Shai Kremer's transfixing large-scale color photographs explore contested territory throughout Israel. In this region, conflict has left an indelible imprint on the land and on the psyche of its inhabitants. Kremer's work warns against vestiges of warfare becoming a permanent fixture in people's lives and challenges the viewer to consider the long-term effects of perpetual violence within a society.
Kremer was born in Israel and now divides his time between Tel Aviv and New York. His first monograph Infected Landscape: Israel, Broken Promised Land, was released by Dewi Lewis Publishing. Among the many honors he has received are the Israel Pais Grant for Art and Culture, and a First Prize in Landscape in the Edut Mekomit (Local Testimony) competition, exhibited in conjunction with World Press Photo. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions world wide, including Reality Check at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2008, the 2007 Guangzhou Photo Biennale in Canton, China; Loaded Landscape at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL in 2007, Engagement-Contemporary Photography at the Israel Art Museum in Jerusalem in 2007, and Disengagement at the Contemporary Art Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2006.
Kremer's photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New York; Israel Art Museum, Jerusalem; Contemporary Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, among others.
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