Sharon Glazberg
Born 1976 in Israel, lives and works in Israel.
Sharon Glazberg (b. 1976, Israel) is an artist and cultural entrepreneur. She creates in the Israeli and international art fields. Glazberg is a graduate of the Mandel Institute for Cultural Leadership and a graduate of Respiratory Therapy. She facilitates and leads initiatives that connect art and communities with various councils and organizations. She currently teaches art at the University of Haifa, Oranim College, and lectures in various settings throughout the country.
Sharon specializes in the connection between art and communities and is a co-founder of Zumoo - the Mobile Museum - a community-based museum. She established the community-based artist residency program at Zumoo and the Asif, the first social collection in the country. Glazberg exhibits solo shows in galleries and public spaces in Israel and abroad. She graduated with honors from the San Francisco Institute of Art Studies and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree with honors from the University of Haifa. She has won an America-Israel Foundation Fellowship, the Islip Museum Award in New York, and the Award for Excellence from the San Francisco Art Institute. She worked for three years under a Community Artist Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, and won the Minister's Award in 2015. In 2019, she received a grant for an artist's book from the Mifal HaPais and in 2023 she won the Becky Dekel Award of Excellence.
Exhibitions at RawArt Gallery
Artist Websites
Education
2021 Mandel Foundation Scholar,
2020-2021 Certified H.L.B.T Therapist, Nimrod Kaufman, Israel
2004-2005 MFA with honors, Haifa University, Haifa
1998-2000 BFA with honors, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Solo Exhibitions
2026 The Land Asks For More, Umm al-Fahm Museum of Art, Umm el Fahm, curated by: Galia Bar Or & Haneen Abed
2025 ATRA, Neve Schechter Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Sharon Glazberg & Bar Yerushalmi
2023 Mycelium, Neve Schechter Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Bar Yerushalmi
2021 Nowhere, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger
2019 Asiff, Zumo Museum, Hatzor HaGlilit
2018 Garden Keepers, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz HaZorea, curated by: Rotem Ruff & Anat Turbowitz
2018 Meridian, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Leah Abir
2015 Mishkan, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, curated by: Galia Bar Or and Noam Segal
2014 Silent Protests, Kav16 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 Geography of Salon, ST-ART, Tel Aviv
2011 Works, Tmuna Theatre Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Aviva-a Way of an Elephant, Infiniti Show Room 69, Tel Aviv
2007 AGAMIM, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 Sea Level, Kav16 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004 Slide Up, The University Gallery, Haifa
2001 Projects 2001, Islip Museum, Central Islip
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 In Others’ Fields, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz HaZorea, curated by: Shelly Liebowitz Kalaora
2025-2026 Treasure Hunt!, Youth Wing, Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, curated by: Daniella Shalev
2025 What The Heart Dediers, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, curated by: Sari Golan
2021 Ego Land, Gallery 51, Modi'in, curated by: Nitza Perry
2020 Groundwater, The New Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art, Ramat Hasharon, curated by: Ravit Harari
2020 Open Skies, Tel Aviv, curated by: Avi Lubin
2020 Bodyscapes, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curated by: Dr. Adina Kamien-Kazhdan
2019 Nakanojo Biannale, Nakanojo
2019 The Green Village, The New Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art, Ramat Hasharon, curated by: Ravit Harari
2019 Raw Art, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger
2019 Breathing Space, Wilfrid Israel Museum, HaZore'a, curated by: Shir Meller-Yamaguchi
2019 Impersonating Myself / Becoming Myself, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, curated by: Shoshan Brosh-Vaitz and Zhang Fang
2018 Which Does Not Cease Not Being Written, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, curated by: Yoni Niv
