News:
Estuaries: Performance video is available to watch here
Naama Tsabar: Estuaries exhibition catalogue / edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath, published by the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen. Available for purchase online and on site at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum shop (Berlin).
Naama Tsabar: Perimeters hybrid vinyl record and exhibition catalogue, released by the Bass Museum, available for purchase on site at the Bass museum shop (Miami). For purchase online: Shulamit Nazarian gallery (LA), Kasmin gallery (NY)
purchase in person: The Bass Museum, Miami
Current and Upcoming:
GROUP SHOWS
Roots of Rhythm Remain, Dvir gallery, Paris. March 29 - May 10, 2025.
Frequencies, MOCA Tucson, curated by Bhavisha Panchia and Alexis Wilkinson. February 28 - June 29, 2025.
Publications:
Naama Tsabar: Estuaries, 2024, exhibition catalogue / edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath, published by the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen. To order online
Naama Tsabar: Perimeters, 2022, hybrid vinyl record and exhibition catalogue, released by the Bass Museum, For purchase online: Nazarian / Curcio (LA), Kasmin gallery (NY)
Naama Tsabar (Opus 1), 2019, produced by Faena Art Center Buenos Aires, Kunsthaus Baselland and CCA Tel Aviv, Mousse Publishing. To order online
Fantasy America, 2021, Group show at the Warhol Museum. To Order online
Solo, Three Person Exhibitions and Projects:
2024 Friction, Nazarian / Curcio, LA
Estuaries, curated by Ingrid Buschmann, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
2023 Layers and Formations, Dvir Gallery, Paris
Breaks and Suspensions, Shulamit Nazarian, LA
2022 Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 6), The Wadsworth Atheneum museum, Connecticut
Perimeters, Bass Museum, Miami
Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 5), KinoSaito, New York
2021 Transitions#5, Goodman Gallery, London
Dreams are Like Water, Dvir Gallery, Israel
2020 Inversions, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles
Untitled #3 (From the Double Face Museum Series), Frieze projects the back lot of Paramount Studios, Los Angeles
2019 Dedicated, Kasmin Gallery, NY
2018 Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 3), Center for Contemporary Art, Israel
Dedicated, Dvir Gallery, Brussels,
Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 2), Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires
Transboundary #2, The Fireplace Project, NY
Transitions #4, Kunsthuas Baselland, Basel Switzerland
2017 Propagation (Opus 3), Museum Of Art and Design, NY
Stranger, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
Transboundary, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Transitions #3, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
Transitions #2, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Transitions, Paramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Guadalajara
2015 Propagation (Opus 3), curated by Claire Breukel, MARTE-C, El Salvador
2014 Blood Makes Noise, curated by Nat Trotman, Guggenheim Museum, New York (3 Person)
2014 Impressions, 247365 Gallery, New York
2014 Without, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, Randall’s Island, New York
2013 Propagation (Opus 2), curated by Hadas Maor, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (3 Person)
2012 Propagation (Opus 1), Thierry-Goldberg Gallery, New York
2010 Sweat, Tel Aviv Museum of Art – The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation finalists, Tel Aviv
Paul Thek Says Make A Monkey Out Of Clay, Curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Miami design district, Miami Basel, Miami. (3 person)
2008 Night Falls, Pianissimo Gallery, Milan, Italy
2007 Encore, Art statements, Art Basel 38, Switzerland
Encore, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2006 Twilight, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2004 More Then This, curated by Yoav Shmueli, Sommer gallery, Tel-Aviv. (3 person)
Performances:
2024 Untitled (Double Face), Douai, France.
Friction, composed and performed in a collaboration with Gabriela Burdsall, Jeanann Dara, Sarah Strauss and Naama Tsabar. Nazarian / Curcio, LA.
Estuaries, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany.
2023 Performance on Works on Felt (Variation 11 and 2) SFMOMA, part of the exhibition What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms, composed in collaboration and performed by Jenna Flohr and Dylan Edrich
Untitled (Double Face), part of the exhibition program “Before Tomorrow”, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo.
