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1964                 Born in Israel, working in Cote D'Ivoire France and Israel.

EDUCATION:

2004 – 2006   Rakefet Levi School of Theatre Costume Design Tel Aviv, Israel

1987 1988        Esmod studies of Fashion Design Paris, France

1984 - 1987      BA in French and English Literature, Haifa University,  Israel                                            

 

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS: 

2025     CICA Museum, "Portraits", Video Installation, South Korea

2025     Group exhibition, Art Number 23 Gallery, Tokyo

2024     "39 Black International Cinema Festival ", Berlin

2024     Group exhibition, Art Number 23 Gallery, Prague    

2024     "The People of the Land", Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2024     Photography Zine to be announced

EXHIBITIONS:

SOLO:

2024     Solo exhibition "Les gens du Pays", Doulaincourt, France

2021     "Les Gens du Pays", Solo Exhibition, MuCAT Museum, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

2019      "Paradise Lost" Permanent solo exhibition in studio, Ein-Hod

2018      "Land of Memory", Solo exhibition,A Smith Gallery,Johnson City, Texas,USA

2018     "Land of Memory", Solo exhibition Zaritsky Artists House, Tel-Aviv

2017       "The Clown", Solo exhibition Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2017       "The Acrobat" Solo Exhibition, House Gallery, Israel 

2016      "Mirabella's Song" Solo Exhibition, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2015       “Bird of Paradise” Solo Exhibition, Chagall House,Haifa Israel

2015        “Mirabella” Solo Exhibition, Memoire de L'Avenir Gallery, Paris, France

2014       “CLONE” Solo Exhibition, Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

GROUP:

2024     Group exhibition, Art Number 23 Gallery, Athens

2024     Group exhibition, Art Number 23 Gallery, Tokyo

2024      Family chains, Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2023     Indie Film Festival, Florence

2023     Shorts Film Festival, semi finalist, Tokyo 

2023     International Short Festival video installation, Paris

2023     CICA Museum, "Colors", Video Installation, South Korea

2023    "Passing Place", group exhibition Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel 

2022     "ESCAPE" film, Award Winner projection, Cine Paris Film Festival

2021       Rencontres Internationales des Arts, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

2021      "En Avant Les Femmes", Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

2021      "A Home in Ein Hod", group exhibition Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel 

2021      "Diptych", group exhibition, A Smith Gallery,  Johnson City, Texas

2021      SHOA Memorial day, Conseil des Droits de L'Homme, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

2020      CICA Museum, Art as a Message, Video Installation, Korea

2020      "Contemporary Venice" at Palazzo Ca'Zanardi, Venice

2020      Lift-off Film Festival, New-York.

2020     "Art as Message," the international exhibition at the CICA Museum, Korea

2020      Group exhibition ,Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2020       CICA Museum, Video Installation, Korea

2020      "Alchemy", The Line Contemporary Art Space, London

2019      "Working Space" group exhibition ,Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2019      "Anima Mundi Vision" at Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice (58th Venice Biennale)

                 THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, Venice

2019      "Minimalism" group exhibition Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2019      "Black International Cinema Festival ", Berlin

2019      "Restart" group exhibition Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2019      "La Femme Future", group Exhibition ,Memoire de L'Avenir Gallery, Paris

2019       "A Work of Art", group exhibition, Art Number 23 Gallery,  London

2018      "Light'', group exhibition, A Smith Gallery,  Johnson City, Texas

2018     "Manger", group Exhibition , Memoire de L'Avenir Gallery, Paris, France

2018     "Poetics of Light", group exhibition, Black Box Gallery, U.S.A

2018     "'Present Perfect Continuous", Video "Sfezmatozoide",group exhibition, Art

                 Number 23 Gallery, London

2018     "Portray", group exhibition, Art Number 23 Gallery,  London

2018      "Money Talks" group exhibition Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2018      "70 anniversary to Zion", group exhibition, Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2018      "Underwater" group exhibition, Millepiani, Rome

2018      "Wunderlust",group exhibition, Galerie Sehnsucht, Rotterdam, NL

2018      "Our Earth", group exhibition, Kunsthuis Gallery , Yorkshire, Uk.

