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MICHAEL HALAK MICHAEL HALAK

MICHAEL HALAK, Palestine (1975)

Bio

Michael Halak was born in 1975 in Fassuta village, Palestine. The contemporary artist pursued his bachelor degree in Fine Arts from Haifa University in 2002. In 2005, he got selected for a...

Michael Halak was born in 1975 in Fassuta village, Palestine. The contemporary artist pursued his bachelor degree in Fine Arts from Haifa University in 2002. In 2005, he got selected for a residential scholarship in Florence Academy of Art in Italy, followed by a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Haifa University in 2009.

Halak’s artistic motion emerges from the western tradition of the realist-illusory movement and stands in between hyperrealism and conceptualism. His signally realistic style expresses the systematic yet absurd reality between man and place, and other objective themes. The artist’s illusionary paintings emerge from observation and examination of real life events, accompanied with an artistic twist, that conceptualizes a certain disturbing and damaged form of reality.

Michael has received several awards including the Ministry of Culture and Sports for contemporary artists, and the ‘Rappaport’ prize for a young painter amongst many other awards.  

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CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021

God Cares For The Little Things, Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery, Haifa, Occupied Palestine

2018

Motion Trap, Idris Art Space Gallery, Tel Aviv, Occupied Palestine

2017

Memories from The Future, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Occupied Palestine

2014

Cracks, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Occupied Palestine

2013

Territory, Oranim Collage Gallery, Oranim, Occupied Palestine

2012

Faces and Landscapes, Tel-Aviv Museum, Occupied Palestine

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Hope in an Age of Dystopia, Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

2023

Who by Fire: On Israel, Haus am Lützowplatz, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany

2022

Samah Shihadi and Michael Halak During Art Basel, Tabari Art Space, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2021

Terra (Un)firma, Tabari Art Space, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

2019

Milk Flow, Biet Hankin Gallery, Kfar Yehoshua, Occupied Palestine
Visions of Place, Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh, New York City, United States of America
Belonging, Dubai Design District, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 
Limitless, The Gallery at The Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem, Palestine
The True Artist, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Occupied Palestine

2018

What is Pyramida Doing Here?, Pyramida Art Gallery, Haifa, Occupied Palestine
1948, Haifa City’s Museum, Haifa, Occupied Palestine
House Houses, The Gallery at the Walled off Hotel, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine

2017

Self collecting, Beit Hagefen Art Gallery, Haifa, Occupied Palestine
Third Identity, Contemporary Art Platform (CAP), Kuwait City, Kuwait
Ingathering, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Occupied Palestine

2016

Roots of Identity, Art on 56thGallery, Beirut, Lebanon
The Winners 2015, Herzelya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzelya, Occupied Palestine
Palestinian Art, B.O.P Art Gallery, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine
Drawings, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Occupied Palestine

2015

Profile Is Aggression, Too, Minus 1 Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Occupied Palestine
The Museum Presents itself 2, Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Occupied Palestine
The Palestinian Arab House (Haifa 1860-1930), Haifa City Museum, Haifa, Occupied Palestine
Visions of Place, Stedman Art Gallery, New Jersey, United States of America
SummerSet, Noga Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Occupied Palestine

2014

Portraits, Shenkar Gallery, Ramat Gan, Occupied Palestine
Wonderland, Espace Oscar Niemeyer, Paris, France 
Wisdom of Crowds, Beit Hagefen Gallery, Haifa, Occupied Palestine

2013

Realytizm, Grand Art Gallery, Haifa, Occupied Palestine
Wonderland, The German Bundestag, Berlin, Germany

2012

Spring 2012, Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA), New Jersey, United States of America
48-67, The House of Culture & Arts Gallery, Nazareth, Occupied Palestine

2011

Certified Copy, Beit Hgefen Gallery, Haifa, Occupied Palestine
The Armory Show, New York City, United States of America
Winners of 2010, Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat Gan, Occupied Palestine

2010

July, Noga Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Occupied Palestine
Window to reality, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Occupied Palestine
Dream a reality, Pyramid Gallery, Haifa, Occupied Palestine

2009

Men in the sun, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary art, Occupied Palestine
MFA Exhibition, The Dr. Hecht Art Center, Haifa University, Haifa, Occupied Palestine

2007

Portrait, Beit Hagefen, Haifa, Occupied Palestine

2006

A Different World, Sawa Gallery, Shfaraam, Occupied Palestine

2005

Alumni Exhibition, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy

2002

Alumni Exhibition, Haifa University, Haifa, Occupied Palestine

Awards and Honors

2016

Artist Directed Grant by Mrs. And Mr. Rosenblatt, United States of America

2011

The Rapports Award for Young Israeli Artist at Tel- Aviv Museum

2010

The Young Artist Award by Ministry of Culture and Sports

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Collection of the Rappaport family, Switzerland
Ari & Anne Rosenblatt Collection, Los Angeles, United States of America
Collection of Jerry and Daphne Jacowitz, New Jersey, United States of America
Bank of Palestine Collection, Palestine

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Documents
Noga Gallery גלריה נגא _ Memories from the Future.pdf
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Noga Gallery גלריה נגא _ Cracks.pdf
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MICHAEL HALAK Artwork

Flea Market Haifa

MICHAEL HALAK, Palestine, 2019
140 x 190 cm

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