︎shaharsivan@gmail.com
Born 1977
lives and works in Haifa, israel
Education
2003 Meetings with Lucian Freud in his studio in London
2001-2002 Master Class Jerusalem Studio School, Instructed by Israel Hershberg
2000-2001 Studio sessions with Leonid Belaklav
1997-2000 BFA Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
1996-1997 Studio sessions with Sabina Mandel
Solo Shows
2023 “Always Should Be Someone You Really Love”, Hapina, Haifa, Israel
“Dining with Others”, Duo exhibition with Roee Cohen, Haifa Museum of Art.
Curator: Oz Zloof
2022 “Morning Demons”, Beit Hagefen Art Gallery, Haifa, curator: Yael Messer
2020 “Total Recall”, Nemala Studio, Haifa, Israel
2019 “Review #5”, HQRN Art Cluster, Haifa, Israel
2016 “North by Northwest”, Bordel, Haifa, Israel
2013 “Nautilus”, Atelier Shemi Gallery, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
2012 “Lifeboat”, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 “Partial Quantity”, Tzadik Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 “Eraser”, Kayma Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Arak & Aras”, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Israel
2006 “Voodoo dolls”, Hazira interdisciplinary Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
“Block” (collaboration with Yotam Kupperberg), Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2003 “Latest work”, Congress Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 “Shaher Sivan”, Slow Moshe, Jerusalem, Israel
2000 “Hat thrown into space”, Stardust, Jerusalem, Israel
1998 “Portraits”, Haolam Haze, Haifa, Israel
Group Shows
2023 “Neviim”, Contemporary Local Print, The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem.
Curator: Meydad Eliyahu.
“Words and Words”, Poetry Place, Haifa. Curator: Shulamit Weinstein Israel
“Face to Face”, Tel-Hai Arts Institute, Tel-Hai. Curator: Michal Shachnai Yaakobi
“Days Out of Time - Artist Meets Testimony”, D10 Art Space, Geneva, Switzerland.
Curator: Yossi Vassid
“Days Out of Time - Artist Meets Testimony”, Aktives Museum Sudwestfalen, Siegen,
Germany. Curator: Yossi Vassid
“The Bureau of Assigning and Education”, Zumo Museum on the Move, Acre.
Curators: Milana Gitzin-Adiram, Shahar Ben-nun, Nardeen Srouji, Maayan Sheleff
2022 “Bread and Roses 17”, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Hagai Ulrich
“Memory Flash”, Ghetto Fighters' House, Kibbutz Lohame HaGeta'Ot, Israel
curator: Lilach Efraim
“Artist Meets Testimony”, Art & About Gallery, Emek Hefer, The Herzliya Hebrew
Gymnasium, Tel Aviv, Israel curator: Yossi Veissid
“Two Imaginary Points and the View”, Stairway Quarter, Haifa, Israel
curator: Zeela Kotler Hadari
“The art of practice”, Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel
curator: Esti Drori and Doron Polak
“City.Plan.Building II”, Haifa City Hall, haifa Israel
2021 “The 4th Mediterranean Biennale”, Wizo Academy of Design, haifa, Israel,
curator: Belu Simion Fainaru
“Bread and Roses 16”, Gallery of Artists’ Workshop, Tel Aviv, Israel
“City.Plan.Building”, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Haifa Road”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel curator: Kobi Ben Meir
2020 “Post Trauma, Corona quarantine time”, HQRN, Haifa, Israel
“Blind Date”, Harova, Haifa, Israel
2019 “Zumu the moving Museum, Station 4”, Kiryat Yam, Israel
“Zumu the moving Museum, Station 3”, Hazor, Israel
2018 “Vacuum”, Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel
“The Inner Child”, Kookoo’s Nest Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 “Absent Presence”, The Wilfrid Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea, Israel
“Zaher Lulu”, Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2013 “Winter 2013”, Kabri Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kibbutz Kabri, Israel
“Auction #29”, Kedem Auction House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 “Facelook”, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
“The Independent Salon”, Old Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Two years after”, Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat Gan, Israel
“Ghosts”, Tavi Dresner Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Communities”, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
“Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv”, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
“Portrait Now”, The City Gallery, Ramla, Israel
2010 “Haifa-Plovdiv”, Pigmalion House, Plovdiv, Bulgari
“More than Canvas”, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Talking Heads”, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Urban Landscapes”, Sara Arman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 “A little more”, Peka Gallery, Technion University, Haifa, Israel
“Kites”, Tzadik Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
“Artechtura”, ArTLV Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
“I’m out of town”, Dana Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
“Young Gallery Booth”, Fresh Paint Art Fair 2, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 “Mare Nostrum”, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Napoli, Italy
“Waves of Emotion”, International Painting Symposium, Pescara, Italy
“Haze”, Wizo Academy of Design, Haifa, Israel
2007 “Peinture Pure”, Cosoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy
“Footnote 11 Festival”, Jerusalem, Israel
“Cluster”, Pyramida Center of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
2006 “Incognito”, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
“Partners”, Wadi Nisnas, Haifa, Israel
“Secret Art Exhibition”, Mani House, Leumi Bank Headquarters, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 “A3 Israeli Drawing”, Pyramida Center of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
“Conversation 4”, Nachshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
“Four Walls”, Dwek Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
“Art Nonstop”, Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
“The Kitchen”, Pyramida Center of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
Residencies
2008 "Waves of emotions", International Painting Symposium Mediterranean in Art,Pescara, Italy
2007 “AP”, Gallery Lavendel Bloch, Ein Hod, Israel
2006 “Desert”, Rafram Hadad International Project, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
Teaching
2017-2020 Drawing and Sculpture at Haneviim Art School, Haifa, Israel
2018-2019 Sculpture at Tel-Hai Academic College, Tel Hai, Israel
2003-2018 Drawing and Painting classes at Nemala Studio, Haifa, Israel
2008-2010 Drawing at Tiltan College of Visual Design and Communication, Haifa, Israel
2004-2008 Drawing at Piramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
2002-2003 Drawing and Painting at Studio Hacongress, Tel Aviv, Israel
Special Projects
2018-2020 Founder and Art Director of HQRN Art Cluster, Haifa, Israel
2018-2019 Head Chef of Fattoush Bar Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2005-2019 Founder and Director of live model Session at Nemala Studio, Haifa, Israel
2016-2020 Co-Founder of Haneviim Art School, Haifa, Israel
2013-2017 Co-Founder and Head Chef of Venia Bistro, Haifa, Israel
2013-2018 Co-Founder of the Second-Wing Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2009-2013 Co-Founder of the Wing Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2005-2008 Co-Founder of the Block Art Group