
2000-2002
MICHAL BACHI מיכל בקי
Michal Bachi - Biography
Michal Bachi is a painter working mainly on paper. Lives & works in Tel Aviv and lectures at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Multidisciplinary Art Department.
Education
2013 -2017 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv: Faculty of the Arts, M.A studies at the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts (M.A)
1988-1989 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Italian Literature & Philosophy
1984-1988 Bezalel, Academy of Art &Design, Fine Arts Department, Jerusalem (B.F.A)
1983-1984 Brera, Accademia di Belle arti, Milano, Italia: Fine arts studies
Solo & two-person exhibitions
2020 Pickpocket, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Yair Shulevitz
2016 The Chemists, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Yair Shulevitz
2014 The Incubator and the Fan, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Yair Shulevitz
2011 Fiery Gray, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Yair Shulevitz
2009 Under the Lamplight and Pits Series, The Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv. Curator Vered
Zafran Gani
2008 Tigers in Bed, Artists House, Tel Aviv. Curator Irena Gordon
Intuitive Precision (with Anat Michaelis Levy), Seemann Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator
Hagai Segev
2007 Altered States (with Cynthia Greig), Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson NY, USA. Curator Nicole Fiacco
2006 Paintings 2002-2006, Nachshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon. Curator Yael Keini
2005 Watercolors 2004-2005, Arad Museum, Arad. Curator Tamara Rikman
2004 Works on paper, The Cliff Gallery, Netanya. Curator Monica Lavi
2002 Wonderful Days in the Circus Divine, Office in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv. Curator Rachel
Sukman
Paintings, Beit Michal, Rehovot. Curator Chava Katz
2001 Recent Paintings, The Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv. Curator Nurit David
1997 Tamara Rikman Hosts Michal Bachi, The Pollack Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Idit Porat
1995 Paintings, The Gallery in Be’eri. Curator Ziva Yalin
Paintings, Ha’Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Tali Tamir
1992 Michal Bachi - Painting, Daphna Ron – Sculpture, Kalisher 5 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator
Itamar Levy
1990 Works, The Art Workshop, Yavne. Curator Monica Lavi
Selected Special Projects and publications
2021 What’s Happening, Interview. Portfolio magazine, 21.2.20
2019 TRIUMPH OF SLOGGI, exhibition cooperation with Matti Harel and Gilad Ophir.
Curators: XOSHEN
2017 participating in Harama online art magazine # 18: No Photography. Editors Rinat Edelstein
and Tal Yachas
2016 COME video, cooperation with Roy Efrat. Music: Amotz Plessner
participating in Harama online art magazine # 13: Danger. Editors Rinat Edelstein
Yael Rochman
2015 100 Years of Printmaking in Israel, Editor: Gideon Ofrat. Co-editors: Arik Kilemnik, Irena
gordon, Tamar Gispan-Greenberg. Jerusalem Print Workshop (pp. 364-5, 409)
2014 Art Encounters, reproductions of works by Shenkar College of Engineering & Design
lecturers, bus stations, Tel-Aviv and Ramat-Gan area. by Shenkar and Bank Ha’Poalim
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Print Workshop and the Gottesman Etching Center,
Kibbutz Cabri. Eds.: Ruthi Ofek, Irena Gordon. The Open Museum, Tefen, Jerusalem
Print Workshop, Gottesman Etching Center, Cabri ) (pp. 25, 70-1, 168)
2010 Guest artist at the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Creation of a silk screen installation on wall
2009 Guest artist at the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Creation of Phosphorescent Beetroot, an artist book in silk screen prints with 2 texts by Hanoch Levin
Under the Lamplight and Pits Series, exhibition catalog, text by curator Vered Zafran Gani
2008 Tigers in Bed, exhibition catalog, text by curator Irena Gordon Nov.2007 Picnic Magazine,
second issue (382-383)
2007 Traces III, the 3rd Biennale for Drawing in Israel, exhibition catalog, Text by Irena Gordon
2006 Bezalel 100, 3rd vol., David Tartakover and Gideon Ofrat eds., Pais Council for the Arts
(pp. 212, 230, 393)
Summer 2002 Terminal Art Magazine, Artist’s Pages
2001-2002 Guest artist at the Jerusalem Print Workshop, creation of a series of etchings
2001 Artists' Studios exhibition catalog, with text Michal, Come, by curator Nurit David
1990 Studio Art Magazine, 10th issue,
Selected Artists from the exhibition "Towards the 90's” create silkscreen prints, the print workshop, Givat Haviva
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Blade Memory, CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Curators: Naama Arad,
Eran Nave and Ishai Shapira Kalter
2020 Fluidity Mechanics, Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. Curator: Monica Lavi
As She Transforms, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem. Curator: Irena Gordon
2019 Mayhem, Kupferman Collection House, Lohamei Hageta’ot. Curator: Iddo Markus
To Hear Again, Almacen Gallery, Jaffa. Curators Yair Shulevitz and Assaf Rahat 2018 From the Artist’s Diary, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa, Curator Svetlana Reingold
2017 Eyes, Don’t Haunt Me, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators Yair Shulevitz and Assaf Rahat
Artport’s Art Book Fair, unique artist books room, Tel Aviv. Curators Vardit Gross and
Carmit Galil
2016 Hotel Europa video exhibition, Concordia, Enschede, Holland. Curator Petra Boonstra
Traces VI, The Return of Paper (COME video, cooperation with Roy Efrat), Barbur
Gallery, Jerusalem. Curators Masha Zusman, Sally Haftel Naveh. Chief Curators Edna
Moshenson and Sally Haftel Naveh
