Dorit Saphir
Dorit Saphir
Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel
1970 Studied theater at Tel Aviv University.
1971-1973 Studied architecture and art at Politecnico Di Milano, Italy.
1975-1980 Studied Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Studied with Itzhak Danziger, Yoav Barel and Drora Spitz, among others.
1982-1986 BA in Cinema and Television, Production Track, at Tel Aviv University.
Advanced study at the Tel Aviv Artists’ House with Prof. John Byle and Harold Rubin.
solo exhibitions
1972 "Korim", Institute of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy.
1972 "Heroes and Mythology", L'amici di Angelo Gallery, Milan, Italy.
2009 "Mythical Figures and Animals",Tzavta Theater Gallery, Tel Aviv. Art Consultant: Irit Levin.
2009 "Mythical Figures and Animals", Art Gallery, Kibbutz Gan Shmuel Gallery. Curator: Dorit Talmon.
2010 Ancient Anecdotes, Ephrat Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Nurit Tal-Tenne.
Selected group exhibitions
1972 Variations on the theme "House on the Waterfall" – Homage to Frank Lloyd Wright, Faculty of Architecture Gallery, Milan, Italy.
1972 "Spiderwebs", in the group exhibition "Webs", Florence, Italy.
2003-2008 Exhibitions at the Artists' House, Tel Aviv.
2009 "Taurus", Art Gallery, Kibbutz Gan Shmuel Gallery. Curator: Dorit Talmon.
2009 8th Annual Summer Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE. Exh. Juror: Prof. Larry Bradshaw. Special Recognition.
2009 Painting on photography/Photography on painting, Givatayim Theater. Curators: Doron Polak and Iris Elhanani.
2009 "Femmes et Memoires", Memoire de l'Avenir Gallery, Paris
2009 "Inside Israel", Center of Urban Planning Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2009 "Prospectus", Projekt 30, New-York
2009 PAINT!- Climate Gallery, Long Island City, New York.
2010 Inside Israel, Central Synagogue, Harbin, China.
2010 "Time Point Set", Chelsea Gallery, London. Curator: Emili Galbman.
2010 "Darkness", Fusion Museum, New York. Curator: Doron Polak.
2010 "Beyond Material Aspects", Bar Ilan University.
2010 "Bread and Roses", Minshar School for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2011 "Imagination", Bank Hapoalim, Tel-Aviv.
2012 "Power of Redution", Kibbutz Gan Shmuel Gallery. Curator: Dorit Talmon.
2013 "Imagination", Bank Hapoalim, Tel-Aviv.
2013 "Encounters between emotion and color: a tribute to the artist Sultana Sorgon", Discount Bank, Bat Yam.
2013 "Black/White and Everything in Between", Kibbutz Gan Shmuel Gallery. Curator: Dorit Talmon.
2013 Bat Yam Artists Exhibition, Art institute, Bat Yam. Curators: Sarah Ginzburg and Tzipi Freindreich.
2016 "Tower of Babel", traveling exhibition, New York, Rome, Givatayim (The Joseph Wiessman Municipal Gallery). Curator: Doron Polak.
2019 "Homemade", Ben Ami Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: John Herson.
2020 "On Some Birds", Givatayim (The Joseph Wiessman Municipal Gallery). Curator: Irit Levin.
2020 "It's Funny to me", Ben Ami Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: John Herson.
2023 "Bread and Roses", Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Wrote, produced and directed many documentary films for television.
Links
"Cartoons - and vice versa" . What is the difference between cinema and painting - two visual mediums, which are so different in their production and creation process. Y-NET, 2.6.2010 | https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3897225,00.html
"Ancient Anecdotes" 2010. Text - Nurit Tal-Tenne, Curator | https://www.nurit-tal-tenne.com/copy-of-futurism-3
"Creative cuts", catalog, design by Yael Reshef | http://www.yaelreshef.co.il/images/Other/BooksDesign/dorit-katalog-forweb.pdf
Dorit Dorit Sapir - Israel Film Archive - Jerusalem Cinematheque | https://did.li/tjETY|