Department of Photography
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David Adika is a photographer, artist, and Head of the Photography Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. A senior lecturer in the Department of Photography since 1999, he holds bachelor’s (BFA) and master’s (MFA) degrees from Bezalel.
David Adika’s work focuses on the visual and cultural facets of the local Middle Eastern space as a microcosm that reflects his social and family identity. His photographic corpus contains representations of various still life and portraits, blurring the boundaries between abstract conceptual language and lavish visual accuracy. Adika’s visual research explores intimate yet universal biographies, while the photographs unfold familiar and unfamiliar aspects of everyday life and highlight questions of taste and social status.
Adika has had many solo exhibitions in Israeli and international venues, among them Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Art Museum in Riga, Latvia, Bologna MUSEI, Casa Morandi, Italy, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv. He has won many awards, including the Minister and the Emerging Artist Prizes from the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the Jack Nailor Award for Photography. His photographs are included in many collections, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Casa Morandi in Italy, the Knesset and private collections in Israel and abroad.
He lives in Jaffa and works in Jerusalem
Born in Jerusalem 1976.
B.F.A. program at The Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem in 2002 (with Hons)
2005 M.F.A program at Goldsmiths, London
Since 2006 Israeli teaches painting at the Fine Arts Department of Bezalel.
She also teached at Minshar School of Art, Basis Art School, Shankar Collage for Engineering and more.
Among Israeli's solo exhibitions: Black Light, Maya Galley, Tel-Aviv;
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Ralli Museum Caesarea;
D'une forte mer à une faille géologique, Taylor Foundation, Paris;
Moledet 1B ,Ashdod Art Museum;
Generation Three, Feinberg Projects, Tel-Aviv;
Last City, at the Tavi Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv;
Bio Power at the Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv;
Selected group exhibitions at :Haifa Museum, Haifa; Kav 16 Gallery, Tel-aviv; Gallery 39, Tel-Aviv; Art Forum, Berlin; FA Projects, London; Hanngar Bicocca, Milano; Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod; Feinberg Projects, Tel-Aviv; Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi'n; Zemack Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Winzavod - Moscow Contemporary Art Center, Moscow; The Artists’ Studio, Tel-Aviv; Ramat-Gan Museum; Minshar for Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Gallery, Fresh Paint art Fair, Tel-Aviv; Noga Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Israeli also curated painting exhibitions for young artists.
Israeli has received various awards and stipends, including: The Rabinovich Foundation;The Mifal HaPayis support; The Asylum Arts, New York; Erasmus; The Taylor Foundation, Paris; The Bezalel's Achievement award; The Artists Residence Herzliya; Lauren & Mitchell Presser studio stipend; The Sharet Award for young artists by the America -Israel Cultural Foundation; M.F.A fund from the AIA London; and was shortlisted to the Celeste Art Prize.
