Itamar Freed
VOLTA NY 2017 BOOTH C3
Itamar Freed Born in 1987 in Manhattan, NY, Freed received his B.F.A from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2012. He is currently doing his M.F.A at the Royal College of Arts, Photography Program, London. Freed conjoins direct photography that depicts artificial, staged figures with realistic representations of portraits and landscapes. The regions of photography in which he works move between three expanses: the Israeli wilderness & nature, the Natural History Museum, New York and his home studio in Israel. The encounter between the three territories – the wild, the cultured and the staged, creates a deceptive sensation. Freed’s photographic aesthetics draw upon a return to the classic painting of art history, seeking to create for it a kind of contemporary photographic variation. Through the use of color, natural illumination at its extremes, via open composition and multiple vanishing points that simultaneously draw the observer’s eye to different foci of various events, the borders between dream and wakening are blurred, Freed’s photographic ambience exists as if in a threshold zone, beyond the bounds of specific time and place. Using the photography medium to preserve, to freeze, to grasp life and to seize time. Freed’s work has been showcased in solo exhibitions in the Ramat-Gan Museum of Art, Israel, and Feinberg Projects Gallery in Tel Aviv. His works were also shown in “NordArt 2016”, International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany, Musrara Gallery, Jerusalem, the Bezalel Gallery, Jerusalem etc. Freed has been the winner of the 2016 Clore - Bezalel Scholarship & a full Grant for a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Arts, London and the 2012 “EPSON” first prize for excellence in the art of photography. Freed’s works are in private and public collections worldwide including the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Collection, USA and the Clore Collection, London, UK and other private collections in Israel and abroad.
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Golden Wreath Wattle, 2015 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in. For inquiries please click here
Bush, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in. For inquiries please click here
Woman in Green, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X43.25 in. For inquiries please click here
Girl in Pine, 2015 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in. For inquiries please click here
Girl II, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 65X43.25 in. For inquiries please click here
Arizona #1, 2015 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X55 in. For inquiries please click here
Arizona #2, 2015 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X55 in. For inquiries please click here
Feeding Time, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in. For inquiries please click here
Invasive Species, 2014 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X43.25 in. For inquiries please click here
Burning Tree, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 65X43.25 in. For inquiries please click here
Red Flowers, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 23.5X35.5 in. For inquiries please click here
Red View, 2014 Inkjet print on archival paper 39.4X59 in. For inquiries please click here
Man & Crows in The Olive Grove, 2013 Inkjet print on archival paper 39.4X59 in For inquiries please click here
Woman & Crane, 2014 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X43.25 in. For inquiries please click here
Bird watching, 2017 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in. For inquiries please click here
Jungle, 2017 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in. For inquiries please click here
Itamar Freed Born in Manhattan, NY, 1987. Lives & works in Israel / London
Education 2016 – ongoing
Selected Group Exhibitions M.F.A - Royal College of Arts, Photography Program, London, United Kingdom. (20162018)
2007-2012 B.F.A - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Department of Photography, Jerusalem
Prizes & Awards 2016
2012
Winner of the 2016 Clore - Bezalel Scholarship & a full Grant for a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Arts, London “EPSON” first prize award winner for Excellence in the Art of Photography, Israe
Solo Exhibitions
2017
BFAMI 70th Gala, Christie’s Auction House, London, UK, Jan. 2017
2017
Private Moment in Public, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, Feb 2017 (upcoming)
2016
NordArt 2016, International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany
2016
Musrara Mix, Musrara gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2016
ArTi Art Fair at Tiroche”, Herzelia, Israel
2016
Bread & Roses, Castiel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015
NordArt 2015, International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany
2015
Journey between the Stars, Musrara gallery, Jerusalem
2015
No Time, Ramat-Gan Museum for Israeli Art, Israel
2014
The International Photography Festival, Israel
2015
Birds of Paradise, Gitler &____ Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Bread & Roses, Castiel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014
Birds of Paradise, Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013
Surface Currents, FEINBERG PROJECTS Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013
Memory, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013
Promising artist of 2013 (Exhibition) Calcalist , Tel Aviv
2013
Inventory, Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012
OBJECTS, Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv
Collections
2012
UNDER, Bezalel Gallery, Jerusalem
Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Collection, Clore Collection and additional private collection in Israel and abroad.
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