Guy
Goldstein
Guy Goldstein holds an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2007), and a BA in Visual Communication Art and Design from the WIZO Haifa Academy of Art and Design (2001). Goldstein is a visual artist, as well a musician – he is a bass player in the Israeli rock band “Reines Girls”. Goldstein serves as the director of the Visual Communication Department at the Musrara School of Art in Jerusalem.
Goldstein has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Hansen House, Jerusalem (2023); Artport Tel Aviv (2022); the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska; the Petah Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art (2018, 2014); the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); Školská 28 Gallery, Prague; the Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington DC (2015); Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York (2014); and the Rooster Gallery, New York (2012).
Goldstein has also participated in various group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, with his works shown in venues such as the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco; Ostrale O16 Biennale, Dresden; 5th Mediations Biennale, Poznań; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Ashdod Museum, Israel; Bat Yam Museum, Israel; Haifa Museum, Israel; Petach Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; KW, Berlin; Palazzo Dona, Venice Biennale; Les Gens Heureux Gallery, Copenhagen; Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland, and many more.
Goldstein has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Keshet Award, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2017), The Plumas Art Foundation (2023) Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts Award (2015, 2020); Artis grant (2015, 2018, 2020); The Ostrovsky Family Grant for New Video Production (2017); Outset Contemporary Art Fund grant (2014); Israel Ministry of Science and Culture Award (2012); and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award (2008-2009).
I am known as a sound, drawing and installation artist, with a unique language employs the materials and tools of music and sound which I translate through innovative technological means to visual images and vice versa. Vocal tension, collisions between mechanical objects, and vain attempts to foster cooperation and harmony between objects, sounds, drawings, and narratives, characterize my work. The relationship between sound and image is rarely linear or teleological, and the transition process may be influenced by chance or random mistake. I often use a cyclical logic where each form is an impetus for another kind of form, as a means to investigate the viewer’s mechanical and emotional perception. The virtual materiality of sound enables me to mold it into a form that holds a multiplicity of possible positions, an abstract diagram which is capable of materializing in countless manifestations.
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Guy Goldstein holds an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2007), and a BA in Visual Communication Art and Design from the WIZO Haifa Academy of Art and Design (2001). Goldstein is a visual artist, as well a musician – he is a bass player in the Israeli rock band “Reines Girls”. Goldstein serves as the director of the Visual Communication Department at the Musrara School of Art in Jerusalem.
Goldstein has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Hansen House, Jerusalem (2023); Artport Tel Aviv (2022); the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska; the Petah Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art (2018, 2014); the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); Školská 28 Gallery, Prague; the Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington DC (2015); Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York (2014); and the Rooster Gallery, New York (2012).
Goldstein has also participated in various group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, with his works shown in venues such as the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco; Ostrale O16 Biennale, Dresden; 5th Mediations Biennale, Poznań; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Ashdod Museum, Israel; Bat Yam Museum, Israel; Haifa Museum, Israel; Petach Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; KW, Berlin; Palazzo Dona, Venice Biennale; Les Gens Heureux Gallery, Copenhagen; Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland, and many more.
Goldstein has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Keshet Award, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2017), The Plumas Art Foundation (2023) Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts Award (2015, 2020); Artis grant (2015, 2018, 2020); The Ostrovsky Family Grant for New Video Production (2017); Outset Contemporary Art Fund grant (2014); Israel Ministry of Science and Culture Award (2012); and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award (2008-2009).