MICHAL ROVNER - Shoshana Wayne Gallery

MICHAL ROVNER
EDUCATION
1981-85 Bezalel Academy of Art, B.F.A.
1979-81 Tel Aviv University, Cinema/Television and Philosophy, B.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Musée du Louvre, Paris, FR
2009 “Frequency”, Ivorypress Art + Books, Madrid, Spain
“Particles of Reality”, DHC/Art Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal,
Canada
Border, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2008 Michal Rovner: Video, Sculpture, Installation, Heckscher Museum of Art
Adama, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, CA
Makom II, Pace Wildenstein, NY
2007 Galerie Haas & Fuchs - Berlin, Berlin
Beyond Limits: Sotheby’s at Chatsworth A Private Sale Offering, Chatsworth,
Derbyshire
Free Summer Movie Festival, Pace Wildenstein, NY
2006 Fields, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Fields of Fire, Pace Wildenstein, NY
Weave, Chanel, Hong Kong
2005 Living Landscape, Opening of a permanent 12-meter high video wall at Yad
Vashem’s new museum complex, Jerusalem.
Fields, Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, Pace Wildenstein, NY
2004 In Stone, Pace Wildenstein, New York
LVMH headquarters, Paris
2003 Coexistence, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome. Italy

MACRO Future, Rome
Against Order? Against Disorder? Venice Biennale, 50 th International Art
Exhibition, Israeli Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale
2002 The Space Between, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2001 Michal Rovner: Works, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Michal Rovner: New Work, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Field 1, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, NC
2000 Overhang, Deitch Projects, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY, Nighttime
outdoor installation projected through 17 windows to the street.
Between, New Gallery, Houston, TX
Michal Rovner: New Works, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Overhanging, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, September - October. New Wing
Ground Floor. Approximately 500 sq. meters/ 5382 sq. feet video installation.
Day indoor version two walls facing each other projected on 18 windows to
create one situation. Nighttime outdoor version projected through 9 windows
to the street, approximately 40 meters long/ 131 feet.
1998 Michal Rovner: Selected Works, 1991-1998, The Schmidt Center Gallery,
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Michal Rovner: Recent Works, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Michal Rovner: Recall Seeing, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
Border, New Gallery, Houston
1997 Michal Rovner: Photographic Works, Pace Wildenstein MacGill, New York, NY
Mutual Interest (Video installation); Border (Screening), Stedelijk Museum,
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
Merging (Mural prints); Mutual Interest (Video installation) Tate Gallery, London
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Fracisco, CA
1996 Michal Rovner: Works, 1991-1995, The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY
1995 Michal Rovner: New Work, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
1994 Michal Rovner: One Person Game Against Nature, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
New Gallery, Houston, TX
Laura Carpenter Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1993 The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1992 Decoy: Michal Rovner, Photographs of the Gulf War, The Ansel Adams Center for
Photography, San Fracisco, CA
Michal Rovner: Outside 1990 and Outside 1991, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
Prague House of Photography, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Michal Rovner: Outside 1990 and Outside 1991, Betsey Rosenfeld Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1991 Michal Rovner: Decoy, Grant Gallery, Denver, CO Le Mois de la Photo a
Montreal, La Maison Culture Mercier, Montreal, Canada
Decoy, S.Bitter-Larkin Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Outside, The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Brent Sikkema Fine Art, New York, NY
1988 Silver Bullet Gallery, Providence, RI
1987 Michal Hammer: Photographic Works, Dizengof Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Mirages, Intramoenia Extra Art, Castles in the Land of Brindisi and Taranto,
Puglia, Italy
Where in the World?, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Das im Entschwinden Erfasste – Videokunst im Museum Folkwang - Museum
Folkwang Essen, Essen
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place - Projectspace 176, London (England)
2009 Barock, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Rome
Incidental Affairs, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
The Missing Peace, Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Frost Art Museum, Miami,
FL
Open - ZOYA Museum, Modra
Hugging and Wrestling: Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video - MOCA -
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Videnie - Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm
NatureNation - Museum on the Seam, Jerusale

