Sharon Etgar (b. 1975) is an Israeli artist, whose practice includes painting, collage-making, textile and sewing works. Etgar is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (1997-2001) as well as the Jerusalem Studio School for Painting and Drawing (2003-2007). Etgar’s work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in a wide range of public and private collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers Univesity, New Jersey, and the Werner and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky Collection. Recent exhibitions include ‘People with the Sense of Possibilty’, The New Gallery Musrara, Jerusalem (2018); ‘Lacuna’, Taylor Galleries, Dublin (2017); ‘In line’, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia (2015); ‘Veiling and Unveiling’, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv (2014); ‘Everyone Carries a Room Inside’ Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (2014); ‘Moby Dick’, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv (2013); ‘Thread Drawings’, Davis and Langdale Gallery, New York (2013); Etgar lives and works in Tel Aviv and teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
Solo Exhibitions:
2018 ‘Into the Box Circle’, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 Recent works, Davis & Langdale Gallery, New York
2013 ‘Thread Drawings’, Davis & Langdale Gallery, New York
2012 Recent works, Davis & Langdale Gallery, New York
2011 Sharon Etgar: Collage, Davis & Langdale Gallery, New York
2010 Oils and Papers, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Group Exhibitions:
2019 ‘Keeping At Distance’, Petah Tikva Museum
2019 Works by Ariel Berlatsky & Sharon Etgar, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 ‘People with the Sense of Possibility ‘, The New Gallery Musrara, Jerusalem
2017 ‘Recent Contemporary works’, Davis & Langdale Gallery, New York
2017 ‘Since the Breath of Primeval Time’, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017 ‘Lacuna’, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2016 ‘Recent works’, Davis & Langdale Gallery, New York
2016 ‘A gallery selection: Recent Acquisitions’, Davis & Langdale Gallery, New York
2015 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Davis & Langdale Gallery, New York
2015 ‘In Line’, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia
2015 ‘Summer exhibition’, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 ‘Veiling and Unveiling’, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 ‘Everyone carries a room inside’, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
2013 ‘Moby Dick’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2012 ‘5 Artists on paper’, Davis & Langdale Gallery, New York
2012 ‘Veronique Doisneau’, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 The Unbelievable is Right Here, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv
2009 Opening Exhibition, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv
2008 Antithesis, Gallery of the Jerusalem Studio School, Jerusalem
2006 Transcriptions, Gallery 33, Tel Aviv
2005 Objects and Compassion, Gallery 33, Tel Aviv
2005 Deadend, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Galleries:
Davis & Langdale Company, New York www.davisandlangdale.com
Inga Gallery www.inga-gallery.com
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia www.galleryjoe.com
Collections:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Werner and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
25 Private collections
Teaching:
2013-2019 The Bezalel Academy of Arst and Design
2007 –2013 The Jerusalem Studio School for painting and drawing
2010-2011 The Jerusalem Studio School, summer program, Tuscany, Italy
Links:
www.tilted-arc.com/2013/11/19/backstory-sharon-etgar/