Noa Simhayof Shahaf
B. 1996, Raanana, live and work in Tel aviv.
Education
2018-2023 BFA, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2022 Student Exchange Program, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Art, Kraków, Poland.
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025 Escape Will Get You Tonight, curator - Nir Evron, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2024 Sea Level (with Yaacov Hefetz), curator - Maruisz Sołtysik, OPCJA Gallery, Kraków, Poland.
2023 Sleight of Hand, curatorial advisor - Alona Rodeh, BFA grad exhibition, Shenkar College, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2021 Head in the Hole, curator - Nira Pereg, Bursa Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Group Exhibitions
2025 The Backdoors, curator - Hadasa Cohen, Kfar Saba Gallery, Israel.
2025 Clap Wings, curator - Orit Bulgaru and Shir Wissel, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2024 Morning Prayer, curator - Shachaf Levy, Hanut Aliya Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2023 A Simple Response to an Elemental Message, curators- Omer Sheizaf and Yoav Weinfeld, Ta’ar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2023 Krakers Art Festival, curator - Maruisz Sołtysik, Kraków, Poland.
2022 Time Space, curators - Noga Or Yam and Faina Feigin, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2021 Knofi, curator - Noa Sheizaf, N.D Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 How To Make Friends Online, curator - Liel Bomberg, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2020 Body, Space, Identity, curator - Shir Newman, Hagra Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. As part of Loving Art Making Art Festival.
2020 Layers, curator - Shirley Wegner, N.D Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Performance Art
2023 Mercenary (with Kobi Swissa and Yoel Peled), Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv, Israel,
as part of the Out Of Office performance program, curator - Guy Bernard Reichmann.
2022 PACT, co-creator (with Ido Feder and Hakahlahaka group), Diver Festival.
Cultural Entrepreneurship
2018 - 2019 Founding member of Bush Collective - queer-feminist mixed media collective maintaining safe spaces and platforms
for art, dialogue and solidarity.
participation in group exhibitions: Sequence, The LGBTQ Center (2019) Light Pollution, Night Light Festival (2019) Entering The Bush, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery (2018) all held in Tel Aviv, Israel
Grants and Collections
2024 Shoken (Haaretz media group) Collection, Tel Aviv
2024 Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Grant
2023 Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Grant
Residencies
2025 (June) Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad, Israel
2024 Stanisław Wyspiański House Foundation, Kraków, Poland
Teaching
2025 Assistant Proffesor of Nira Pereg in Shenkar College,Video Art studio
2023-onwards Founder and teacher of Radio For Kids workshop, Liebling Haus, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Professional Experience
2018-onwards | Director Of Photography, editor and producer of video art pieces, amongst them:
Drums and Dancing by Ana Wild and Nir Shauloff, curator - Udi Edelman, CDA Holon Pavilion, Gwangju Biennial, China (2024)
Motherland by Ruth Patir, curators - Mira Lapidot and Tamar Margalit, Israeli pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy (2023)
Through the Window by Hila Toony Navok, curator - Anat Danon Sivan, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2023)
Twilight Zones by Nira Pereg, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2022)
Park Harhoshot Project by Tom Soloveitzik and Anat Shamgar (2021)
NO GO NO SHOW by Michal Helfman and Ido Feder / PACKED by Bosmat Nossan (2020, as part of Diver Festival covid edition)
2019-onwards | Performer:
This is Technology by Tino Seghal, as part of Imagine a Museum, curator - Ruti Direktor, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2023)
At-Hand by Ido Feder, Intimadance Festival, Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel (2019)
2019-onwards Director Of Photography of music videos:
Scary by Daniel Slabosky
White Fat And Rich Boy by Shay TRA Litman, Sugar By The White Screen.
2020 Assistant Producer, Kafka for Kids by Roee Rosen (feature film).
Selected Press (in Hebrew)
2024 Review of Morning Prayer, by Smadar Sheffi, The Window magazine for art critique.
2023 Wonder Box, about A Simple Response to an Elemental Message, by Uzi Tzur, Haaretz newspaper.
2019 Interview by Doron Braunsteinת, ‘Living Culture’ Blog.
B. 1996, Raanana, live and work in Tel aviv.
Education
2018-2023 BFA, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2022 Student Exchange Program, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Art, Kraków, Poland.
