2000-2002

Michal Bachi is a painter working mainly on paper. Lives & works in Tel Aviv. Lectures at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Multidisciplinary Art Department and in ‘Garage’  Pre-Academic Arts School

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Education

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 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

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2023   Jagged, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Tali Ben-Nun                                                         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 Group Exhibitions

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Traces VIII, Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem. Curator: Arik Kilemnik. Chief Curator: Irith Hadar

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 TRIUMPH OF SLOGGI, exhibition cooperation with Matti Harel and Gilad Ophir. Curators: XOSHEN

          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

             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

2001The 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

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           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

 

Awards received

 

2023 The Jacob Pins Award for an Israeli printmaking artist, The Israel Museum

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 Special Projects and publications

 

2021  What’s Happening, Interview. Portfolio magazine, 21.2.20

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 and 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. Courtesy 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 Teaching Experience

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2022-present  Garage Pre-Academic Arts School for young people coping with mental health issues, Jaffa-Tel Aviv: drawing course                      

2008-present  Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan, the Multidisciplinary Art Department: drawing courses

 

2009-2012  Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan, external studies: painting course                                                       

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

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