Oscillation, in Post- postmodernism ≠ Utopia, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa. Curator
Revital Silverman Grun
2015 Michal Bachi / Shuli Bar-Navon / Osias Hofsttater, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Yair
Shulevitz
Fluid Colors: Contemporary Israeli Watercolor. City Gallery Kfar Saba. Curator: Meira
Perry- Lehmann
2014 Rise Against, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Curator Irena Gordon
Headrest, P8 Gallery, curator Ruth Biger
Mechilot Laila, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Yair Shulevitz
2013 Print Time, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park. Curators Ruthi Ofek, Irena Gordon
2012 Show Apartment, Pop-Up exhibition in a Florentine flat, Tel Aviv. Curators Tal Bar- On
and Meir Sidi
Talui, Art in Suspense in Zichron Yaakov, Curator Revital Silverman Grun
2011 New on Paper, Recent Acquisitions in the Prints and Drawings Collection, The Israel
Museum, Jerusalem, curators Ronit Sorek, Nirit Sharon, Chava Schneiderman
The Minister of Culture Prize Winners Exhibition, The Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat
Gan, Curator Meir Aharonson
The Exposed Nerve, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Yair Shulevitz
2010 Flooding (in Impressions IV, the 4th Israeli drawing biennial) Jerusalem Print Workshop,
Jerusalem, Curator Irena Gordon
Completely not serene, Ha'agaf gallery, Haifa, Curator Yair Shulevitz
Face to Face, 10 gallery, Beit Michal, Rehovot. Curator Carmit Blumensohn
10 artist books, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Curators Arik Kilemnik and
Irena Gordon
2009 Art in the boulevards, Tel Aviv Centennial Art Month, Curator Adi Yekutieli
Works with Paper, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson NY, USA. Curator Nicole Fiacco
2008 Intimate places, Dwek Gallery, Jerusalem. Curator Irena Gordon
Waking the Tiger, Florentine 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Gilat Nadivi
60.art.israel. world, Contemporary Israeli Art, Magnes museum, Berkeley, CA.
Curator Alla Efimova
In the Spirit of Things, Works on Paper in Black & White, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Curator Yair Shulevitz
2007 Self Portrait: Homage to Ori Reisman, Cabri Gallery, Cabri. Curator Drora Dekel
Traces III, the 3rd Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem Print Workshop,
Jerusalem. Curators Dalia Manor & Irena Gordon
The Desert Generation, Artists House, Jerusalem, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv,
Meneer de Wit, Amsterdam. Curator Larry Abramson
Project # 82, Office in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv. Curator Rachel Sukman
On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem. Curator Arik Kilemnik
2005 League, House at The Port, Tel Aviv. Curator Galia Yahav
2004 Impressions, the 2nd Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Artists House, Jerusalem. Curator
Dror Burstein
The Magic of the Circus, Youth Wing, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv. Curator Sara Reiman
Schor
Exhibition 35: New Prints, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem. Curators Arik Kilemnik
and Irena Gordon
Critically Correct, Givon Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator Naomi Givon
2003 Contemporary Works from Private Israeli Collections, Boca Raton Museum of
Art, Florida, USA
2002 Couples, with Gitai Ashuach. David Yalin College Gallery, Jerusalem. Curator
Tamara Rikman
2001 The Ministry of Sceince, Culture & Sports Award Winners Exhibition, The Israel
Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Yehudith Spitzer
1998 Young Women Showing, David Yalin College Gallery, Jerusalem. Curator Tamara
Rikman
1997 Blurred Borders, Pyramid Contemporary Art Center, Haifa. Curator Ofer Ze'evi
1996 A Matter of Truth and Terror, The Municipal Art Gallery, Rehovot. Curators Ada
Na'amani & Rafi Belbiersky
1993 “A Matchbox Enclosed…”, The Art Workshop, Yavne. Curator Monica Lavi
1991 The Young Artist Award Winners Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum. Curator Aliza
Friedman
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship Winners Exhibition, Haifa
museum
1990 Towards the 90’s, Ein Harod Art Museum. Curator Pinchas Cohen Gan
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship Winners, Tel Aviv Museum.
Curator Surin Heller
1989 Paintings, The Art Department Gallery, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
Awards received
2010 The Minister’s Award, The Ministry of Science, Culture & Sports
2001 Creation Encouragement Award, The Ministry of Science, Culture & Sports
1991 The Young Artist Award, The Public Council of Art & Culture
1990-1991 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation for Young Artists
1989-1990 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation for Young Artist
Selected Teaching Experience
2009-2012 Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan, external studies: painting course
2008-present Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan, the Multidisciplinary Art Department: drawing courses
2007 Ironi Aleph High School of Arts, Tel Aviv: interdisciplinary art course
2005 Ironi Aleph High School of Arts, Tel Aviv: drawing course
2002-2015 Tel Aviv Museum, the Meyerhoff Art Education Center, Tel Aviv: art courses
2001 Ironi Aleph High School of Arts, Tel Aviv: senior final art project guidance Vital center of design studies, Ramat Gan, the preparatory program: drawing course
1993-2008 Omanuyot School of Art, Tel Aviv: art classes
1992-1993 Bezalel, Academy of Art &Design, Jerusalem. External Studies: drawing course
1989-1994 The Art Workshop, Yavneh: art classes
1988-1990 The Israel Museum, The Youth Wing: art activities for children
