Nomi Talisman works with photography, video, and other art forms. She likes to use the colors orange and blue and has a special fondness for hard drives, (which probably means she's either a geek, or just a consumer; perhaps both). She has exhibited her work in Israel, where she was born, and in Europe (EU and others), Canada and the U.S. She will exhibit her work in Japan, very soon. Her video work often explores notions of 'the real', and has been screened internationally. She likes traveling. She would love to have more time, for no particular reason, or use. She thinks multitasking is overrated. She likes to experiment with sound in her work, although she would not call herself a musician. Neither would her landlord, dog, nor her partner. Talisman currently lives in San Francisco, CA. You can contact her at |
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The artist in her studio, cir. 1970 |
Nomi Talisman - CV |
| Videography | |
2008 |
Impact - a video project with Dee Hibbert-Jones. Part 1: Daisy's Story, 3:00 min. In progress |
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2003 _ |
Home movie #1, 5 Min. With Heike Liss Plan B, 4 Min. You will pass a difficult test that will make you Happier, 2:35 Min |
| Selected Screenings | |
2008 |
Mobile Archive at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V., Germany |
2007 |
Mobile Archive, WYSPA Art Institute in Gdansk, Poland The Mobile Archive - Bay Area Shorts program at Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany Found Footage work, Salt Lake City Arts Center, UT Open Video Project - Milan, Italy and the US Stranger than Fiction, The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland Gallery 400, Illinois University at Chicago AntiMatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC Canada Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart, Germany FLEFF Film Festival, Ithaca, NY MadCat Interntional Women's Film Festival, San Francisco |
2006 |
The Open Archive, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Avant to Live, New Experimental work, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA |
2005 |
Academic Film Archives of North America @ Works San Jose, San Jose, CA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart, Germany Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute, Southampton, UK |
2004 |
AntiMatter Festival, Victoria BC Canada |
2003 |
AntiMatter Festival, Victoria BC, Canada 21 Grand, Oakland, CA Bard College, Annandale- on- Hudson, NY |
2002 |
Appropriate, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
2007 |
Psychological Prosthetics: Emotional Baggage, public interventions, Chicago, IL Other Peoples’ Things, San Francisco Recycling and Disposal AIR Program (external link) PP Valise gallery sponsored performance/exhibition The Millais Gallery, Southampton, England PP Valise, gallery sponsored performance: Berkeley Art Museum Garden, Berkeley PP Valise Interventions:: (external link) |
| _• Winchester, England. _• St. Paul’s Cathedral, Waterloo Bridge London, England _• Place Georges-Pompidou, Paris _• Marktplatz Basel, Switzerland, _• Rothschild Blvd, Tel Aviv, Israel __(collaboration with Dee Hibbert-Jones) |
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2005 |
Elsewhere Installation, Elsewhere Artists’ Collaborative, Greensboro, NC “Just like in the Movies”, The Austin law group, SF, CA “Group/Ungroup”, The Gallery at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel “Look and listen. Say that”, Beit Berl College of Art, Israel “Where I’m Calling from”, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel “Nomi Talisman” Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Selected Group Exhibtions | |
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• Escape, Galerie Califia, Zamek Horazd'ovice, The Czech Republic |
| Collaborations and Projects (also check out www.operatinginstructions.org) | |
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• Meta/Data, online project commission, Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California • Are we there yet? A sound project on the Yokohama subway system, Dislocate 08 • Co-curator, The Show starts at the Sidewalk, screening series for Interrupt! Intervene! Art as Social Change conference, hosted by UC Santa Cruz • Screening programs at The Lab (Co-curator), San Francisco • Psychological Prosthetics, with Dee Hibbert-Jones and Feel Tank, University of Chicago • Vacant Inventory - A Catalog of Space, with Dee Hibbert-Jones • Bay Area Shorts for the Open Archive @ the Israeli Center for Digital Media (program - PDF) • Summer film program curator, The Lab, San Francisco: _____• Introductiong Fluctuating Images (Stuttgart, Germany) _____• Road Movies (both curated with Heike Liss) _____• Stranger Than Fiction (for program) • The Academic Film Archive of North America, with Works/ San Jose. (Invitational project) • Psychological Prosthetics with Dee Hibbert-Jones. Funded by UCSC grants and Institute of Research in the Arts • “Letters to an Unknown Friend”, Site specific interactive installation in collaboration with Dee Hibbert-Jones; supported by the __National Endowment for the Arts for Sacred Spaces at Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA • “Take a Letter”, performance, with Dee Hibbert-Jones, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA |
| 2003 1998 1997 1997 1995 |
• “Home Movie #1”, video, 5 Min. with Heike Liss • Jerusalem au Pluriel, Commissioned Photographic project for a symposium held at Marseille, France • Mobile Seminar. Participated in a two-day Mobile-Seminar for Palestinian and Israeli artists and individuals involved in the arts • An installation with Artist Miriam Cabessa, Another Language, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel, with the Artists' Museum, Poland • Studio-Shelters, documentation of artists’ studios in public shelters, commissioned by the city of Tel Aviv Art Dept. and the Public Art & Culture Committee |
| 1993 | • Photographic project with Adi Nes, documenting the Jewish Gay community in London. The Anglo-Israeli Photographic Awards_ (Multi Exposure), London, UK |
| Publication of Work | |
2006 |
