FATMA SHANAN

Biography

Born 1986 in the Druze village Julis, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel

Education
2011 Private Studies with artist Eli Shamir, Israel
2010 B.Ed , Oranim College, Israel

Solo Exhibition
2025 - (upcoming) Artport Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2023 - THE INN RIVER, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021 - Leaves of Grass, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020 - Berliner Luft, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Germany
2019 - Yellow Skirt, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 - Fatma Shanan: Works 2010-2017, The 2016 Haim Shiff Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2016 - The Dvir (Inner Sanctum), Fatma Shanan and Michel Platnik, Alfred Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 - A Single Continuum, The Um el-Fahem Art Gallery, Israel
2014 - Carpet-Place, Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 - Crimson, The Contemporary Art Gallery at the Memorial, Tivon, Israel

Selected Group Exhibition
2024 - (upcoming) Group Show, GOWEN, Geneva, Switzerland
2024 - Beacon of Light, BFAMI, Sotheby’s, London
2024 - Spectrum of Light, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv
2023 - Time, kunsthaus Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
2023 - Who by Fire, Haus am Lützowplatz - HAL, Berlin, Germany 2023 Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2023 - Past, Still, Present, Largo Residencias, Lisboa, Portugal
2022 - Paisley, The Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel
2022 - Echo of Memories, Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2022 - Beyond Belief, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2022 - Permanent Collection of Israeli Art, Art Collection hall, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2021 - Year Of The Rat, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020 - Trespassing, The Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel
2019 - 30 artists to the 30 Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Klosterscheune Zehdenick, Germany
2019 - Beyond the Veil, Memoire de l`Avenir - Memory of the Future, Paris, France
2019 - Tar and Milk, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa, Israel
2019 - A Decade of the Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2019 - Jacqueline Kahanoff: The Levant as a Parable, The Eretz Israel Museum, Tel - Aviv, Israel
2019 - Common Place, Silas Von Morisse Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
2019 - Artists Are The New Athletes, The EDIT Gallery, Cyprus
2019 - New in the Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2018 - Khamse Khamsa Khamsa, The Museum for Islamic ART, Jerusalem, Israel
2018 - Only Through Time, Time is Conquered, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 - Nature and Culture, Museum of Hunting and Nature, Paris, France
2018 - 1948, Haifa City Museum, Haifa, Israel
2017 - Round About, the TLVinLDN festival, London, UK
2017 - Nonfinito, Artport gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 - Repositioning: Old Objects, New Artworks, The Islamic Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2017 - From a village you are and to a village you will return, The Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
2016 - Territory-Textile-Text, Mana Contemporary, The MECA Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2016 - Agropolis, curated by Maayan Sheleff, The Science Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2015 - Road Map, The Contemporary Art Gallery at the Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
2015 - 40x30x20, Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 - STUDIOS, Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 - Adam H, Haemek Museum, Kibbutz Yifat, Israel
2015 - Print.Labor, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 - No Man is an Island: Artists from Israel / Switzerland, Ha‘riviera Art Gallery, Bat Yam, Israel
2014 - Residents’ Exhibition, HomeBase Project Art Residency, Jerusalem, Israel
2014 - ALFRED XL, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 - Spring 2014, Mana Contemporary, The MECA Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2013 - Re-Orientation, The Mediterranean Biennale, Sakhnin, Israel
2013 - Camp No. 6, Ramle Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art, Ramle, Israel
2013 - Continuous Space, The Gallery at the Center of Culture and Art, Nazareth, Israel
2012 - Young Masters: Young Israeli Artists, CBK, The Center for Visual Art, Rotterdam, The Nederland
2012 - Hidden Treasure, The Israeli Treasury, Jerusalem, Israel
2012 - Terra Nova, The Municipal Gallery, Bat Yam, Israel
2012 - Spring 2012, Mana Contemporary, The MECA Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2012 - Blooming, Florentin 45 Contemporary Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 - Face to Face, The Mormon University, Jerusalem, Israel
2012 - Nature, Still Life, Gebo Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 - Laboratoire #2, Mémoire de l‘Avenir Gallery, Paris, France
2012 - International Contemporary Art Festival, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
2012 - Art Auction, Bonhams Auction House, London, UK
2011 - Wind Stones, Daniel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Awards and Residencies
2023 NAIRS foundation residency, Scuol, Switzerland
2022 The Peleh Alumni Grant, Berkeley, USA
2021 The Ministry of Culture Award for Plastic Art, Israel
2020 Outset grant for Body Portrait / Group exhibition “Trespassing” 2020 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida, USA
2018 Residency UnLimited, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2017-18 Peleh Fund Residency, Berkeley, California, USA
2017 The Ministry of Culture Award for the Young Artist, Israel
2016-17 Artport Residency, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Haim Schiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2016 Artist project grant, Israel
2016 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts’ Grant, Tel Aviv
2016 The Pais Culture Council’s Grant for the dual exhibition with Michel Platnik, Israel
2014 The Pais Culture Council’s Grant for the publication of a catalogue for the solo exhibition “A Single Continuum”, Israel
2014 Artist in the Community Project, The Ministry of Culture and Sport, Israel
2014 HomeBase Project, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 The Pais Culture Council’s Grant for the solo exhibition “A Single Continuum”, Israel
2011 The Tali Cohen Garbuz and The Contemporary Art Gallery at the Memorial Center, Israel
2011 Tivon Curator‘s Prize for excellency in the Graduate Project at The Art Institute, Oranim Academic College, Israel
2011 Award of Excellence, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Israel
2010 Prize for the Encouragement of Further Artistic Creation, The Art Institute, Oranim Academic College, Israel

Special events
2018 Conference; The Rug as Heterotopic Zone, New York University, NY, United States
2016 Place, Hybridity, Displacement, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

Collections
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Credit Suisse Collection
Dubi Shiff, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ilana Goor Museum, Jaffa, Israel
Rivka Saker and Uzi Zucker, Tel Aviv, Israel
Luna Art Fund, Tel Aviv, Israel and New York, United States
Fern Schad Private Collection, New York City, United States
Dubi Shiff Art Collection, Miami, Florida, United States
Ann & Ari Foundation, Los Angeles, United States
Multiple Private Collections, United States
The Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands