Leor Grady
Born in Israel.
Lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Education
2002 BA, Visual Arts, SUNY, Empire State College
1995 School of Visual Theater, Jerusalem,Diploma
Selected Exhibitions
2023
In this Earth In this Soil, Artport, Tel Aviv
White days, Ramat Hasharon Contemporary Art Gallery (S)
Cut, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2022
Play Dead, Artspace Tel Aviv
As Blue, Ehad Haam 9 Gallery, Tel Aviv (S)
2021
In Another Green, Galerie Romain Roland, Alliance Francaise de Delhi, New Delhi
SIMAN - A Tribute to My Late Father, Gallery 4, Tel Aviv (S)
2019
Haifa Bauhaus – Is There Such a Thing?, Hadarion, Haifa
Back to Artport, Artport gallery, Tel Aviv
Bethlehem, Neve Schechter gallery, Tel Aviv, (S)
Foreign Bodies, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv (S)
Jacqueline Kahanoff: The Levant as a Parable,Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2018
Last Chance to See, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
Rina Nikova, Biblica Ballerina, Hacubia Gallery, Jerusalem
The Museum Presents Itself III: Remotely Related, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Territories Unraveled, Jerusalem Artist’ House, Jerusalem
To The End of Land, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
Writing on The Wall, Threshold Gallery, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
Neo-Monumental, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2017
Tarzan on a Bed Sheet, The Art Workshop, Ramat Eliyahu, Rishon LeZion
Anthem, MFA Gallery of Bezalel Academy
Supernature, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
The Heart is A Lonesome Singer, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod
Blueprints I, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv
En Masse: Books Orchestrated, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Local Compilation, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod
2016
Natural Worker, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv (S)
Stronger Than a Rock, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv
Textile Territory Text, Mana Contemporary , Jersey City, NJ
Briser La Glace, Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
Divagation, Y Gallery, New York, NY
Queering the BibliObject, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2015
Txt: art, language, media, The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling NY, NY
Stains and Stampings, Beit Ahoti, Tel Aviv and Nazareth Art Gallery
The Heart Covets all that is Beautiful, STA Gallery, Tel Aviv (S)
2014
Black King, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv (S)
Nonfinito, Artport Gallery, Tel Aviv
Until You Get Out Of My Voice, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod
Yeshnan Banot, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv (S)
2012
Before You, 360 Gallery, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (S)
Untitled (Bedroom), P3 Studio, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV (S)
Figured, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Objects of Affection, Y Gallery, New York, NY (S)
2011
The Walls That Divide Us, apexart, New York, NY
Imaginary Homelands, Mina Gallery, New York, NY
From Origin to Originality, The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, New York, NY
A Line Made By Walking, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Urban Legend, Vaudeville Park Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Border Line, Dana Gallery, Yad Mordechai,Israel
A Strange Affinity to the Beautiful and the Dreadful, Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY
2010
YouTube Play Shortlist. A Biennial for Creative Video. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Intimate Portraits, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
I Am My Beloved’s And My Beloved is Mine, Hillview Towers, NY,NY (S)
Untitled (cabinet), Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY (S)
2009
Outwin Boochever Portrait competition, The Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, DC
Home Base Project IV, Lower East Side, New York, NY
Flow:art/text/new media, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Small Is The New Big, Rush Arts Gallery, Scope Art Fair, NY
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2022
MusART Artist-in-Residence Program, Universität Hamburg
2021
Artist-in-Residence La Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2017
Prize to Encourage Creativity, Ministry of Culture and Sport
2015
The Ostrovsky Family Fund
Israel Lottery Council for Art and Culture
2013-14
Artport The Center For Young Art, Tel Aviv
2012
Artist-In-Residence, Art Production Fund, P3 Studio Cosmopolitan of Las vegas, LV, NV
2011
Artis Professional Development Workshop Grant (with Creative Capital), New York, NY
2005
Makor Artis-in-Residence, New York, NY
1996
Jerusalem Fund Creation Prize, Jerusalem, Israel
Bibliography
2022
Uzi Tzur, Not on The Thing Alone. Haaretz, March 1.
2021
Achia Anzi, Migration, Exile, and Homecoming in the Book of Ruth, Open Theology, De Gruyter journal. October 2021.
Uzi Tzur, Melody of Life. Haaretz, May 7
2020
Uzi Tzur, Natural worker the Book. Haaretz, July 12
2019
Uzi Tzur, Skinless Man. Haaretz, July 22
Uzi Tzur, Crown of Creation. Haaretz, February 25
2017
Uzi Tzur,Tel Aviv art show shines spotlight on the rejects of the Zionist consensus. Haaretz, January 14
Eness Elias, Kinneret Yemenites Expelled in Golden Embroidery. Haaretz, January 5.
2014
Dr. Ktzia Alon. Black King in a Building Lobby. Erev-Rav.com Dec. 16
Until You Get Out of My voice. Catalog
Galia Yahav. “Me’al Hayam Hakalu”. Haaretz, July 27
Uzi Tzur. “Bo Nedaber Pituyim”. Haaretz, May 2
Ravit Harari. “Al Kav Hatefer”. Nisha Magazine. Published February issue. Pp 67
2013
The Rothfeld Collection, Sternthal Books
2012
Peterson,Kristen. Best of 2012: Arts News and Art Exhibits. Las Vegas Weekly. December 27.
Reviews in Brief.New York/Los Angeles. Modern Painters. April issue
Peterson,Kristen. “Artist Leor Grady says the truth is in the bedding”. Las Vegas Weekly. February 29.
Garwood, Deborah. “Embroidery as Existentialism: Leor Grady’s Objects of Affection”. Artcritical.com February 5.
2009
O’Sullivan, Michael. “The Story Behind The Work: Leor Grady’s Self Portrait”. Washington Post. Published November 12.
Outwin Boochever Portrait competition, Exhibition Catalog
Shinan Avigdor. Pirke Avot, Yedioth 2009, Pp 26
Ryzik , Melena. “At a Clinic, Artists Reflecting on Home”. New York Times. Published: May 10
Flow:art/text/new media, Exhibition Catalog
2008
Mama’s Boy , Exhibition Catalog
Levy, Yasmin. “Mama’s Boy”. Yediot Aharonot , January 25,
Amir,Yonatan. “Birth Space” maarav.org.il March 08.
Artis 08, Catalog
2007
Block#04/Occasional Cities, Block Magazine
Hung Zine, Issue II, Summer/Fall
2006
Garwood, Deborah. “By-and-By Has No End”. Wburg.com. Winter
2005
Flavorpill.net cover design issue #263
Lectures and Talks
2016
Visiting Artist, Oranim Academic College
2015
Visiting Artist, Tel Aviv University, The Jews of Islamic Countries Archive Project
Visiting Artist, The NB Haifa School of Design, The Department of Photography, Media & Non Fiction Film
Visiting Artist, Bezalel, Department of Ceramics and Glass Design.
2014
Visiting Artist, Kibbutzim College. Art Department
2012
Ordinary Objects, Minor Archives: Reclaiming Power and History, Organized by ArteEast . Moderated by Barrak Alzaid.
Visiting Artist, BIMA/ Brandeis University
2011
Leor Grady and Carlos Motta discussed their participation in the exhibition The Walls That Divide Us at apexart, Curated by Miguel Amado