Bio

Oren Eliav (b. 1975, Israel) lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Eliav’s paintings are concerned with the mental and physical relationship between viewer and painting. Examining religious imagery and optical phenomena through painting, Eliav exposes the complex relationship between seeing and believing. By employing  various visual manipulations such as reflections, shifts in scale,  breaks in composition, mirror images, multiple perspectives, and so on, his works present themselves as a mirage-like territory where cultural knowledge and the physical act of seeing compete for a place in the viewer’s mind.  As such, they are able to encompass both illusion and disillusionment.

Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized by prominent galleries and museums such as BUILDING (2020, Milan), Israel Museum (2018, Jerusalem), Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery (2016, Paris), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011), Ashdod Museum of Art (2010), and Givon Gallery (2006, Tel Aviv).

Group shows Eliav has participated in include The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery (2007, Tel Aviv), Hanina Center for Contemporary Art (2008, Tel Aviv), Museum of Bat Yam (2008), Bezalel M.F.A Graduate Show (2009, Tel Aviv),  Ein Harod Museum (2009)  Braverman Gallery (2009, 2015, 2016, Tel Aviv), Glasgow School of Art (2009), Haifa Museum of Art (2009, 2015),  Liverpool Biennial (2010), Leipzig International Art Programme (2014),  Fondazione Giorgio Cini (2015, Venice), Pratt Institute (2016, Brooklyn),  Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2016), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2017), Bar- David Museum of Arts and Judaica (2019, Bar’am), and Haifa Museum of Art (2020).

Eliav is the recipient of America Israel Grant Award (2004), 2008 Ministry of Culture Award for Young Artist, the Encouragement Award by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2008), Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2010), Cité Internationale des Arts residency, (2013 Paris), Residency@Berlin, Schir – Art Concepts (2013, Berlin), Leipzig International Arts Program (2014), and 2017 Ministery of Culture and Sports Award.

His works belong in numerous public collections including Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Collection, C-Collection, Depardieu Collection, Tony Podesta Collection, Israeli Discount Bank Collection, ORS Collection, Art Partners Collection, Art Vantage Collection, Peggy Scott and David Teplitzky Collection, Serge Tiroche Collection, Dubi Shiloah Collection, Brandes Collection, Jaglom Family Collection, Hagit and Ofer Shapira Collection, Dubi Shiff Art Collection, Nili Lipman and Sara Szold Collection, Oli Alter Collection, Shemer Family Collection, as well as various private collections in Israel and abroad.

Eliav received his BFA (2005) and MFA (2009) from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem.

World Wide Exhibitions

Gallery Exhibitions

Gilad Efrat, Tal Yerushalmi​, Oren Eliav
Oren Eliav, Gabi Kricheli, David Korty, Marlene Mocquet, Jakob Roepke, Shai Azoulay, Avi Sabah

Art fairs

2019
November 1-3, 2019
2018
April 19 – 22, 2018
2012
November 8 – 11, 2012

Publications

Oren Eliav

Two Thousand and Eleven

Oren Eliav

Advent

Oren Eliav

Five Years

Oren Eliav

How to Disappear Completely

Stories

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Slope II, 2020, oil on canvas, 240x130 cm

Mirror IV, 2022, oil on canvas, 30x30 cm

Slope VII, 2023, oil on canvas, 90x90 cm

Installation view, From Mount Zero to Lake One, 2023, Braverman Gallery

Curve, 2020, oil on canvas, 100x100 cm

Call and Response, 2023, oil on canvas, 100x100 cm

Mount Zero, 2020, oil on canvas, 200x200 cm

Elevation (second dream), 2020, oil on canvas, 50x50 cm

Mirror VI, 2022, oil on canvas, 30x30 cm

Bird II, 2022, oil on canvas, 30x30 cm

Oren Eliav, Lucretia, 2018, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm

Oren Eliav, Ascent, 2017, oil on canvas, 200 x 230 cm

Oren Eliav, Arrival, 2017, oil on canvas, 200 x 230 cm

Oren Eliav, Descent, 2017, oil on canvas 200 x 230 cm

Oren Eliav, Disappearance, 2018, oil on canvas, 160 x 250 cm

Oren Eliav, I Was Told Your Eyes Would Shine, 2019, oil on canvas, 150 x 300 cm

Oren Eliav, Infant, 2016, oil on canvas, 125 x 250 cm

Oren Eliav, Infant (Tryptich), 2016, oil on canvas, side panels 260 x 150 cm each, central panel 180 x 260 cm

Oren Eliav, Infant, 2015, oil on canvas, 270 x 200 cm

Oren Eliav, Stone, 2018, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Oren Eliav, Stone, 2016, oil on canvas, 200 x 230 cm

Oren Eliav, Loom, 2018, triptych, oil on canvas, 3 panels, 240 x 110 cm each

Oren Eliav, Floor, 2018, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Floor (reflection), 2014, oil on canvas, 300 x 200 cm

Oren Eliav, Procession, 2014, oil on canvas , 200 x 270 cm

Oren Eliav, Transfiguration, 2019, oil on canvas, 200 x 230 cm

Oren Eliav, Transfiguration, 2014, oil on canvas, 200 x 260 cm

Oren Eliav, Transfiguration, 2014, oil on canvas, 160 x 215 cm

Oren Eliav, Infant, 2016, oil on canvas, 160 x 300 cm

Oren Eliav, Listener, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

Oren Eliav, Listener, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

Oren Eliav, Listener, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

Oren Eliav, Listener, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

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