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025 Escape Will Get You Tonight, curator - Nir Evron, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2024 Sea Level (with Yaacov Hefetz), curator - Maruisz Sołtysik, OPCJA Gallery, Kraków, Poland.
2023 Sleight of Hand, curatorial advisor - Alona Rodeh, BFA grad exhibition, Shenkar College, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2021 Head in the Hole, curator - Nira Pereg, Bursa Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Group Exhibitions
2025 The Backdoors, curator - Hadasa Cohen, Kfar Saba Gallery, Israel.
2025 Clap Wings, curator - Orit Bulgaru and Shir Wissel, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2024 Morning Prayer, curator - Shachaf Levy, Hanut Aliya Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2023 A Simple Response to an Elemental Message, curators- Omer Sheizaf and Yoav Weinfeld, Ta’ar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2023 Krakers Art Festival, curator - Maruisz Sołtysik, Kraków, Poland.
2022 Time Space, curators - Noga Or Yam and Faina Feigin, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2021 Knofi, curator - Noa Sheizaf, N.D Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 How To Make Friends Online, curator - Liel Bomberg, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2020 Body, Space, Identity, curator - Shir Newman, Hagra Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. As part of Loving Art Making Art Festival.
2020 Layers, curator - Shirley Wegner, N.D Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Performance Art
2023 Mercenary (with Kobi Swissa and Yoel Peled), Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv, Israel,
as part of the Out Of Office performance program, curator - Guy Bernard Reichmann.
2022 PACT, co-creator (with Ido Feder and Hakahlahaka group), Diver Festival.
Cultural Entrepreneurship
2018 - 2019 Founding member of Bush Collective - queer-feminist mixed media collective maintaining safe spaces and platforms
for art, dialogue and solidarity.
participation in group exhibitions: Sequence, The LGBTQ Center (2019) Light Pollution, Night Light Festival (2019) Entering The Bush, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery (2018) all held in Tel Aviv, Israel
Grants and Collections
2024 Shoken (Haaretz media group) Collection, Tel Aviv
2024 Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Grant
2023 Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Grant
Residencies
2025 (June) Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad, Israel
2024 Stanisław Wyspiański House Foundation, Kraków, Poland
Teaching
2025 Assistant Proffesor of Nira Pereg in Shenkar College,Video Art studio
2023-onwards Founder and teacher of Radio For Kids workshop, Liebling Haus, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Professional Experience
2018-onwards | Director Of Photography, editor and producer of video art pieces, amongst them:
Drums and Dancing by Ana Wild and Nir Shauloff, curator - Udi Edelman, CDA Holon Pavilion, Gwangju Biennial, China (2024)
Motherland by Ruth Patir, curators - Mira Lapidot and Tamar Margalit, Israeli pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy (2023)
Through the Window by Hila Toony Navok, curator - Anat Danon Sivan, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2023)
Twilight Zones by Nira Pereg, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2022)
Park Harhoshot Project by Tom Soloveitzik and Anat Shamgar (2021)
NO GO NO SHOW by Michal Helfman and Ido Feder / PACKED by Bosmat Nossan (2020, as part of Diver Festival covid edition)
2019-onwards | Performer:
This is Technology by Tino Seghal, as part of Imagine a Museum, curator - Ruti Direktor, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2023)
At-Hand by Ido Feder, Intimadance Festival, Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel (2019)
2019-onwards Director Of Photography of music videos:
Scary by Daniel Slabosky
White Fat And Rich Boy by Shay TRA Litman, Sugar By The White Screen.
2020 Assistant Producer, Kafka for Kids by Roee Rosen (feature film).
Selected Press (in Hebrew)
2024 Review of Morning Prayer, by Smadar Sheffi, The Window magazine for art critique.
2023 Wonder Box, about A Simple Response to an Elemental Message, by Uzi Tzur, Haaretz newspaper.
2019 Interview by Doron Braunsteinת, ‘Living Culture’ Blog.