Barricade (Ruptures), Performed and composed in collaboration with FIELDED, Rose Blanshei and Wolf Weston. KorSonoR, Geneva
Untitled (Double Face), Latifa Echakhch’s Messeplatz Project, Art Basel
Performance on Work on Felt (Variation 2 and 11), As part of the exhibition What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms, composed in collaboration and performed by Jenna Flohr, Dylan Edrich and Naama Tsabar. SFMOMA.
Layers and Formations, Composed and performed in collaboration with: Fielded, Kristin Mueller, Sarah Strauss and Naama Tsabar. Dvir gallery, Paris
2022 Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 5), Composed and performed in collaboration with: Rose Blanshei, Larkin Grimm, Maya Perry, Sarah Strauss and Naama Tsabar. KinoSaito Arts Center, NY, 2022
Melodies of Certain Damage, CAC New Orleans composed and performed in collaboration with Tasche de la Rocha, Larkin Grimm and Naama Tsabar
2021 Untitled (Double Face), The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
Perimeters, the Bass museum, Miami, composed in collaboration with Gabriela Burdsall, Ale Campos, Fielded, Lee Muze, Robbi Robsta, Gabrielle Sheerer, Sarah Strauss and Naama Tsabar
Transitions#5, Goodman Gallery, London, composed and performed by FIELDED, Kristin Mueller, Sarah Strauss and Naama Tsabar.
2020 Inversions, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, composed and performed by Nicki Chen-Walters, Diana Diaz, FIELDED, Kristin Mueller, Sarah Strauss and Naama Tsabar.
Untitled (Double Face), Frieze Art Fair, Los Angeles.
2019 Composition 21, Nasher Museum of Art, NC, Composed and performed in collaboration with Maria Albani, shirlette ammons, Blair Coppage, Haylie Fehl, L.A. Fey, Leo Fitzpatrick, Jen Fuh, Elizabeth Hammond, Laura King,
Sus Long, Alison Martlew, H.C. McEntire, Reese McHenry, Sinclair Palmer, Kym Register, Nora Rogers, Sarah Strauss, Kamara Thomas, Mara Thomas, Sarah Ward and Jenny Waters
Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 4) , Kasmin Galler, NY, written and performed in collaboration with Rose Blanshei, Rosana Caban, Taja Cheek, Frederique Gnaman
and Sarah Strauss
Barricades (Ruptures), Elevation 1049, Frequencies, in collaboration with Rose Blanshei, FIELDED and Wolf Weston, Gstaad, Switzerland
2018 Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 3), Composed and performed by Rotem Frimer, Nina Loeterman, Maya Perry, Moran Victoria Sabbag, Sarah Strauss and Naama Tsabar at Center for Contemporary Art, Israel
Untitled (Double Face), at Independent Art Fair, Brussels
Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 2), Composed and performed by Gabriela Areal, Rose Blanshei, Florencia Curci, Violeta García, Luciana Rizzo, Natalia Spiner, Sarah Strauss Naama Tsabar and Carola Zelaschi at
Faena, Buenos Aires
Untitled (Double Face) at The Watermill Center benefit 2018, NY
Transitions #4 Composed and performed by Anna Erhard, FIELDED, Kristin Mueller, Sarah Strauss, Naama Tsabar and Anja Waldkircher, Kunsthaus Baselland
Melodies of Certain Damage Composed and performed by Rose Blanshei, Taja Cheek, Jeanann Dara, Sarah Strauss, Naama Tsabar at Soluna festival in Dallas
2017 Composition 21, Composed and performed by Dana Abbott, KC St. Afford, Jenn Attaway, Jaz Butler, Joy Clark, Eloise Davis, Lynn Drury, Helen Gillet, Wanda Joseph, Meschiya Lake, Gina Marie Leslie, Kelcy Mae, Tiffany
Morris, Julie Odell, Sarah Quintana, Tasche de la Rocha, Kathryn Rose, Mayumi Shara, Kei Slaughter, Sarah Strauss and Boyanna Trayanova, Prospect .4 New Orleans
Untitled (Double Face), Basilica Soundscape, Hudson NY
Untitled (Double Face) performed on by Kristin Mueller and Naama Tsabar, DO DISTURB Festival, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2016 Composition 18, Art Basel Miami Beach Public, curated by Nicholas Baume, Miami Beach
Composition 20, The High Line Art, curated by Cecilia Alemani, New York City
2014 Untitled (Babies), Auto Body exhibition Giant Motors Warehouse, Miami Beach
Untitled (Double Face) performed on by Kristin Mueller and Naama Tsabar at Silencio, Paris, France
Untitled (Babies) performed at the Artist Festival, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2013 A set of 13 unique performances on Propagation (Opus 2), Tel Aviv museum, Israel
Propagation (Opus 2), 8 unique performances at Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
2012 Naama Tsabar and the Propagationists, a set of 6 unique performance at Thierry-Goldberg Gallery, NYC
2010 Untitled (Speaker Walls) at Moma/PS1, NYC
Doublesilverburst performed on by Kristin Mueller and Naama Tsabar at Moma/PS1, NYC
2009 Composition 8, performance for 8 musicians at X Initiative, NYC
Composition 24, performance for 24 musicians, Art Focus, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 Composition 24, performance for 24 musicians, Herziliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
Group Exhibitions:
