Shai Yehezkelli was born in Israel, and earned his BFA Degree with Highest Honor (”Summa Cum Laude”) from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem (2006), and his MFA from the Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv (2010). 

He was awarded The Rappaport award for a young artist (2015), the “Bank Leumi Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievements” and the "Arieli" prize in 2006 and received a grant from The Israeli lottery Culture-Council in 2014. Yehezkelli has exhibited solo shows and has been in group shows in US, UK, Germany and in Israel

EDUCATION

2008-2010- M.F.A. degree at the Bezalel Academy of art & design, Tel Aviv 

2002-2006- B.F.A. degree with the highest honor (”Summa Cum Laude”) At the Bezalel Academy of art & design, Jerusalem 

Grants, residencies & awards: 

2018 - Artist-in-residence, Achterhaus Ateliergemeinschaft, Hamburg 

2017 - Artist-in-residence at the Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz (The Jewish Museum of Switzerland), June-September 

2016 - Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts grant for publishing the catalog of the Tel-Aviv Museum show "In Praise of Avalanche" 

2015 - Awarded the Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Artist.

2014 - Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts grant for the publishing of the artist-book "Cocks and Tits and Hurt Feelings" 

2011 - Chosen Lecturing Artist for “Sal Tarbut” program. 

2010 - Awarded the Bezalel MFA program award, Bezalel Academy. 

2006 - Awarded the “Leumi” art department prize for excellent Achievements, Bezalel Academy. 

2006 - Awarded the “Arieli” history & theory department prize for excellent achievements, Bezalel Academy. 

2005 - Awarded the art department prize for excellent achievements, Bezalel Academy. 

Solo Exhibitions: 

2019 - “The Great Sieste”, Chelouche gallery, Tel-Aviv 

2019 - “Maarava”, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida 

2018 - "Heel To Toe", Oded Shatil Contemporary Art Space, Tel-Aviv

2018 - ‘Nothing Went Wrong to Write Home About”, 2025 eV, Hamburg 

2016 – 'In Praise of Avalanche', Tel Aviv Museum of Art 

2014 - 'With Philistines", Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2012 - "Forever Sweat-Beads", Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2012 - "Space C", Haifa Museum of Art 

2009 – 'Shouldn't, Couldn't, Wouldn't', Darom Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2007 – 'Fountain'- Solo gallery, Tel Aviv 

Two-Person Shows: 

2019 - “Support Beam Fall” with Eden Bannet, Villa Gallery, Jerusalem 

2014 – "Abigail Hopkins. Shai Yehezkelli”, Ha'Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2013 – "Depression Delights" with Sharon Fadida, The New & Bad gallery, Haifa 

2007 - “Chay Tseeyurim” with Ran Keydar, Barbur gallery, Jerusalem 

Selected group exhibitions: 

2020 - "The Story of Pesach", Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem 

2020 - “Expanded Book”, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg 

2020 - “Big in Minshar”, Minshar Gallery, Tel-Aviv 

2020 - “Black Sun”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv 

2019 - “Hidden Hour”, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida 

2019 - “Maarbolot”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv 

2018 - "Collector's Bedroom", Hansen, Jerusalem 

2018 - “Stav”, Maya Gallery, Tel-Aviv 

2018 - “No Other Place - Decade Exhibition”, The Tel Aviv Convention Center 

2018 - “The Origin of Who U Are Right Now”, Kvadrat16 gallery, Copenhagen 

2018 - “Between Walls”, Binyamin gallery, Tel-Aviv 

2018 - “Weisse Weste”, Il Caminetto, Hamburg 

2017 - "There Will Be Nothing", MFA Gallery of Bezalel Academy, Tel-Aviv 

2017 - “Art after Chagall. The Breakthrough Century”, The Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel 

2017 - “Paper Cuts”, The Manchester Contemporary art fair 

2017 - "We Are The Ones Doing Works On Canvas", Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Denmark