2018 The Map - Reading Between the Lines, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, curated by: Batia Donner
2018 Seven Rituals to Change the Mood, Hayarkon 19 Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Avi Lubin
2018 To the End of Land, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, curated by: Drorit Gur Arie and Or Tshuva
2017 Agropolis, Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem
2017 More Love Hours than Can Ever Be Repaid, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Leah Abir
2017 Above and Beyond, Mekudeshet Festival, Jerusalem
2016 The Recipients: Ministry of Culture Awards in Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2015 The Last Sea - Israeli Art and the Sea, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod
2015 Agro-Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, curated by: Tali Tamir
2015 Beuys, Beuys, Beuys, Kav16 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 On Dry Land, The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva
2014 Concrete, Bulimia, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv
2014 Distributed Landscape, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 Can Never Go Back, Sound Sculpture, Heichal HaTarbut, Tel Aviv
2013 Not Book, Beit Ha'Ir, Tel Aviv
2013 Re: Visiting Rockefeller, Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem
2013 Local Pulse, Artists House, Tel Aviv
2013 Mother, Ravens!, Israeli Digital Art Center, Holon
2013 Cabinets of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2013 Home/Place, Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Umm el-Fahem
2013 Musrara Mix, Jerusalem
2011 Culture. Climate, Bezalel, Yaffo 23, Jerusalem
2011 The Ghosts of the Proletariat, Halalit Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 Beit Uri and Rami Nehostan Museum, Ashdot Ya'akov Meuhad
2011 Mapable, SpaceCamp MicroGallery, Indianapolis
2010 Dreaming, S2 project Room, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Island, MoBY, Bat Yam
2010 Natural Conflict: Video and Photography from Israel, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
2009 Drawer Plan, CCA, Tel Aviv
2009 Real Sci-Fi, Bezalel MFA Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 The Roaring Stuffed Animal, Sturman Museum, Ein Harod
2009 A Bridge Over the Mediterranean, Video Biennial
2009 Nuit Blanche, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris
2007 Seven Sculpture, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 John Skis or Sally Swims, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
2005 Body Politics, The Jewish Museum, New York
2003 Tensionism, Kenny Schachter’s 132 Perry Street, New York
2000 Short Films and Videos, Stanford University Gallery, Stanford
2000 Paladar, Cuban Biennial 2000, Havana
Zumo on the Move, Kiryat Yam, curated by: Milana Gitzin Adiram, Ofra Harnam & Ruth Oppenheim
Grants & Awards
2026 Outset Foundation Grant,
2025 Psychedelics Design Awards, PSYCHEDELICS DESIGN
2023 The Becky Dekel Award,
2019 Grant for Artist Book, Mifal HaPais
2018 Grant for Video Art, Mifal HaPais
2016 Artist in the Community Award, The Ministry of Culture
2015 Exhibition Grant, Mifal Hapis
2015 The Ministry of Culture Award,
2015 The Ostrovsky Family Fund, New Providence
2005 Grant, America Israel Foundation
2003 The Dean Fellowship, Haifa University
2001 Projects 2001 awards, Islip Museum, East Islip
2000 The New Genera award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Selected Press
2026 Yuval Saar, A place where words fail: "We didn't talk about art during wartime", Potfolio Magazine, 23.01.26
2023 Linda Dayan, ‘We All Need Therapy Now’: The Tel Aviv Gallery Offering Breathing Space From the War, Haaretz, 25.10.23, (Eng)
2021 Avi Pitchon, A review of Sharon Glazberg's solo exhibition Nowhere, Haaretz, 02.04.21, (Heb)
2020 Gilad Melzer, A review of Sharon Glazberg's solo exhibition Bodyscapes, Haaretz, 11.3.2020, (Heb)
2016 Meital Raz, An interview with Sharon Glazberg, TimeOut Magazine, 25.9.2016, (Heb)
2014 Noa Hazan, A review of Sharon Glazberg's solo exhibition Silent Protests, Erev Rav, 31.10.14, (Heb)
Collections
Ein Harod Museum of Art Collelction
Ha'aretz Collection
ORS Collection
Private Collections
ST-Art Collection
Private collections