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Noa Simhayof Shahaf is a multidisciplinary artist who creates films, installations, and performances.
Their work offers a technology-driven gaze into mechanisms of surveillance and intimidation, and how they encounter cultural tropes and narratives of the body and its horizons of possibility.

CV

  • B. 1996, Raanana, based 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 – Mariusz 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

  • 2025 Awarded First Prize, Ostrovsky Family Fund, for Experimental Cinema in Jerusalem Film Festival
  • 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)

Selected Press (in Hebrew)