2017 - "Neuland", The Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel 

2017 – "Ingathering: 10th Anniversary of the Rappaport Prize for a Young/Established Israeli Artist", Tel Aviv Museum of Art 

2016 – "Talush", Tel Aviv Museum of Art 

2016 – "Traces III - The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel", Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem 

2016 – "Art Camp 2016: Art Activists", The Negev Museum of Art 

2016 – "Pop Up", Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2016 – "Open Sketchbooks", Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art 

2015 – "Good Taste", Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2015 – "Suspected Urge", Gabirol gallery, Tel Aviv 

2015 – "Mind the Gap", Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv

2014 – "Nehushtan", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2013 – "Goods" ("Tuvin"), MOBY (Museum of Bat-Yam) 

2013 -- "BlackBox" Billboards project, Jerusalem 

2012 - "2112", The Artist House, Tel-Aviv 

2012 - "Painting Camp #5", Ramlāh's Local Gallery, Ramlāh 

2012 - "BAAD Influence", BAAD Gallery, Bezalel, Tel-Aviv 

2012 - "Sigh of relief", Beit Uri Nehoshtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov 

2011 - "Ch'atima Tova", Inga gallery, Tel Aviv 

2011 - “Gush”, Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2011 - “Formally Speaking: And what shall we do with painting in the 21st century?”, Haifa Museum of Art 

2011 - "Execution", Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2011 - "Sweatshops", Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2011 - “Contemporary", Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2011 - "Fresh Paint #4" Art Fair, The Botanical Gardens, Tel-Aviv 

2010 - “Salame 10”, Graduate exhibition, Master in Fine Art, The Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2010 - “Fountain of youth”, Temporary States gallery, New York 

2009 - “The invisible dog”, No Longer Empty gallery, New York 

2009 - “4 openings in Israeli art“, The Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2009 - “Art TLV” Biennial, Neve Tzedek tower site, Tel Aviv 

2009 - "Your cat is dead, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2009 - "A+4", The GSA, Glasgow 

2009 - "Artists at work", Hagada Hasmalit, Tel Aviv 

2009 - "The degenerate art", Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2008 - “Night and day”, Gilit Fisher gallery, Tel Aviv 

2008 - “Covering the sun”, Barbur gallery, Jerusalem 

2008 - "True Love", Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2007 - “Bechorot", Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2007 - “Desert generation”, the artist's house, Jerusalem & Hakibutz gallery, Tel Aviv 

2007 - “Cats” , Eretz Israel museum, Tel Aviv 

2007 - “Reshamim-3rd drawing biennial, The Artists House, Jerusalem 

2007 - “Beyond the principle”, Hamidrasha gallery, Beit Berl 

2007 – "Fresh Paint #1" Art Fair, Kastiel site, Tel-Aviv 

2006 - “Half-board”. Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv 

2006 - Graduates exhibition, Terminal 1, The Ben-Gurion airport 

Selected Publications: 

* 'In Praise of Avalanche'- Solo Exhibition catalog 2016, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2016 

* Talush (Rootless) - Exhibition catalog, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, 2016 

* Maayan Magazine: Patriotism in Art, Protest Anthology, Summer-Autumn 2016 /Issue No. 12 

* Cocks and Tits and Hurt Feelings, 2014 (Artist Book, self published) 

* Israel/One: Contemporary Artists from Israel (2014, Published by Fabrica, Italy) 

* Pe'amim, Studies in Oriental Jewry, Issue No. 133-134, Literature / Thought / Magic,2012-2013 (Ben-Zvi Institute) 

* Man On Fire (2012, Curator: Guy Ben Ari, Published by Meta Meta Meta LLC, NYC) 

* Criterion Magazine, Issue No.4, September 2012 /"Iconoclasm" * The New & Bad Art Magazine, Summer-Autumn 2012 /Issue No. 3 

* Formally Speaking: And what shall we do with painting in the 21st century? Exhibition catalog (2011, Haifa Museum of Art) 

* Leumi Art Collection: Selected Works (2010, Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir Pub.)