Igor Zeiger was born in 1977 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to Mark Zeiger, an engineer and Larisa Yavetz, schoolteacher. He graduated from Tashkent University of Information Technologies with master's degree in communications. Zeiger immigrated to Israel in 2000, living first in kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, then Rehovot and moving to Tel Aviv in 2011.[2] Igor Zeiger lives and works in Jaffa.
Career
Zeiger started with documentary photography as an autodidact. He studied in Studio Gavra School of Photography in class of Sagit Zluf Namir, graduating in 2012. His mentors included David Adika, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz and Nissan N. Perez. In April 2015, Zeiger's photograph was published on the cover of "Israeli Lens" magazine, predecessor of international "Lens Magazine".[3] In 2016, Igor's photograph was chosen as a poster photo for Paco Anselmi documentary film "Karam: A Matter Of Karma", screened at TLVFest.[4] Zeiger lives and works in Jaffa. Zeiger is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a member of Israeli Association of Visual Artists and Royal Photographic Society. Zeiger founded artistic cooperative Beam Collective together with two fellow artists Maria Rosenblatt and Erica Tal-Shir in 2018.[5]
Zeiger works have been published in the several magazines and newspapers around the world, including Haaretz, Calcalist, Sky Arte Italia, Devour Madrid, Israeli Lens, Lens Magazine, Noviny Kraje and The North American Post, Queer.de.
Maria Rosenblatt (left), Alec Soth(center) and Zeiger during the opening of the International Photography Festival 2019 in Israel
Exhibitions
Solo
2015 "Same as You". "Mazeh 9" Municipal Gallery. Tel Aviv.[6]
2017 "Secret Postcard" Project. Fresh Paint 7 Art Fair. Tel Aviv
2017 "Books, gentlemen...books". Curated by Hanita Elizur. Social Sciences Faculty Library & Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
2018 "Queer Performance: From Gilbert & George to the Present Day". As part "Dangerous Art" exhibitions cluster curated by Svetlana Reingold. Haifa Museum of Art[19]
2018 "World Fair", Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio, USA
2018 "Secret Postcard" Project. Fresh Paint 8 Art Fair. Tel Aviv [20]
2018 "From nine to five". Curated by Hanita Elizur. Artist House Gallery. Rishon LeZion, Israel
2018 "Nope, still can't see any difference". Curated by Olga Yerushalmy-Sorokin. Abrahams Gallery. Tel Aviv.[21][22]
2019 "Barbarians: a censorship archive". Mamuta Art Research Center at Hansen House. Jerusalem[23][24]
2019 "From nine to five". Curated by Hanita Elizur. Social Sciences Faculty Library & Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.[25]
2020. "Eros and Thanatos". "Beam Collective" gallery. Jaffa.[33]
2020. "Curated by Social Networks". "Beam Collective" gallery. Jaffa.[33]
2021. "Same as You. Take Two". "Beam Collective" gallery. Jaffa.[33]
2022. "Ansel Adams, Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar". "Irrational Light" Gallery
Collections
Igor Zeiger works are in permanent collections of Haifa Museum of Art, Jerusalem Municipal Library, Yeiser Art Center, Klostergalerie Museum, Zehdenick; Caribbean Art Museum, Puerto Rico and United Kingdom Government Art Collection[38][39]
Bibliography
"UN//TITLED", An Anthology of Queer Contemporary Art (2016-2020). Published by "Balaclava.q"
References
"Igor Zeiger". America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
Tischenko, Alexander (2015-05-04). "Наши в Израиле". lady.tut.by. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
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