About the Artist
Shira Mushkin is an American Israeli, multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Israel. She was born in New Jersey, U.S.A. in 1963, and moved to Tel Aviv, Israel in 1982. Working primarily in photography as well as mixed media, installation, and video, she has exhibited in galleries and art and photo festivals in Israel and abroad.
Mushkin is a graduate (1986) of Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv, with a B.Ed in Art (2004) from Kaye Academic College of Education, and earned a M.A. in Art History and Visual Culture-Curating (2011) from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer Sheva.
In 2022, Mushkin received an Honorable Mention in the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 17th Pollux Awards in the Culture and Daily Life Series category, as well as Honorable Mention in 2021 in the 16th Pollux Awards in the Cityscapes Series category. In 2021, she won the 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers in the Cell Phone Through Digital Manipulation category. In 2020, Mushkin won the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers in the Digital Manipulation & Collage Through Landscapes and Seascapes category, and received Honorable Mention in the IPA-International Photography Awards 2020, in the Fine Art-Collage category.
Mushkin’s art seeks to capture the beauty and meaning found in everyday objects, scenes, and events, at home and on her travels. Her studio practice explores ideas about domesticity, gender, identity, and memory. She examines the way in which a mundane moment is elevated and recorded, prodding the memory of a past occurrence, as well as looking at the world through her perspective of life as an ephemeral existence, leading her to value life, and to preserve the memories of daily experiences.
Mushkin currently lives and works in Meitar, Israel.
Resumé:
2008-2010 — M.A. in Art History and Curatorship, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva
2000-2004 — B.A. in Art / Teaching Certificate, Kaye College, Beer- Sheva
1997-2000 — Visual Communications and Geography Studies, Ma’aleh and Lifshitz College, Jerusalem
1994-1996 — Graphic Design Studies, ORT Career School, Jerusalem
1983-1986 — Photography Studies, Camera Obscura School of Photography, Tel-Aviv
1982-1983 — Art Studies, Kalisher School of Art, Tel-Aviv
Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 — Daddy’s Little Girl, Al Ha’givah Gallery, Meitar, Israel. Curator: Haim Maor
Group Exhibitions:
2022 — Venice Biennale - Biennale Artbox Expo, "Artbox Projects Venezia 1.0," Tana Art Space, Fondamenta de la Tana, Venice, Italy
2022 — And What Was It All If Not a Slow Spreading of the Wings, N.D. Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel, Curator: Sari Golan
2022 — Circles of Life - Female Dialogue, 2022, Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Ayelet Amorai Biran
2021 — Barcelona Foto Biennale - 6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain, Curator: Dr. Analy Werbin, Julio Hirsch-Hardy
2021 — PHOTO IS:RAEL - The 9th International Photography Festival, “The Photography Community”, Shiva and the Yellow Pot, The Daniel Rowing Centre, Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Kineret Palti
2020 — PHOTO IS:RAEL - The 8th International Photography Festival, “Beauty Matters”, Kikar Hamidina, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Kineret Palti
2020 — Meitar Landscape, Al Ha’givah Gallery, Meitar, Israel. Curator: Dr. Rachel Krupp
2019 — Artbox Project Miami 2.0, Eduardo Lira Art Gallery, FL, USA
2019 — PHOTO IS:RAEL - The 7th International Photography Festival, “Beauty Matters”, Azrieli Sarona Tower, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Adva Raz
2019 — A Good Harvest, Ramat Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Ayelet Amorai Biran
2018 — Artbox Projects, Armory Art Week, Javits Center, New York, NY USA
2017 — LACDA Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. Curator: Rex Bruce
2015 — Past, Present, and Future: Celebrating 30 Years of Meitar, Al Ha’givah Gallery, Meitar, Israel. Curator: Lora Bahar
2013 — The Camera’s Eyes, Al Ha’givah Gallery, Meitar, Israel. Curator: Shira Mushkin
2010 — Meitarim, Al Ha’givah Gallery, Meitar, Israel. Curator: Dr. Rachel Krupp
Awards:
2022 — Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 17th Pollux Awards, Honorable Mention, Culture and Daily Life Series category
2021 — 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Winner, Cell Phone Through Digital Manipulation category
2021 — 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Honorable Mention, Open Theme Series category
2021 — Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 16th Pollux Awards, Honorable Mention, Cityscapes Series category
2020 — 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Winner, Digital Manipulation & Collage Through Landscapes and Seascapes category,
https://www.thegalaawards.com/15-th-jmca-nonpro-digital-manipulation-#
2020 — International Photography Award 2020, Honorable Mention, Fine Art, Collage, https://photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-203482-20&fbclid
Articles:
2022 — Portfolio Magazine, "Shira Mushkin - Living Memories," by Yuval Saar, January 29th, 2022, https://www.prtfl.co.il/archives/158954
2022 — FOTONOSTRUM Magazine, "Shira Mushkin," by Vanesa Peña and Laura Perera, Issue No. 23, January 19, 2022, pp. 34 - 47
2020 — The Good Life Magazine,“The Weaver of Memories,” By Yael Efrati, December 27, 2020, Issue 180, January 2021, Magazine Club 50, pp. 36-38, https://www.flipsnack.com/Club50/2021.html
2020 — The Jerusalem Post, “The Beauty of Photographing Cemeteries,” By Barbara Sofer, August 14, 2020, Volume LXXXVIII Number 26771, p. 30, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/the-beauty-of-photographing-cemeteries-6384
Collections:
Selected private collections in Israel and the USA