PARTICIPANT / Margot Gran
- Name Margot Gran
- Country Israel
- Vocation Not Available
- Education Not Available
Margot Gran, born 1967, USA, Lives and works in Karkur, Israel
Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate with honors, from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, (1991). Award winner of the Mary Fisher Award (1991), Keren Sharet Grants (1991, 1992) and the Artist Encouragement Award (1995). Artist Teacher Grant (2013-2014). Graduate of Art Therapy Studies, Bet Berl College, finished with honors (2001).
Margot Gran works in watercolor on paper, oil and sketching engraved in ceramics. Her work brings a close and intimate view of the supposedly simple things in everyday life and objects from the kitchen and from the natural world in the garden and landscapes along the roads in Israel.
She has exhibited in single and group shows in Israel and worldwide. The Artits House in Jerusalem , Artists House Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum, Eretz Yisrael Museum Tel Aviv, Cabri Gallery, Cliff Gallery Netanya, City House Tel Aviv, Hansen House Jerusalem, Print Workshop Jerusalem, Kaner House Rishon L’Tzion, Artspace TLV, Triangle Art Space Tel Aviv and North Carolina Museum of Art,.
Resume – Margot Gran
Education
1999 – 2002 Graduate of Art Therapy Faculty, Beit Berel College of Art, Israel 1987 – 1991 BFA with honors, Fine Arts Dept. Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel. 1986 – 1987 Kalisher Art College, Tel Aviv 1983 – 1986 Telma Yalin High School of Arts, Givatayim, Israel
Awards, Fellowships, Grants
2013 Artist’s Teacher Grant, Ministry of Culture and Sports 1995 Artists Encouragement Award, Ministry of Culture and Sports 1992 Keren Sharet (America- Israel Foundation) Grant 1991 Mary Fisher Award, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design 1991 Helena Rubenstein Foundation Scholarship 1991 Keren Sharet (America- Israel Foundation) Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Project Runway 2: Pack & Go, Artist’s House, Jerusalem. Curator: Sorana Schneider 2011 When we walked on the Moon, Givat Haim Ihud Gallery, Curator: Hanush Morag 2011 Playgrounds, Water Tower Municipality Gallery, Nahariya, Curator: Felix Lachowitz 2009 Project Runway, Cliff Gallery, Netanya, curator: Monica Lavi. 1997 Die Hard 4, Yavneh Arts Workshop Gallery, curator: Monica Lavi 1996 A House of My Own, Artist’s Workshop Gallery, Rishon, curator: Kobi Harel 1996 Freedom Is a Movement, Kamera Obscura Gallery in Tel-Aviv, curator: Vered Meimon 1995 Farewell to Arms, ‘Bezalel’ Gallery, Jerusalem, curator: Yehudit Sasportas 1995 Still Waters, Lips nightclub, Tel Aviv, curator: Nella Cassuto
Group Exhibitions
2018 Painting Landscapes, Artists House Tel Aviv. Curators: Ruth Marcus and Ruti Chinsky 2017 Present Time, Sara Erman Gallery. Curator Mira Ceder 2017 Heaven and Earth, Sara Erman Gallery, Curator Anat MIchaelis Levi
2017 The Mimosa Hour, Artists House Modiin. Curator: Alejandra Okrat 2016 Fake, Tel Aviv Museum. Curator Dr. Doron Lurie 2016 8th Israeli Ceramics Bienielle, Eretz Yisrael Museum, Tel Aviv. Curator: Eran Erlich 2016 Fresh Paint Art Fair, Project Date with an artist. Curator: Sari Golan 2016 Triangular Show, Triangle Art Space, Tel Aviv. Curator Sari Golan 2015 Tando, Hansen House, Jerusalem. Curator: Avital Naor Wexler 2015 Yes-No, Black White, Meirov House, Art Center Holon. Curator: Guy Morag 2014 Covers, Koresh 14 Gallery, Jerusalem. Curator: Nomi Tannhauser 2014 Discoveries, Print Workshop Jerusalem, curator: Irena Gordon 2014 Lake, Margot Gran, Anat Michaelis Levi, Atalia Shachar, Artspace Tel Aviv, Curator: Nir Harmat 2013 Not Book, Museum of Urban Art, Tel Aviv, curator: Guy Morag 2012 We Are the Champions, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, and curator: Danna Heler 2012 Honey, Museum Kibbutz Yifat, Curators: Hagar Ben-Tzvi Pundak & Michal Shaknai 2012 Jewish-Arab Cooperative Gallery in the Galilee, Kibbutz Cabri, curator: Drora Dekel 2011 Transformation, Railway Station, Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv 2011 Raw Material, Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv 2011 Master Class, Diagilev Boutique Hotel, Tel Aviv, curator: Moran Shoub 2009-2013 Bread and Roses Art Sale, Tel Aviv, Israel 2007-2015 Secret Postcard Project, Fresh Paint Fair, Tel Aviv, Israel 2009 Now Me – Cliff Gallery, Netanya, curator: Monica Lavi 2008 Words at eye level – Bet Kanar, Rishon L’Tzion, curator: Efi Gen 2008 Difduf – drawing and artist books event, Siman Gallery, curator: Hagai Segev 2008 Knowing Fire, Florentine 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv, curators: Irena Gordon and Gilat Nadivi 2007 Self Portraits Mirroring Uri Reizman, Kibbutz Cabri Gallery, curator: Drora Dekel 2007 Kibbutz Cabri Celebrates 30 years, Cabri Gallery, curator: Drora Dekel 2006 Dinamo Mascha, Cliff Gallery, Netanya, curator: Monica Lavi
2006 Reconciliation Bowls, Ramat Gan Museum, curators: Dafna Zmora, Orna Shestovitch 2004 Exhibit 35, Etchings, Jerusalem Printshop, curators: Erena Gordon Arik Kilemnik 2004 Defying Gravity, Museum of Art, North Carolina, curator: Huston Paschal 1999 Six Open Tables, Mussrara Gallery, Jerusalem, curator: Rachel Sukman
1998 Khoj ‘98, International Artists Workshop, New Delhi, India
. curator: Pooja Sood
1998 Women in the Real World, Limbus Gallery, Tel aviv, curator: Ofer Ze’evi.
1998 ID Number, Memorial Museum, Kiryat Tivon, Israel 1998 Tip of the Iceberg, National Gallery of Modern Art, India, curator: Nella Cassuto 1996 Women’s Time, The Artists House, Haifa, curator: Nella Cassuto 1995 Prologue, Award Exhibition, Artists House, TA. curator: Ilana Tennenbaum 1995 Lick My Varnish, Names nightclub, Tel Aviv. Curator: Nir Hod 1994 Sealed For Freshness, Art Focus, TA Central Bus Station. Curator: Sarit Shapira 1994 Documentary’94, Art Focus, Tel Aviv Central Bus Station. Curator: Sarit Shapira
Artist Residency
: 1998 Khog India. Curator and hostess Pooja Sood
Collections
: Private collectors and collections in
Associated Programmes
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International WorkshopsKhoj 1998 (Modinagar)
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