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Michael Liani
Born1987
Migdal HaEmek, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
EducationBezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Open University of Israel, Minshar
Known forPhotography, video art

Michael Liani (Hebrew: מיכאל ליאני; born 1987) is an Israeli artist, photographer, video artist and editor, and art lecturer who lives and works in Tel Aviv. He has won several awards, including two from Israel's Ministry of Culture and Sports, Docaviv festival and the International Photography Contest at Paris College of Art. His creations have been displayed in dozens of museums and galleries.[1]

Early life and education

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Michael Liani was born in Migdal Ha’emek, Israel to a family that immigrated from Morocco.[2]

He studied art and photography at Minshar school of arts in Tel-Aviv and graduated (with honors) in 2014. He completed his B.A. in 2015, majoring in humanities and social sciences and continued his studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where he received his MFA degree in 2016, with high honors. In 2022 he completed studying phototherapy at The Open University, Tel Aviv.[3]

Artistic career

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His work explores the tension between center and periphery, tradition and modernity, and aspects of gender and aesthetics in human communication.[1][4][5]

His work was featured on several solo exhibitions, including "HA'CK" at Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv; BUSTAN AL HUB (with Yuval Atzili) at IDRIS gallery, Tel Aviv; "Fantasia" at Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv; S' emek at Afula’s municipal art gallery and " All Inclusive" at Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.[6][2][7][8][9]

Liani also participated in Moscow International Biennale for Young Art and in Eye Spy: The New Wight Biennial at the department of art in UCLA. His works were also presented in more than 20 group exhibitions, including zwischen körpern, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin in 2021; Art Rooms Roma, video room, Rome in 2018; "HSHUMA", Artist House, Tel Aviv in 2018; "ZOOM" Young Israeli Artists, The Israel Museum – Ticho House, Jerusalem in 2016 and "reGeneration3" itinerant exhibition , Musée de l'Elysée, Geneva in 2015.[10][11][12]

Along his artistic career, Liani is also a video art teacher at Thelma Yellin High School and a lecturer in photography at Minshar school of Arts.[3]

Honors and awards

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In 2021 Liani received the Minister of Culture and Sports awards for the preservation and cultivation of Israeli cultures in the name of Yitzhak Navon and the Ostrovsky family fund award at video art and experimental film competition in Jerusalem Film Festival.[13][14]

Liani was also the recipient of the NEXT! Prize for Innovative Creation of the Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival in 2019; the Prize for Emerging Artist granted by the Ministry of Culture, Israel in 2018; Winner of International Photography Contest, Paris College of Art and the Li Zhou Photography Festival Prize at Li Zhou Museum for Photography, China, in 2017.[15][16]

Personal life

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Liani moved to Tel Aviv at the age of 18, and has lived there since.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Steinberg, Jessica. "Photographer highlights queer love and families on Pride month". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  2. ^ a b c ""כל פיסת גוף שאני חושף בתמונות מנומקת"". mako. 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  3. ^ a b "Michael Liani". AICF. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  4. ^ Castro, Isaac de. "A Labor of LGBTQ Love". www.jewcymag.com. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  5. ^ "Michael Liani". Saatchi Art. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  6. ^ "Bustan Al-Hubb". Secret Tel Aviv. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  7. ^ "רוצים לברוח ואין לאן: יצירותיו של מיכאל ליאני תואמות את רוח התקופה". הארץ (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  8. ^ "לצאת לחופשה בלי דעות קדומות". הארץ (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  9. ^ "Michael Liani". www.herzliyamuseum.co.il. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  10. ^ "UCLA Department of Art | Exhibitions". 2017-04-29. Archived from the original on 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  11. ^ KHG (2021-03-13). "zwischen körpern_Videoarbeiten". Kleine Humboldt Galerie (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  12. ^ "reGeneration4 – Photo Elysée". elysee.ch (in French). Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  13. ^ Grater, Tom (2021-09-02). "Jerusalem Film Festival Crowns Winners: 'Compartment No. 6' Takes Best International Film". Deadline. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  14. ^ "הוכרזו הזוכים בפרסי שר התרבות והספורט לשימור ולטיפוח תרבויות ישראל ע"ש יצחק נבון". GOV.IL (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  15. ^ "משרד התרבות והספורט הכריז על הזוכים בפרסי האמנות הפלסטית". ערב רב Erev Rav (in Hebrew). 2 January 2019. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  16. ^ ברנע, רעות (2021-02-28). ""בעבודות שלי אני מושך לאנשים בחולצה, שיתקרבו"". כלכליסט – www.calcalist.co.il. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
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