Mati Elmaliach
Born in Haifa 1979
Lives and works in Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
Academic Education
2017-19 - MFA. Bezalel Academy Of Art, Tel Aviv / Jerusalem
2005-09 - B.Ed.Des. Wizo Academy of Art, Design & Education, Haifa, (Department of Photography)
Solo Exhibition
2024 - And i, if i could, i would - Be'eri Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Sofie Berzon MacKie
2022 - Sometimes the heart asks strange things for itself - KAV-16 Community Gallery For Contemporary
Art Tel-Aviv. Curator: Karni Barzilay
2019 - And the sounds (sounded) far, far away - CACR. (Curator: Dr. Smadar Sheffi)
2018 - Blindfolded Landscapes - a duo exhibition with Dafna Shalom, P8 Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Curator: Or Teshova
2017 - looking back . gazing at the present - The Morel Derfler Gallery, Wizo Academy Haifa
2016 - Machu Picchu - P8 Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: ruth oppenheim
Group Exhibitions
2024
* Islands of Sanity - Beit HaGefen Gallery, Haifa. Curatorial program of the Department of Art History, University
of Haifa.
2023
* May Things Be? - The New Gallery – Artists' Studios Teddy, Jerusalem. Curator: Etty Schwartz
* Nerium oleander - Hanina Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Yoav Efrati
2022
* “Longing Be-longing:” On Post-Orientalist Influences in Contemporary Israeli Art.
Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, United Arab Emirates. Curator: Sharon Toval
2021
* Bloodline: The Artist's Family - Litvak Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Hadas Glazer
* Fabrications - Azrieli Gallery, Jerusalem. Curator: Tali Kayam
2020
* kitchen knife cut - ZUZU Gallery, Emek-Hefer. Curator: Ruty Chinsky-amitay
* Weaves - Artspace Tel-Aviv. Curator: Dalia Danon
2019
* Hshuma חְשוּמָה حشومة - Mact/Cact, Bellinzona , Switzerland. Curator: Sharon Toval
* Surface / Volume / Place - galil gallery, Acre. Curator: Hagar Bril
* G/host - Petach Tikva Museum of Art.
Curated by The MA program in the policy and theory of the arts at Bezalel
* Breaker - Beit Ha-be'er, Jaffa- Tel-Aviv. Curator: Adiya Porat
* Compass - Beit Kandinof, Jaffa. Curator: Ruven Kuperman
* Jerusalem - Self Portrait - On The Seam - Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Raphie Etgar
* Photography, in Fact - Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi'in. Curator: Yair Barak
2018
* Placeless: following Jacqueline Kahanoff - The new Gallery in Musrara, Jerusalem. Curator: Irena Gordon
* Hshuma חְשוּמָה حشومة - The Artists’ House, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Sharon Toval
* There is no other place - Fresh Paint 10, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Raz Shapira
* Mai Nafka Minnah? - MFA Gallery of Bezalel, Tel-Aviv
* 70.70.70 - Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara. CA. USA. Curator: Sagi Refael
* Re:Formation of the Jewish Body - American Jewish University, Bel Air, CA. USA. Curator: Sagi Refael
2017
* Beit Yad LeBanim- Indie Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Liav Mizrahi
* Talking paper - Fresh Paint 9 - Represented by Art Market Budapest, Tel-Aviv
* One of A kind - Fresh Paint 9 - Represented by the print hose, Tel-Aviv
* Aiming for touch (down) - P8 Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Sagi Refael
* A Milion Traces - Indie Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Maya Zehavi
2016
* Clearing - Florentine Quartet - art space, Tel-Aviv
* Zaher Lulu زهر لولو זׇאהֶר לוּלוּ - Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa. Curator: Poli Blum
* Ego – Trip - P8 Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Tamar Lev-On
2014
* Fresh Paint 7 - The Annual Contemporary Art Fair. Tel-Aviv
2013
* Missing Hadar, Modern Architecture in Hader Ha-Carmel - Haifa Museum of Art. Curator: Inbar Dror Lax
2009
* Secret Art 4 - Manni hose – Leumi , Tel-Aviv
* Excellent Graduates Exhibition - Wizo Academy, hangar 2 Gallery, Jaffa
* Home - Apart. Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Rotem Ritov
Awards, Grants and Residencies
* 2018 The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation | Bezalel Academy Residency Program
* 2008-10 America – Israel creative excellence grants (sharett)
Collections
* The knesset Art Collection
* Amos Schocken Art Collection
* The New Israel Fund
* Soho House Art Collection
* Private collections