EDUCATION
1994-97
Hamidrasha, B.E.D art teachers school, Kalmania, Israel

 

2001-03
Columbia University, MFA, New York

 

PRIZES
2008
Sandberg Prize, Israel Museum

 

2007
DAAD, Berlin (for 2006)- Residency
KunstFilm Biennale, Koeln 2007

 

2005
Principal prize, the 51st International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen

 

2003
the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Art Grant, New York

 

2002
The Caroline Newhouse Sculpture Fellowship, New York

 

2001
The Givon- Tel Aviv Museum prize, Israel

 

1994
The Kiepfer-Wolf prize for a young artist, Israel

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2019
Sadie Coles HQ, London

 

2017
Escape Artists, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy

 

2016
Escape Artists, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2014
Manifesta 10, the state Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Family matters, CCCS, Florence
Room Service, saatliche kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Arena, CCA, Znaki Czasu, Torun

 

2013
Image Employment, MoMA PS1, New York
Besser Scheiten, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Homebodies, Museum of contemporary art Chicago
Le Pont, MAC Musees d’art Contemporain, Marseolle
Porosites, Centre d’Art le LAIT, Albi
The Readymade Centennial, Haifa museum of art
WYSIWYG: What you see is what you get, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Kids are all right, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
The Ghost of Architecture: Recent and promised Gifts, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Aquatopia, Notingham Contemporary, Uk

 

2012
Künstlerkinder von Runge bis Richter, von Dix bis Picasso – Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden
Phänomen Wohlstand – Motorenhalle – riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden
Project 35 – Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt – Centre d’Art, Biel/Bienne
The Weight of Lives I’m Not Living – Artspeak, Vancouver, BC
beyond time- international video art today, kulturhuset, Stockholm
Da zero a cento, le nuove età della vita – Triennale Bovisa, Milan
Here In Your Space, grand central art center, Santa Ana
Family talk, Futura, Prague
Idea is the object, D’amelio gallery, NY
stage Presence- theatricality in art & Media, SFMoMA, SF

 

2011
Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters, curated by Doron Rabina, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pensylavania
Life : A User’s Manual, curated by aya Miron, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Possession, curated by Gentili Apri, TAF, The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
Museum Night, Musée cantonal des Beaux – Arts, Louisanne, Switzerland
Project 35, Pratt Manhattan gallery, New York
Family Matters, Cade Fine Art Center Gallery, party of Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland
Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming: Columbia university MFA Alumni , NY
Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Bureau For Open Culture, North Adams, MA

 

2010
Bilder in Bewegung, Museum Ludwig, Koeln, Germany
Kunstfilmbiennale Koeln, KW, Berlin
Adaptation, Philbrook museum, Tulsa, Ok
Project 35 international video, NOMA, New Orleans
videozone, CCA, Tel Aviv
1st Ural Industrial biennial, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Res Publica, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Real Life, Oakville, ON, Canada
Morality act 3, Witte de Witte, Rotterdam
Remote vision, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
Fair Use, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

2008
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool
Shanghai Biennial, China
Joy of everyday life, Tower Mito, Japan
Laughing in a foreign language, The Hayward gallery, London
all inclusive, Frankfurter Schirn, Germany
Adaptation, The Smart Museum, Chicago
The puppet show, ICA, Philadelphia
worlds on video, CCCS, Florence, Italy
Drei Farben-rot, Rohkunstbau, Berlin
Scenes de sud, Musee d’art Contemporain, Nimes, France
L’impresa dell’arte, Pan, Naples, Italy

 

2007
Skulptur Projekte Munster 07, Munster, Germany
History will repeat itselF, HMKV, Dortmund and KW, Berlin
Bird watching, Foreman art gallery, bishops university, Quebec

 

2006
Video Venice, Adelaide art festival, Australia
Homesick, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
Holyland: Diaspora and the Desert, Heared Museum, Phoenix.
Dream and Trauma, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
radical closeure – 52nd international short film festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Guy Ben-Ner, Misaki Kawai, Take floor, Tokyo

