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Nira Pereg (Hebrew: נירה פרג; born 1969) is an Israeli artist. She spent the 90s in New-York, where she received her BFA from Cooper Union at NYC. On her return to Israel, she graduated from the Bezalel MFA studio program in Jerusalem, and has been teaching internationally ever since.

Nira Pereg
Born	1969 Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Education	The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Known for	video art, video installation, photography
Movement	Israeli art
Website	http://www.nirapereg.net

Biography

Pereg spent the 1990s in New York, where she received her BFA from Cooper Union at New York City. Returning to Israel, she graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design MFA studio program in Jerusalem. Since then she has been teaching in several schools as Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Israel; Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany; University of California, San Diego; and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.^{[citation needed]}

Solo exhibitions

• 2018 Melt Away Before You or I Can't Believe it's Not Battle!, Laxart, Los Angeles, USA,
• 2017 This Red Red Stuff, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany[1]
• 2016 Ishmael, Braverman Gallery in collaboration with ‘On Stellar Rays’, New York, USA
• 2015 Ishmael, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2015 The Right to Clean, Israel Museum Ticho House, Jerusalem, Israel[2]
• 2015 Rights and Rites, Rose Art Museum, Boston, USA[3]
• 2015 Ishmael, Art Basel, Feature Section, Basel, Switzerland[4]
• 2014 Abraham Abraham & Sarah Sarah, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France[5]
• 2013 Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan[6]
• 2013 All This Can Be Reconstructed Elsewhere, CCA - The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel[7]
• 2013 67 Bows, Museum Ein Harod, Kibuts Ein Harod, Israel[8]
• 2013 Abraham & Sarah, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, USA[9]
• 2012 Kept Alive, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany[10]
• 2011 Black Box Series, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA[11]
• 2011 Sabbath, Chiado Museum, Lisbon, Portugal[12]
• 2011 ArtPowe, LOFT Video Gallery, UCSD San Diego, California, USA[13]
• 2010 Video of the Month, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
• 2010 LOOP Barcelona, Video-Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain[14]
• 2010 Tel-Aviv Museum of Art - Winner of the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, Tel-Aviv, Israel[15]
• 2010 Sabbath 2008, Santa Monica Museum of Art, L.A., California, USA[16]
• 2010 Kept Alive, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, L.A., California, USA[17]
• 2009 Sabbath 2008, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany[18]

• 2007 Rites and Rituals, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel[19]
• 2007 Roundabout, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel[20]
• 2004 Canicule, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel[21]

Publications

• Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah. Paris: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, 2014. ISBN 978-2-9133-9131-4
• All This Can Be Reconstructed Elsewhere. Tel-Aviv: The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), 2013. ISBN 978-965-7463-18-5
• Kept Alive Monograph. Tel-Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2011. ISBN 9789659170609

Awards and residencies

• Maratier Prize 2013, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France[5]
• Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize’s, 2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel[15]

Collections

• National Gallery of Canada[22]
• Centre Georges Pompidou,[23] Paris, France
• GAM – Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
• Sammlung Goetz, München, Germany
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
• Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel

References

External links

• Official site
• Nira Pereg's Videos in Vimeo

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