2025 Aeon, Dvir gallery, Tel Aviv.
2024 Movement Towards Freedom, curated by Leilani Lynch, MCA Denver, Colorado.
Temporary Disappearance, Dvir Gallery, Paris.
Air Loom, curated by Ellen Cassilly and Frank Konhaus, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
NON Objectified, curated by Kathy Battista, KinoSaito, New York.
permanent collection exhibition, PAMM, Miami.
I Never Dream Otherwise Than Awake – Journeys in Sound, curated by Marcella Lista, Centre Pompidou Shanghai
Rewilding, Kunsthaus-Baselland, Basel.
A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions, Goodman Gallery Cape Town.
2023 What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms, SFMOMA.
Reverberations: Contemporary Art and Modern Classics, Seattle Art Museum
Signal To Noise, curated by Michael Slenske, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles.
Gimme Shelter, the Historic Hampton House, a Green Book Hotel Museum, Miami.
Eggshell on Palm, Dvir Gallery, Paris.
Festival KorSonoR - visual and sound art, Geneva
One That Includes Myth, Goodman Gallery, London.
The Future Is Behind Us, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town
Rewire Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
Shades of Daphne, Kasmin Gallery, New York
2022 Material Imagination: Israeli Art from the Museum’s Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Monochrome Multitudes, SMART museum, Chicago
Paracusia: Of Sounds & Visions, Keweing gallery, Berlin
10 Years, Shulamit Nazarian gallery, Los Angeles
Croque-morts, Dvir gallery, Paris
#fail, CAC New Orleans
Bajo el Sol, Travesía Cuatro gallery, Madrid
Espèces d’espaces, Dvir gallery, Paris
Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston
Salon de Paris, Dvir gallery, Brussels
Rare Earths, curator: Marcella Beccaria, IN/SITU 2022, Expo Chicago
Under the Volcano, Dvir gallery, Tel Aviv
The Musical Brain, High Line
2021 The Institution: The Museum and Israeliness, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Fantasy America, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Ellis Island, The Jewish Museum of Belgium, Belgium
The Queen’s Gambit, Dvir Gallery
A4 -JOY OF UNRELIABILITY, MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam
2020 Unflagging, Ballroom Marfa, Texas
A4 -JOY OF UNRELIABILITY, Sint-Lukasgalerie
Fountain//Dissidents, Rothschild 9, Tel Aviv
News from Home, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Adapt and Pivot, Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto, Canada
ALL TOGETHER NOW!, Shulamit Nazarian online viewing room.
