Michael Liani
Michael Liani (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.
Michael Liani
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- Name
- Michael Liani
- Born
- 1987
- Birthplace
- Migdal HaEmek, Israel
- Education
- Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Open University of Israel, Minshar
- Known for
- Photography, video art
- Nationality
- Israel
- Occupation
- photographer · artist
- Fields
- photography
- Languages
- Hebrew
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Michael Liani (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.
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Michael Liani (born 1987) is an artist and photographer, of Israeli nationality. The artist was born in Migdal HaEmek.
Michael Liani was educated at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Minshar School of Art and Open University of Israel. Activity centred on photography. Languages used include Hebrew.
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• Name — Michael Liani • Native Name — מיכאל ליאני • Born — 1987 • Birthplace — Migdal HaEmek, Israel • Education — Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Open University of Israel, Minshar • Known for — Photography, video art
Early life and education
Early life and education
Michael Liani was born in Migdal Ha’emek, Israel to a family that immigrated from Morocco. 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.
Artistic career
Artistic career
His work explores the tension between center and periphery, tradition and modernity, and aspects of gender and aesthetics in human communication. 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. 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. 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.
Personal life
Personal life
Liani moved to Tel Aviv at the age of 18, and has lived there since.
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Life and career
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1987
Michael Liani born at Migdal HaEmek.
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Michael Liani is recorded as having studied at Minshar School of Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Open University of Israel.
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Honors and awards
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. 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.
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- 1.Steinberg, Jessica. Photographer highlights queer love and families on Pride month. The Times of Israel. 0040-7909.
- 2."כל פיסת גוף שאני חושף בתמונות מנומקת". mako. 2019-11-22.
- 3.Michael Liani. AICF.
- 4.Castro, Isaac de. A Labor of LGBTQ Love. www.jewcymag.com.
- 5.Michael Liani. Saatchi Art.
- 6.Bustan Al-Hubb. Secret Tel Aviv.
- 7.רוצים לברוח ואין לאן: יצירותיו של מיכאל ליאני תואמות את רוח התקופה. הארץ.
- 8.לצאת לחופשה בלי דעות קדומות. הארץ.
- 9.Michael Liani. www.herzliyamuseum.co.il.
- 10.UCLA Department of Art Exhibitions. 2017-04-29.
- 11.KHG. zwischen körpern_Videoarbeiten. Kleine Humboldt Galerie. 2021-03-13.
- 12.reGeneration4 – Photo Elysée. elysee.ch.
- 13.Grater, Tom. Jerusalem Film Festival Crowns Winners: 'Compartment No. 6' Takes Best International Film. Deadline. 2021-09-02.
- 14.הוכרזו הזוכים בפרסי שר התרבות והספורט לשימור ולטיפוח תרבויות ישראל ע"ש יצחק נבון. GOV.IL.
- 15.משרד התרבות והספורט הכריז על הזוכים בפרסי האמנות הפלסטית. ערב רב Erev Rav. 2 January 2019.
- 16.ברנע, רעות. "בעבודות שלי אני מושך לאנשים בחולצה, שיתקרבו". כלכליסט – www.calcalist.co.il. 2021-02-28.
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