SlashSeconds, online magazine/gallery from Leeds University,UK (video work) N-Media, New Media Caucus, CAA. Writing about video work, by invitation Click any letter, Artists’ book, with Dee Hibbert-Jones “Documents Between”. Ed; Elizabeth Block, San Francisco "Any One at Home?" a piece in five parts, designed for the back page of Ha'ir (weekly magazine), Israel Series of Photographs on the back page of Ha'ir (weekly supplement), Israel Publication of portfolio in Theory and Criticism, Vol. 5, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel Portfolio 1994, Borochov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, special edition photographic print |
| Bibliography: Books, magazines, newspapers, or online (selected) | |
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• 15 Bytes review of SF Recycled at Salt Lake City Art Center, December 2007 • Psychological Prosthetics, Yaelle Amir, SlashSeconds July 2007 "Things that Move" (PDF) • Garbage In, Art out. Paul Kilduff, SF Chronicle, December 2005 • Here, There, Everywhere: artists’ projects. By Terri Cohn for Stretcher.org • A 15-year Retrospective of the Norcal Artist Residency at the Dump, Steven Wolf Fine Art. Review, Clark Buckner, _ Artweek, Sep.2005 • Let's Call it Art (CAA Recognizes the New Media). Juliet Davis, Rhizome.org (online), march 2005 • Off Site: Nomi Talisman at the Austin Law Group. Terri Cohn, Artweek, Dec 2004-Jan 2005 • The Next Generation, Combing the MFA shows for up and coming tech artists, Glen Helfand, SF Gate, May 22nd, 2003 • In Between, Grad students at Mills, East Bay Express, Lindsay Westbrook, April 25th, 2003 • The Israeli Lexicon Of Photography, Ed. Guy Raz. Mapa Publishers (with the Kibbutz Hameuchad ), Israel, _2002 • Graduates of the post graduate studies at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Sarah Breitberg- Semel, Studio Art Magazine, _ No. 97, Nov. 1998 • Israeli Photography - possible narratives, Eyal Ben Dov, Studio Art Magazine, No. 91, March 1998 • Nomi Talisman, "Look & Listen, Say That", Galia Yahav, Studio Art Magazine, No. 84, July 1997 • Nomi Talisman, "Where I'm Calling from", Camera Obscura Gallery, Eyal Ben Dov Studio Art Magazine, No. 71, April- May 1996 • Nomi Talisman, Camera Obscura Gallery, Curator: Vered Maimon, Ester Dotan, Studio Art Magazine No. 70, March- April 1996 • Focus - Nomi Talisman / Curator's choice Vered Maimon, 4x5 Art Magazine, No. 75, March 1996 • Where is Nomi Talisman calling from? Hadas Maor Shishi, Weekly Supplement, March 8, 1996 |
| Catalogs | |
2007 |
Psychological Prosthetics, a catalog for "pathogeographies", Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago. Microcosm, The Richmond Art center, Richmond, CA (PDF) Microcosm, The Project at The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA (PDF) Sacred Spaces, The Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Fetish: Art/Word, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA 100 Years of Photography in the Land of Israel, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Condition Report - Photography in Israel Today, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Catalog and CD) The Ministry of Culture and Education's Young Artists Prize, Israel Another Language, Haifa Museum, in collaboration with the Artists' Museum, Poland Multi-Purpose: Artists Studio/ Public Shelter. Tel Aviv, Israel 90-70-90 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel The Anglo - Israeli Photographic Awards, The Artists House Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, Akehurst Gallery, London, UK The Suitcase, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Third Person, Bograshov Gallery and Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Visiting Art Lectures/ Talks/ Residencies (selected) | |
2008 |
Red Mill artist residency, The Czech Republic Stanford University, Artist talk and screening California College of the Arts, Artist talk CESTA, Tabor (The Czech Republic) - Waste Festival University of Chicago, IL. Artist talk (Psychological Prosthetics) Contemporary art workshop Artist Talk, Image-World, Mills College Art Dept. Oakland, CA Juror, Work/San Jose residency program San Francisco Art Institute, graduate seminar, artist talk Sacramento State University, (California) video screening with artist talk Stanford University (CA) video screening with artist talk Artist in Residence Program, SF Recycling & Disposal Inc. San Francisco, CA UC Santa Cruz. Screening, artists, talk, Intermedia program UNC Chapel Hill, NC. Artist talk and video screening Elsewhere, Artists Collaborative Project, Greensboro, NC CAA Conference: “Screen shots and audio Effects”, panelist. Atlanta, GA Sight Unseen, KLAX Radio, Berkeley, CA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Artist talk with screening Benicia Arts Center, Panel, Cream, Benicia, CA Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, artist talk, Jerusalem, Israel Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Photography department, Jerusalem, Israel Beit Berl School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel. Artist talk The gallery at Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Artist talk Akehurst Gallery, London, UK, Artists House Gallery, Jerusalem, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv. Organized by The Anglo-Israeli Photographic Awards board |
| Awards, Prizes and Scholarships | |
2008 |
SECA award nominee (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) Visions from the New California Award nominee National Endowment for the Arts in conjunction with Berkeley Arts Center exhibition “Sacred Spaces” Jay DeFeo Award for an outstanding achievement, MFA thesis exhibition, Mills College, CA Graduate Research Grant, Mills College, CA Herringer Prize for Excellence in Art, Mills College, CA The Young Artists Prize, The Ministry of Culture and Education, Israel Sharett Fund Scholarship (The Israel - America Cultural Fund), Israel Sharett Fund Scholarship (The Israel - America Cultural Fund), Israel The Anglo - Israeli Photographic Awards (Multi- Exposure), England-Israel |
| Education | |
2003 |
MFA; Mills College, Oakland, CA. Photography, video & electronic arts Post Graduate studies, Young Artists Program, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel Art Teachers Training College, Beit Berl School of Art, Ramat Hasharon, Israel Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel. Photography |
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Photographing at the Yuma Crossing, AZ, 2007 |
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