2018       'Monochrome', group exhibition, Art Number 23 Gallery,, London

2018      "The Mask", group exhibition, Millepiani, Rome

2018       "Time Machine, group exhibition, Galerie Sehnsucht, Rotterdam, NL

2018       "Being set Free'', group exhibition, A Smith Gallery,  Johnson City, Texas

2018       “Chair” A Smith Gallery, group exhibition, Johnson City, Texas, U.S.A

2018       "Politically Correct" group exhibition Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2018       “Response”, group exhibition, A Smith Gallery,  Johnson City, Texas, U.S.A

2017       "Home-Land", group exhibition, Galerie Sehnsucht, Rotterdam Netherlands,

                 guest curator Otto Snoek.

2017       "Leftovers"group exhibition, Soft Within at Prenzlauer Studio

               Kunst-Kollektiv,   Berlin

2017       "Voyage"Sehnsucht Galerie, group exhibition, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2017       “Vistas”group exhibition, A Smith Gallery,  Johnson City, Texas, U.S.A

2017        "Alternative Facts" group exhibition Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2017        VIDEO-  "THE MEMORY OF TREES"  AT THE WORLD HUMANITIES 

                CONFERENCE IN LIEGE, BELGIUM,FROM THE 6TH   TO THE 12TH

                OF AUGUST    http://www.humanities2017.org/en

2017       "Not Black or White" group exhibition Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2017        "Change" HELLERAU –Finalist at European Center for the Arts Dresden,

                 Germany

2017       "Place" group exhibition Montefiore auction house and gallery, Tel-Aviv

2017       "Women...Right?"group Exhibition,Memoire de L'Avenir Gallery, Paris.  

2017       "From the Acrobat & Clone" Panda Gallery, Tel Aviv Israel

2016       "Reality" group Exhibition, Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

2016       "North Star" group Exhibition, Shaar 3 Gallery, Israel

2016       "North Star & Guests" group Exhibition, kfar Sabba Gallery, Israel

2016      "Polistopia" group Exhibition , Memoire de L'Avenir Gallery, Paris, France

2016       "Half Done" group Exhibition, Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel 

2016       "Haifa Tales" Video group Exhibition, House Gallery, Israel

2014       "Choices" Group Exhibition, Ein-Hod Gallery, Israel

 

MUSEUMS

 

2021        MuCAT Museum, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire "Les Gens du Pays", Solo Exhibition

2020       CICA Museum, Korea Video Installation

2018      “Yad Vashem”, Jerusalem, visual center archive, “A Journey to The Land of  

                 Memory”, video work.    

2017       The New Museum of Networked Art, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

              Shoah Film Collection   http://sfc.engad.org/video/deborah-sfez/

 

AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS:

2024     "in quest of Happiness" 

               "The Story of one's Life"

​2024     WINNER:  

               "My Mother, me, and the sea", Monthly Future of Films Awards.

                April 2024 (original screenplay)

2023     "My Mother and I" collage Portfolio finalist,  Circle Art Review Magazine

2023      "My Mother and I" collage, Bronze Winner in Fine Art / Collage for the
                Analog Sparks 2023 
 

2024      " ESCAPE" - WINNER:  

                London Independent Film Awards. March 2024 (best short experimental)

2023     " ESCAPE" - WINNER:

                 First Monthly Film Festival.  August 2023 (best experimental) (indie short films)

                Hamburg Indie Film Festival.  September 2023 (best female feature filmmaker)

                Monthly Future of Films Award.  September 2023 (best experimental)

                Austin International Art Festival.  November 2023 (best short cinematographer)

2022      " ESCAPE" - WINNER:

                Cine Paris Film Festival.  July 2022.  (all categories)

2022      Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine (August 22)"The Washing Men"

2020      "Writing in a Woman's Voice" poem Homeland

2020      "Testimony" a video poem on Artvilla, https://www.artvilla.com/plt

2019       "Anti-document" publication On A5 MAGAZINE UK (September)

2017        Finalist at Portrait exhibition for HELLERAU PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

                 Dresden Germany

2014       PWP - Professional Women Photographer Jurors selection for best                    

              portraiture, NY, U.S.A

2014       Short Listed in ASFF Aesthetic Short film Festival in York for Video

                “ SFEZMATOZOID” England

2013        Short Listed in Beers Contemporary Award for Emerging Art, London.

 

LANGUAGES

 

Hebrew, French, English, (speaking and writing).

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