Ester Schneider
Born 1978 in USSR, lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Ester Schneider earned her Des and her MFA at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
Schneider works mainly in painting and installation. Her work is inspired by a multiplicity of cultural arenas, including Jewish mysticism, Persian miniatures, and Russian modernism. Schneider's work both connects and sustains contradictions, dealing with identity and faith and how they interfere with the gaze, while creating a visual and structural realm.
Schneider's work has been shown extensively in local art institutions and in various international venues, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Eretz Israel Museum, Museum on the Seam, The Jerusalem Biennial, The Israeli Drawing Biennial, The Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, The Tel Aviv Artists' Studios, Basis Gallery in Herzliya, ZUMU – Mobile Museum, Hamidrasha Gallery, Inga Gallery, Gallery at The Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem, RawArt Ga;;ery om Te; Avov. Triumph Gallery in Moscow, and gallery of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles.
Schneider is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture Award in Visual Arts (2019), the Ilana -Bezalel Prize for Excellence in the Arts (2016), the Givon Prize (2012), and the Young Artist Prize by the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport (2011), as well as excellence awards from the Advanced Studies Programs at Bezalel and Hamidrasha - Beit Berl College.
Her works are included in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum and Ha'aretz, and in private collections in Israel and abroad.
Exhibitions at RawArt Gallery
Artist Websites
Education
2007-2009 MFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
2005-2007, The School of Art – Hamidrasha, Beit Berl Academic College
2004-2005 Associates program, ALMA, Home for Hebrew Culture
1999-2003 B.Des, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Solo Exhibitions
2022-2023 Temperance, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger
2020 Rouge, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger
2019 Hands Up, Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv, curated by: Vered Zafran-Gani
2018 Moments of Waking Up, Platt and Borstein Galleries at the University Gallery of the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA, curated by: Rotem Rozental, (with Avital Burg)
2015 Moon Peacock Flower, The Artists House, Tel Aviv, curated by: Sarit Shapira
2014 The Large Glass, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, curated by: Dalia Levin, Ghila Limon and Tal Bechler
2012 A Rainbow in a Cherubine’s Hair, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 Dual Attachment, Art Cube Gallery at the Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem, curated by: Iris Mendel (Catalog), (with Nevet Yitzhak)
2011 Tashmishim, Hahanut Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Oded Vertesh
2010 A Lofty Lady Put Her Shoe On, the Gallery at the New Artists’ Community, Kiryat Tivon, curated by: Yifat Ben Natan
2008 Sheen Seen, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Doron Rabina
Group Exhibitions
2024 Behind the Mask, Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Jerusalem, curated by: Vera Pilpoul, Ermanno Tedeschi
2024 Believe, Manofim Festival, Jerusalem, curated by: Rinat Edelstein
2023 Autonomous Art Biennale, Gymnasia “Herzliya” Tel Aviv, curated by: Dr. Roy Brand, Sandra Weil, and Rula Khoury
2022 Shai Yehezkelli | Ester Shcneider | Siona Shimshi, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, curated by: Orit Mor
2021 Storm in a Tea Cup: Issachar Ber Ryback in Dialogue, The Bat Yam Museum of Art and Sholem Asch Museum, curated by: Naama Arad and Hila Cohen-Schneiderman
2021 What Was Done and What Happened, Kupferman Collection, Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot, curated by: Tal Bechler
2021 Skein: new acquisitions for the Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Israeli Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, curated by: Dalit Matatyahu and Amit Shemma
2021 Exorcizing the West, The Wrong Biennale, Digital, curated by: Jonathan Touitou
2020 Great Mother, Beit Uri and Rami Nehostan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov Meuhad, curated by: Smadar Keren
2019 Raw Art, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger
2019 Disorientation, New Gallery Artists' Studios Teddy, Jerusalem, curated by: Irena Gordon (Catalog)
2018 The Museum Presents Itself III: Remotely Related, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2018 Illuminations, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia, curated by: Roy Brand
2017 Thou Shalt Not, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, curated by: Raphie Etgar
2017 ZUMU 0.1, inaugural exhibition of ZUMU, Yeruham, curated by: Milana Gitzin-Adiram and Ofra Harnam
2017 Watershed, The Jerusalem Biennale, Jerusalem
2017 Spreading Out, Basis Gallery, Herzliya, curated by: Shlomit Breuer
2016 Alt-Neu, Rosenbach Contemporary, Jerusalem, curated by: Nogah Davidson
2015 Out of Proportions, The Open University Gallery, Ra’anana, curated by: Carmit Blumensohn
2015 Present Work, Jerusalem Biennale, Jerusalem, curated by: Avital Naor Wexler
2014 Woven Consciousness, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, curated by: Irena Gordon
2013 Mythographies, Bezalel Gallery, Jerusalem, curated by: Roy Brand and Sagit Mezamer
2013 Traces V: Beyond Paper, 5th Biannale for Drawing in Israel, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, curated by: Tal Yahas
2012 The Left Hand: the Faculties of Satan and the Work of Art, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Menahem Goldenberg and Galili Shahar
2012 Winners 2011, Ministry of Culture and Sport Prizes in Art and Design, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, curated by: Naomi Aviv
2010 Silent Mess, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Sandra Weil
2010 Art on Fire, Contemporary by Golconda, Tel Aviv, curated by: Tali Tamir
2009 Factory, Hatachana, Tel Aviv, curated by: Sarit Shapira, Bezalel M.F.A graduate show
2008 Goyim, The New Gallery Artists' Studios Teddy, Jerusalem, curated by: Andrey Lev
2007 Paper, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Press
2023 Ouzi Zur, A Review of Ester Schneider's Solo Exhibition, Temperance, Haaretz, 04.01.23, (Heb)
2021, An article published on Sources, Sources, 20/10/2021, (EN)
2020 Ouzi Zur, A review of Ester Schneider's solo show "Rouge", 4.2.2020, (Heb)
2020 Yonatan Zofi, Marbe Einaim: Ester Schneider, Marbe Einaim, 17.5.2020, (Heb)
2019 Ouzi Zur, A review of Ester Schneider's solo show "Hands Up", Ha'aretz, (Heb)
2016, Winning The Ilana Elovic - Bezalel Prize, 24.08.16
2015 Sarit Shapira, Alenbi and Uman: On Ester Schneider's "Moon Peacock Flower", Erev Rav, 27.7.15, (Heb)
2012 Ouzi Zur, A review of Ester Schneider's solo show "A Rainbowin a Cherubine's Hair", Haaretz, 31.5.12, (Heb)
2008 Dr. Ḳetsiʻah ʻAlon, A review of Ester Schneider's solo show "Sheen Seen", Globes, 03.06.08, (Heb)
Roy "Chicky" Arad, A review of Ester Schneider's solo show "Sheen Seen", Sources, 21/10/2021, (EN)
Collections
Ha'aretz Collection, Tel Aviv
Ruth and Baruch Rappaport Israeli Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Collection, Tel Aviv
Private collections