2019 Soft Architecture, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
I've Grown Roses in this Garden of Mine, Goodman Gallery, London, UK
Encountered Error, Société gallery, Brussels
BIG ORCHESTRA, Schirn Kunshalle, Frankfurt, Germany
See the Unseen, iFactory, Shenzhen, China
2018 Mort à crédit, Dvir Gallery, Israel
FREE!, Brickell City Centre, Miami
The Skin of the Sound, CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art
KEDEM–KODEM–KADIMA, Center for Contemporary art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Hanging By a Nail, By a Thread, By The Skin of Your Teeth, Spinello Projects, Miami
2017 The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp, Prospect New Orleans 4, New Orleans
Escape Attempts, curated by Kathy Battista, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles
Winter Harvest, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
2016 TM StadTriennale, This is the Sound of TM, curated by Tim Goossens, Hasselt/Genk
SpaceTime - video art and installation from Haaretz Collection, Curated by Efrat Livny, Tel Aviv
2015 Full Moon, Spinello Project, Miami
Under Construction, Paramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
Auto Body, Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
How To Tell If Your Krill Oil Supplements Are Ripping You Off, curated by Jonathan Durham, Abrons Arts Center, NYC
Point Of Contact, curated by Xavier Acarin, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, NY
2014 Work In Public, curated by Rachel Alliston, Decad Gallery , Berlin
Les yeux seuls sont encore capables de pousser un cri, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Chicago Triangle, curated by Ruti Director, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
They Sicken of the Calm who Know the Storm, curated by Maureen Sullivan, Fridman gallery, NYC
2013 Dead In August, curated by Meaghan Kent, on the Lilac, New York
Thanks, stollen/curated by Adam Parker Smith, Lu Magnes Gallery, NYC
2012 Closer, Spinello Projects, Miami
Perfect Lovers, Curated by Anthony Spinello, White Box Gallery, NYC
The Big Masonite, Curated by Liz Hagag, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Opulent Vision, Ford Project, NYC
2011 Uncommon Places, Curated by Pieter Vermeulen, Extracity, Antwerp, Belgium
Norfolk, Thierry-Goldberg gallery, New York, NYC
Experimental, Curated by Yair Vardi, Tmuna theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel
Nine People Monkeys, Curated by Liz Hagag, Allenby Passage, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Heading For A Fall: The Art Of Entropy, curated by Tim Goossens, Ford Project, NYC
Involuntary, Curated by Neville Wakefield, Ford Project, NYC
2010 New Panorama, Pianissimo gallery, Milan, Italy
Greater New York, curated by klaus Biesenbach, Connie Butler, Neville Wakefield, Moma/P.S.1, NYC
The Young Israelis, Curated by Lilly Wei, Leslley Heller Workspace, NYC
Sweat, Columbia University, Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NYC
JaffaCakes TLV, curated by Yasmine Datnow, Maïa Morgensztern, Lara Wolfe, Rove gallery, London.
Never Can Say Goodbye (No Longer empty), curated by Manon Slome, Steven Evans, Asher Remy-Toledo, Former tower Records, NYC
A-genre, curated by Yair and Hila Vardi, Tmuna theatre, Tel-Aviv,Israel
2009 History of Violence, curated by Hadas Maor, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Dark Rooms/Homme Made, curated by Avi Feldman, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, NYC
Now Silence, Gallery 39, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Become a Member, Spaceship Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel2008 A New Way of Seeing ,Städtische galerie, Bremen, Germany
2008 The Bucharest Biennale for Young Artists, curated by Ami Barak, Romania
Art Focus, curated by Ami Barak and Bernard Blistene, Jerusalem, Israel
Volume(s), curated by Marc Clement and Kevin Muhlen, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2007 Untitled, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Passing the Batonette, Haifa Museum, Israel
2006 Artik 8, The University gallery of Tel-Aviv, Israel
2005 3 Cities Against the Wall, ABC No Rio, New York
3 Cities Against the Wall, ABC No Rio, Al Hallaj gallery, Ramallah
3 Cities Against the Wall, ABC No Rio, Artist House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
League, Hanger 26, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2005, Gordon gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Catalogues and Essays:
2018 Transition #4, text and interview with Ines Goldbach
2017 Feminin/alism by Kathy Battista
2013 showtime, Janet Cardiff, Naama Tsabar, Alona Rode by Hadas Maor
2010 Spaces of Containment, On Naama Tsabar's Works by Hadas Maor
Awards, Grants and Residencies:
2018 Artis grant recipient
2018 Outset grantee
2018 Mifal Hapais for the Arts grantee
2014 Artis grant recipient
2012 Grantee of The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award
2012 Fountainhead Residency, Miami
2010 Artis Grant Recipient
2009-2010 Joan Sovern Award, Columbia University, NYC
2008-2010 Artis Fellowship, Columbia University, NYC
2009-2010 America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2006-2005 America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2004 The Gordon Gallery Grant
2002-2005 The Israeli Ministry of Education Outstanding Achievement Award