 

2005
Greater NY, P.S.1, NY
who is the protagonist, Guild & Greyshkul, NY
Brooklyn, Futura, Prague

 

2004
Moby Dick At MoMA QNS Lobby Projections, NY
video X, momenta, Brooklyn, New York
video lounge – Vox Populi, Philadelphia
Becoming father- becoming infant, The Bronx museum, NY
storytelling, George Eastman house, Rochester.
Realismusstudio- tainment, NGBK, Berlin
Art Focus, Jerusalem
wild boy, premiers, MoMA
Video Zone 2, Israel

2003
Brewster 2003, Site-specific art event, Brewster, Yor

 

2002
Enough about me, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York

 

2001
Video one, Hifa museum, Hifa, Israel
New Israel video art, Tel Aviv cinema-tech, Israel
Hifa cinema-tech, Israel
Men at home, Kalisher gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
The 33rd year- Artists against the occupation, Beit h’aam, Tel Aviv & Um el Phahem
House hold, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

 

2000
Video marathon, Art In General, New York
Israeli video art, the Tel Aviv cinema-tech, Israel
ZimZum, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany

 

1999
Israeli Video art, the Tel Aviv cinema-tech, Tel Aviv, Israel
Berkeley’s island, Hagada hasmalit, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

1998
L’art dans le mond, passage de Retz, Paris, France
Double ravage, Centre Re’gional d’art contemporian, Se’te, France
Good kids-bad kids, the Israel museum, Jerusalem, Israel

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Solo exhibition, Sadie Coles HQ, London

 

2017
Escape Artists, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy

 

2016
Escape Artists, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2014
Soundtrack, Postmasters, NY
Guy Ben Ner/ at home, Anderson gallery, Richmond, USA

 

2013
Soundtrack, pinksummer Gallery, Genoa
Sommer gallery’ Tel Aviv
aspect Ration Gallery, Chicago

 

2012
Guy Ben-Ner – Konrad Fischer Galerie – Berlin, Berlin
Guy Ben-Ner- Stealing beauty- Media/Retail space- MOCCA, Canada
Guy Ben Ner, The IBB Videolounge, Berlinishe Gallery, Berlin

 

2011
Name Dropping, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK
Spies, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK

 

2010
Flying lessons, Konrad Fischer gallery, Duesseldorf
Second Nature, Postmasters gallery, NY

 

2009
Thursday the 12th, MasMOCA, USA
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico city
Second nature, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Berlin
Second nature, pinksummer Gallery , Genoa, Italy

 

2008
Real Life, Ron Mueck/Guy Ben Ner, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Stealing Beauty, NYA Kalmar Kunstmuseum, Sweden
Stealing Beauty, Postmasters gallery, NY
Wild Boy, Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium
Instructions included, Zacheta- National Gallery of Art in Warsaw

 

2007
Musee D’art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Stealing beauty, Gimple Fils gallery, London
Stealing Beauty, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
Kunsthalle Wien, ursula blickle videolounge, Wien, Austria

 

2006
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Treehouse kit, Postmasters gallery, NY
Wild Boy, Konrad Fischer gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Guy Ben-Ner: Selected works 1999-2004, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne,Australia
Self portrait as a family man, CAC, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2005
The Israeli Pavilion, The Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Wild boy, Postmasters, NY
Honey, I shrunk the kids”, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

2003
Elia- a story of an Ostrich chick, the Hertzeliya Museum, Israel
Moby Dick, Postmasters gallery, New York

 

2001
The trilogy, A screening at the Hertzeliya Museum of Art

 

1998
20% more for free, Julie M gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

1995
Wet me, The Hertzeliya Museum, Hertzeliya, Israel
Selected Screenings

 

2008
Cinema Arsenal, Berlin
impact event, Impact, Utrecht , Holland

 

2007
Portrait, 53rd international short film festival, Oberhausen, Germany
KunstFilm Biennale, Koeln

 

2005
Wild Boy, International short film festival Detmonld, Germany
Wild Boy, the 51st International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany