RESUME: LEZLI RUBIN-KUNDA
Education
1976 - B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
1984 - Studio Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 - M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts), School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
Current Teaching Position
from 2000 - Senior Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Technion University, Haifa, Israel (basic and advanced multi-disciplinary courses, drawing, environmental art)
Performances / Action-based projects, installations and exhibitions
2012 - "Reading and Marking”, performance for spoken word and drawing, artist’s studio,
Ramat Hasharon, Israel
“Plants, Books, Walls”, Interactive performance, Bilu Blich studio, Tel Aviv, book launch event
2011 - "Marking Space", Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
(performance/installation for drawing and sound, collaboration with Ellen Moffat)
2010 - "Wall of Perpetual Drawing", performance/ drawing installation , Rashamim, 4th Bienale
of Drawing, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
"Realms of Knowing", CWSE/OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2009 - "Disappearing", drawing-based action for Spectacoli di Mistero festival, Venice, Italy
"Reading into the Landscape Site performance, for What is Hidden Behind the Pastoral, Mamuta Art and Media Center, Jerusalem, Israel
2008 - "Marking Stones", site project, performance and installation, Binaural Artists Residency,
Nodar, Portugal
"Outside In", performance, video installation, Fleishman Gallery, with 7a11d International
Performance Festival, Toronto, Canada
"The Consolation of Philosophy", for Reading Material: Artists Books,
Municipal Gallery of Art, Rishon Letsion, Israel
"360 Degrees: Three Drawing Actions", for Night Trains (Salon D'Automne III),
Tel-Aviv, Yafo, Israel (performance)
"Erased Monuments", for Rapoport Studio performance event, Ramat Gan, Israel
"Drawing in an Empty Room", Gallery Nachshon, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
(performance, installation)
2007 - "Topographical Readings", for V.I.P. performance event, Ticho House, Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel (performance)
"Walk wih Mask", Streamers and Sardine Cans, for Grand Churrasco - Performance Festival,
Lisbon, Portugal (performance)
2006 - "Sisters at Work", for Collision06: Inter-arts Symposium, University of Victoria,
Victoria, Canada (performance, collaborative action, screenings)
"Walk with Donkey", for Live Art Festival, Kibbutz Naan, Israel (performance)
2005 - "Branching II" for Woman-Tree, Espais Foundation of Contemporary Art, Girona, Spain
(performance, video)
"Branching I", for Marking Motion The Lab, San Francisco, California, with Sheila Ghidini
(collaboration for tape and live performer)
2004 - "Reforestation" for Homesick: Salon D’Automne II, (Herzl 29), Tel Aviv, Israel
(performance, installation)
"Roadside Offerings" for HEARA 7, Ohel Moshe Neighborhood Center, Jerusalem, Israel
(performance)
"Metamorphosis" for Private Garden, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel (performance, installation)
"Collaborative Activity", Committing Voice Conference, Goddard College, Vermont
(performance, collaborative action, screenings)
2003 - "Down to Earth" for EBENT '03 International Performance Festival, Barcelona, Spain
(performance)
"10 Mandalas", Walking Mandala, for Circle with a Centre Boreal Art/Nature Centre
(performance, installation)
"Collaborative Activity", Committing Voice Conference, Goddard College
(performance, collaborative action, screenings)
"Intimate Investigations", Contemporary Ritual Performance series, The Western Front,
Vancouver, Canada, and LIVE Biennale of Performance Art, Vancouver, Canada
(performance, installation, screening)
2002 - "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" for HEARA 4, Underground Prisoners’ Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel (performance)
"City Shelter", Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (performance, installation)
"Walk to the Sea", FIX02 Catalyst Arts Performance Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
for Day of Simultaneous Action Tel Aviv / Belfast (performance)
2001 - "Nightshift" for Blurrr:3rd Biennale of Performance Art, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
(performance)
"Branching I" Prima Cogna, Works Gallery, San Jose, California, with Sheila Ghidini
(performance, installation)
2000 - "Local Activity", Gallery OneOneOne, School of Art, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Canada (performance, installation)
"18 Short Ceremonies for a Building of Emptied Rooms" for Memory and Vision,
Israeli-German Artists’ Exchange, Gross Glienicke Military Grounds, Potsdam, Germany
(performance, installation)
1999 - "Volume: compressed + expanded", Grove Street Windows, San Francisco Art Commission,
San Francisco, California, with Sheila Ghidini (performance, installation)
1998 - "Angelmaking and Barricades" for Angels and Aliens, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco
