Education
2020 ALMA, home for hebrew culture
2015-2017 MFA program, Bezalel Academy Of Arts And Design, Tel Aviv
2014-2015 Painting studies with the artist Amir Rubin, Jerusalem
2014 House For Emerging Artists, continues studies for art school graduates, Musrara Multidisciplinary School of Art, Jerusalem
2010-2013 Photography department, Musrara Multidisciplinary School of Art, Jerusalem
Awards
2020 Jerard Levi Prize for the encouragement of photographic creativity
2018 Curator’s Choice Award in “Fresh Paint” Contemporary Art & Design Fair Tel Aviv
2013 The "Creative Encouragement" award for final project, named after Ester Hevroni
Solo exhibitions
2021 Front Crawl, duo exhibition with Shay Zilberman, The Artists’ Workshops, Jerusalem. Curator: Ilanit Konopny
2021 How to Die Beautifully (working title), CCA Tel Aviv, Curator: Noam Gal
2019 Heal, Cité Internationale of Arts,Paris
2018 “The Hug” Duo exhibition by Chen Cohen and Aya Zaiger. Indie Gallery. Tel Aviv
2018 “Tzamah” kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: karni barzilay
2015 Let’s End Nicely, solo exhibition, Ramat Gan museum for Israeli Art. Curator: Ayelet Hashahar Cohen
Selected Group exhibitions
2021 Tongue of Many, The New Gallery in Musrara. Curator: Tali Ben Nun, Jerusalem
2021 Being With the Animal, Minus 1 Gallery, “Haaretz” Collection, Curator: Efrat Livni, Tel-Aviv
2020 The End of Summer, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2020 The body himself, The Social Gallery in Musrara, Curator: Uri Drumer
2020 Primum Non Nocere, Minshar Art Gallery, Curators: Mika and Avi Milgrom
2019 Nurse, Nurse, Manofim festival Jerusalem, Curators: Leehe Shulov and Rinat edelstein
2019 The Believers, Museum of Bat Yam, Curator: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman
2018 Placeless Following Jacqeline Kahnoff, the new gallery in Musrara. Curator: Irena Gordon
2018 subjunctive mood/ people with the sense of possibility,the new gallery in Musrara. Curator: Ilanit Konopny
2017 Six days seven sins. An exhibition of the members of the Atlas Group 110, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Uri Drumer
2017 International Photography Festival, Minsk
2017 Graduate Exhibition, MFA program, Bezalel, Tel Aviv
2017 House Call, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017 Rough Censorship, Azza 13, Jaffa. Curator: Yechezkel Lazarov
2016 The Fourth Wall, See-Through gallery at Chlenov 24, Curator: Danielle Nivron
2016 Demonstration, Azza 13, Jaffa. Curator:: Yechezkel Lazarov
2015 Photopoetica: Now We Have Reached Understanding With The Light” Curator: Eyal Ben-dov
2014 Open studio in Maamuta center, Manofim, Jerusalem
2014 Black Matter – Musrara Mix 14
2014 La Saison des Éclipses - The Morel Drefler Gallery Curator: Michal Tobiass,
2013 Photo Poetic – The local that is not local at all, The Morel Drefler Gallery. Curator: Ayelet Hashahar Cohen
2013 Graduate Exhibition,The Morel Drefler Gallery Musrara. Advisors: Ram Bracha and Ayelet Hashahar Cohen
2013 The Promising Artist Exhibition, Tel Aviv Residency
Residency
2021 (Upcoming) Hamburg, Westwerk Residency
2018-2019 residency at the Cité Internationale of Arts, Paris
2016 Arad, with Atlas group 110 in residency program at Arad by Hadas Keidar
2014-2015 An internship in Mamuta Art & Media Center, Jerusalem
Group Membership
2016-2019 member of Indie Communal Gallery for photography
2016-2018 member in Atlas group 110, multidisciplinary artists group, offering a platform for working together and exhibiting via monthly art events.
Publication
2021 Front Crawl, dou exhibition catalogue with Shay Zilberman, curator: Ilanit Konopny
2021 2011-2020- Visual Anthology, published by Musrara
2021 Wul Magazine, link
2021 Portfolio magazine, interviw with Hagit Peleg Rotem, link
2021 How to Die Beautifully, catalogue, Contemporary Center for the Arts, Tel Aviv, Dr. Noam Gal
2021 Being With the Animal, catalogue, “Haaretz” Collection, Efrat Livni, pp. 32-35
2020 Avi Pitchon, Art review at Haaretz Newspaper, link
2020 Naama Riva, Art review at Haaretz Newspaper, link
2020 Harama Magazine. Vol. number 28
2020 Eruvin, Poetry magazine, Vol. 5
2019 Eruvin, Poetry magazine, Vol. 4
2019 Between the stations 1998-2018: Twenty years to the Kav 16 gallery, published by Kav 16 Gallery
2019 Harama Magazine. Vol. number 25
2019 Koma 6 Magazine. Internet exhibition, curated by Deborah Fischer
2017 Pahhhad – A newsletter for Michelle Ootivsky’s exhibition From the 70’s till Infinity. Herzliya Museum
Curator: Ori Drumer
2017 The Ethnographic Department of Museum of the Contemporary – Collection of articles, edited by Sela Menka Group Published by The Underground Academy Press and Hearat Shulaym. P. 40
2016 Ellipsis. Art magazine, issue 01, p. 81
Special projects
2019 Wake Up Chen, 72 hour performance event broadcasted live on the web, held at The Refrigerator Art Center, Tel Aviv Collaborators: Yali Raichert, Ariel de Lion, Idan Peer
2015 Paradise, sculptured project- paradise in the center of the city, white facade bounding a garden expropriated from the public, with Maamuta, Hansen house.
2015 The Guy Ben hinum quire, production of the project with direction from Noam Inbar
2015 The hallway, production of a series of exhibitions in the students gallery in Musrara Multidisciplinary School of Art
2015 The ethnographic department of the museum of the now- an exhibition dealing with the meeting point between ethnography and art, between the tradition and the now, between the, the public and the private, in Israel while referring to the historian aspect of the physical space where it exists, The hospital for the leprous
2014 Illumination event- 12 artists from different areas responded to the space that used to be a hospital for the leprous, interacting and engaging with it. A homage to an historical event that rekindled the art scene in Jerusalem at the beginning of the millennium. An event by Sela house and Footnote