2007- Catalog: "Moods and Modes in Israeli Photography," Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, IL
2007- Catalog: "Artic 9," America-Israel Cultural Foundation, IL.
2006- Catalog: "Holon Now, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design," Jerusalem, IL
2005- Cover of the Geophysical Research Letters- journal, Cooperation with
            Dr. Y.Feliks and Professor M.Ghil, University of California Los Angeles, USA
 
Reviews & reference
2012- Review of the "War Games" series, Phaidon press blog, UK.
2010- Eran Guterman, L'arche, May 2010, FR.
2008- Neomi-Colombe Brromberg, Actualité juive, May 2008, FR.
2008- Nathalie Harel, L'arche, May 2008, FR.

Awards
2009- The lottery support for an exceptional project. “Building a Palace – The P6 Group".  IL.
2006- America-Israel Cultural Foundation, excellence scholarship, IL.
2006- Award for academic achievement in photography, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, IL.
2005- Research in digital photography, Equipment by Kodak-Creo-Leaf, Israel

Collections
The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, IL.
Avi-Chai foundation, IL.
Artothèque de Caen, Caen, FR.
Signum Foundation, Poznan, Poland.
Private Collections.
Picture
Photograph by: Eugene Levit, 2004