Art Institute, San Francisco, California (performance, installation)
Video and performance screenings
The performance videos have been screened at many performance and inter-media events including: Insider/Outsider, The Present Tense, Lincloln Arts Centre, Waltham, Mass.; Line Made by Walking, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel; Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment (SPANE), Toronto, Canada; Nodar: Inscribed Territory, Viseu, Portugal, The Third Ear Screening Rooms, Tel Aviv, Israel; Epipiderme, Lisbon, Portugal; Existin08, Brisbane, Australia; Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Mobile Archive (Israeli Center for Digital Art). Kunstverein, Hamburg, and Holon, Israel; PI Performance and Inter-media, Szczecin-Swinoujscie, Poland; Inport Media Festival, Estonia; Collision 06, Inter-arts Symposium, UVic, Victoria, B.C.; EBent /Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain; Live Art/Dead Art, Godine Gallery, Mass.College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts; 7a11d Festival of Performance Art, d2d (Direct to Documentation), Toronto, Canada; IMAF Performance in Nature, Performance Art Today and International Multimedia Festival, Odzaci, Serbia and Montenegro; Committing Voice Conference Goddard College, Vermont.
The work has also been presented at universities and art institutions, including: Tel Aviv University, Art History Dept.; Ontario College of Art and Design, Video and Performance Dept, Toronto, Canada: Fine Arts Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Art Department; Ryerson College, Toronto, Canada: Sapir College Art Department, Shderot, Israel: Architecture and City Planning Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel: Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden; The Interdisciplinary Centre, Jerusalem, and in Israel at public schools, through Cultural Initiative (Sal Tarbut) -Artists in the Schools program.
Projects / Residencies
2012-13 - "Artists' Place: Artistic Strategies for Connecting to Locale"; a research project,
on Canadian artists, through the Israeli Institute for Canadian Studies.
2012 - Walls I Have Known; An artist book of wall-related projects from the past 10 years
of performance. Includes text with curator Yael Kainey (see below)
2010-12 - Wall of Perpetual Drawing, an ongoing wall drawing project, artist’s studio,
Ramat Hasharon, Israel
2006-09 - Housekeeping; a series of actions in artist’s home and garden (video works)
2008 - Binaural Artists Residency, Nodar, Portugal
2006 - Housekeeping: ongoing series of performances for tape, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
From the Void (in the late hours of the night), project and exhibition at Alon Gallery with
art department students, Alon High School for the Arts, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
2005 - Walking Abandoned Walls; I-Park Artists Residency, East Haddam, Connecticut
2004 - Woman Enough, traveling exhibition-in-a-box, with Ami Steinetz Contemporary Art Projects,
Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 - Circle with a Centre, Artists Residency, Boreal Art / Nature Center, La Minerve, Quebec
2001 - Backyard with Olive Grove site-specific performance project and artist’s book, Savyon, Israel
Large Movements and Small Actions - performance project and book with Sheila Ghidini,
San Francisco / Tel Aviv, included in Mobilivre / Bookmobile, Canada Council traveling
exhibition of artists' books, USA/Canada 2005
Solo Exhibitions and Collaborations
2012 - Studio as Site, drawing installation, artist’s studio, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
2010 - Performing Books, Centre for Women's Studies, OISE (Ontario Institite of Studies in
Education), University of Toronto, Canada
2009 - Gray Matter: 4 artists collaborate, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv Israel
2008 - Reading Material, (4 artists), Municipal Gallery of Art, Rishon Letsion,
Israelunder-Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 - Backyard with Olive Grove, Beit Haomanim (Artists' House), Tel Aviv, Israel
Summer Studio, Passage Gallery, Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel
Elemental Acts, Deleon White Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 - Daily Interactions, DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Woman Enough Ein Harod Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod, Israel
2002 - City Shelter, Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (performance-based installation)
2001 - Prima Cogna, Works Gallery, San Jose, California, with Sheila Ghidini
2000 - Local Activity, Gallery OneOneOne, Winnipeg School of Art, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Canada (performance-based installation)
1999 - Volume: compressed + expanded I, CITY SITE, San Francisco Arts Commission,
San Francisco, California, (site installation) with Sheila Ghidini
1997 - A Temporary State of Grace, Arad Museum of Art, Arad, Israel
