Shay Zilberman
Shay Zilberman (b. 1976, Ramla; lives and works in Jaffa) holds BFA from Beaux-Arts de Paris (with honors), and in 2003 he studied fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In 2021, Zilberman was the recipient of the Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Prize for Visual Art in Israel, and in 2022, he received the Alima Prize for the Art of Printmaking in Israel.
Zilberman’s work has featured in solo exhibitions, including at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Tel Aviv Artists’ House; Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv; Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art and Studies, HaZore'a; and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. In addition, Zilberman has participated in dual and group exhibitions, including at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; PCG galleries, Providence, RI; Haifa Museum of Art; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. His works are in the collections of the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum, Petach Tikva Museum of Arts, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, and private collections in Israel and abroad.
During the past decade and a half, Zilberman has adopted photography-based handmade collage and printmaking as his main practice. This involves a complex set of strategies, beginning with the search for raw visual materials, hunting for and browsing through albums, photo-books, magazines, and catalogs. All of these publications, although varied in scope, aesthetics, and content, reflect fragments of eclectic visual culture and how it has shaped itself, its desires, and interests through popular travel journeys, leisure, botany, science, how-to literature, and more. By using this pool of print materials, Zilberman creates an alternative imaginary of local histories and aspirations, an encounter between the personal and collective, the nostalgic and contemporary. Photos: courtesy of Shay Zilberman Studio