1996 - Transient Positions, New Art Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
Three Artists: Three Installations, Yavneh Artists' Workshop gallery, Yavneh, Israel
1993 - Impossibly Northern Continents, Yefet 28 Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
1991 - New Works, Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada
1989 - The Palm at the End of the Mind, Gallery Eleven, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
Coming Through Matter, Tjaden Hall Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1986 - Radiant Density, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1985 - Emerging from Chaos, University of Massachusetts Gallery, Worcester, Mass.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 - Three Environmental Artists (with Ruti Raviv, Ehud Schori), Open Gallery for Environmental
Art, Rishon Letzion, Israel
Art in Nature, Gongju National Museum, Yatoo Nature Art Group, Gongj, Korea
2010 - Lost, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Haifa, Israel- Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Pygmalion House, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2009 - Parallel Worlds, ScalaMata Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy
2007 - Nature in Mind, Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Biennale, Gongju National Museum, Korea
2006 - Wired Forest, Kirkland Art Centre, Seattle, Washington
A3 Israeli Drawing, Pyramid Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2005 - Woman-Tree, Fundacio Espais D'Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain
2004 - Homesick: Salon D’Automne II, (Herzl 29), Tel Aviv, Israel
Private Garden, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
2002 - Salon D’Automne I, (Herzl 29), Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 - Memory and Vision II, (Israeli-German Artists’ Exchange), The Artists’ Residence Gallery,
Herziliya, Israel
Hands, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2000 - Memory and Vision, Israeli-German Artists’ Exchange, Panzerhalle, Potsdam, Germany
1999 - Natural Selections, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 - Back Room Noise, Refusalon, San Francisco, California
Angels and Aliens, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, California
1995 - Posner Hosts Gimel, Posner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Drawing / Objects, Gallery Gimel, Jerusalem, Israel
1994 - Material World, Nachshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
1993 - Material: Sense and Essence, Yefet 28 Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
1987 - Drawing New England, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Mass.
New England Women Artists, North Hall Gallery, Mass. College of Art, Boston, Mass.
1986 - Works on Paper, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1985 - Eastern Influence, Wang Center Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1984 - Threads: Contemporary Drawings, Visual Language Workshop, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.
Dana Pond Competition Award Recipients, Museum School Gallery, Boston, Mass.
Articles in books / catalogues
2012 Yael Kainey: Dialogue in the Studio; in the book Walls I Have Known,
original in Hebrew; translation by L.Rubin-Kunda
2011 Charlotta Kolik, Marking Space, a Drawing Sound and Performance Project,
essay for Kentler Gallery publication
Dafna Yaacobus, Achbar Jerusalem, "Lost", artist profile (Wall Work at Barbur Gallery)
Luis and Rui Costa, Editors, Three Years in Nodar: Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural
Portugal, Nodar Edicions
2008 Dana Gillerman, Haaretz, `Galleria, Artist’s Wall Series
2007 Randy Rosenberg, Art in Action: Nature Creativity and Our Collective Future, Natural
World Museum, San Francisco, California
Nature in Mind, Nature Biennale, Gongiu National Museum, Korea
2006 - Marta Pol I Rigau, Dona-Arbre:Monique Bastiaans, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Mireya Maso,
Fina Miralles, Shirin Neshart, Lezli Rubin-Kunda, Espais Foundation of Contemporary Art,
Girona, Spain
2005 - Shinn Ben-Alon, Merav, Passage Installations 2004-2005, Tel Aviv, Israel
Shinn Ben-Alon, Merav, "Backyard with Olive Grove", Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 - Singh Victoria, Ritual in Contemporary Performance, anthology, Western Front,
Vancouver, Canada
2003 - Intimate Investigations, Front Magazine, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2001 - Katz-Frieman Tami, “Close to Home”, Daily Interactions, Tel Aviv, Israel
Eyland, Cliff, “Local Activity”, Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba, Canada
1999 - Barkai, Sigal “Studio Visit”, Terminal Magazine, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997 - Lavi Monica “A Temporary State of Grace”, Arad Museum, Arad, Israel
1996 - Bar-Natan Yifat “Transient Positions”, New Art Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
1993 - Bar-Lev Jennifer, “Impossibly Northern Continents”, Yefet 28 Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