2008 International Triennial of Contemporary Art in Prague 2008, National Gallery in
Prague, Czech Republic
2007 Spots of Light: To Be a Woman in the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, The Holocaust
Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem
Going Staying, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Makom I, a monumental sculpture/ structure, 40 ton collage of stones from
dismantled
Israeli and Palestinian Houses, Beyond Limits, Chatsworth House, Sotheby’s
sculpture exhibition, Derbyshire, England
Turbulence, 3 rd Auckland Triennial, New Zealand
Offering Reconciliation, Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts, March
22–April 1, 2007. Traveled to: The World Bank, Washington, D. C., April 30–
May 6, 2007; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, June 7–August 19,
2007; United Nations, New York, September 1–28, 2007; Pomegranate Gallery,
New York, NY, October 4–8, 2007; Sculpture Objects & Functional Art, Chicago,
IL, November 2–4, 2007.
Timer 01: Intimità/Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Fondazione Triennale di Milano,
Milan, Italy
Light Time and Three Dimensions, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25 th Street, New
York, NY
Architecture of the Night- Luminous Buildings, Netherlands Architecture
Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2006-2008
2006–2007
Word Into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London,
United Kingdom, May 18–September 3, 2006. Traveled to: Dubai Holding,
Dubai International Finance Centre, United Arab Emirates, February 6–April 30,
2008. (Catalogue)
L’Homme Paysage, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, France, October 14, 2006–
January 14, 2007.
2006 Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Approaching Reality’s Borders: Art, Science and Technology, ARCOS Museo
d'Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Palazzo del Governo Via Stefano Borgia, Italy,
May 13–September 10, 2006.
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, UCLA Fowler Museum of
Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA, June 11–September 10, 2006.
Allegories of Displacement, Westport Arts Center, Connecticut
18: Beckett, Blackwood Gallery/University of Toronto at Mississauga,
Mississauga, Canada. Traveled to: Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre,
Banff, Canada

Swarm, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (Catalogue)
2005 The Dialectics of Hope, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2004 Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
2002 Texas in New York, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Sizzle, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
2001 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Cultural Crossing, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
46th Annual Biennial: Mixed Metaphor, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Exposure: Recent Acquisitions, The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv
Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
One Man’s Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection, Herbert F.
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Looking Ahead: Visions of Israel, Applied Materials, Applied Global University,
Santa Clara, CA; travels to the San Jose Insitute of Contemporar Art, San Jose,
CA
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish
Museum, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; travels to the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Animal. Anima. Animus, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Lie of the Land: Earth, Body, Material, Arnolfini, Bristol, England
1999 Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form, Whitney Museum of American Art
at Champion, CT
Animal.Anima.Animus, P.S. 1, New York, NY
Apposite Opposites, Museum of Contempory Art, Chicago, IL
Borderline Figuration: Digital Art Forms, Museo National del Banco Central del
Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador; travels to Museo Antropologico del Banco Central,
Guayaquil
Landscapes of Israel, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Mediating Site/Mediated Vision, UCR/California Museum of Photography,
Riverside, CA
Lie of the Land: Earth, Body, Material, John Hansard Gallery, University of
Southampton, Highfield, England
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish
Museum, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1998 Light on the New Millennium - Wind from Extreme Orient, Pusan Metropolitan
Museum, Pusan, Korea
Borderline Figuration: Digital Art Forms, Pan American Cultural Exchange,
Houston, TX; travels to Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Sucre, Mexico
Contemporary Israeli Art: Three Generations, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv,

Israel; travels to the National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens,
Greece
Hindsight: Recent Work from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
Animal. Anima. Animus, Poori Art Museum, Poori, Finland; travels to Museum
voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holland
Back to Back, De Chiara/Stewart, New York, NY
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
1997 A Delicate Balance: Six Israeli Photographers, St. John’s Museum of Art,
Wilmington, NC; travels to The Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina
University, Greenville, NC; The Ashville Art Museum, Ashville, NC
De la minceur de l’image/The Tenuous Image, Dazibao, Centre de
photographies acteulles, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975 Now, Bernard Toale Gallery,
Boston, MA
Another Language, Hafia Museum of Modern Art, Israel
The Thom Conjecture: Michal Rovner, Fran Siegal, Sharon Horvath, Moshe
Gershuni, New Gallery, Houston
1996 Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975 - Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, New
York, NY
A Delicate Balance: Six Israeli Photographers, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
From the Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Photography, The Corcoran Museum
of Art, Washington, D.C.
Desert, John Hansard Gallery, The University of Southampton, England
The House Transformed, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
1995 Displacements: Aspects of Change in the Late Twentieth Century, Montage
Gallery, Derby Photography Festival, Derby, England
Beyond the Looking Glass: Contemporary Women Photographers, David
Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Photographic Condition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
CA
Mediated Images: Burt Barr, Peter Campus, Bruce Nauman, Michal Rovner,
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY
Moholy-Nagy and Present Company, The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus, Yad-Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel
1994 New Photography 10: Shimon Attie, Abelardo Morell, Jorge Ribalta, Michal
Rovner, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Contemporary Women Photographers, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Little House on the Prairie, Marc Jancou Gallery, London, England
Art Focus, Binet Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
House Sweet House, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

Uta Barth, Christopher Bucklow, JanHenle, Michal Rovner: Photography,
Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
1993 In-Camera, The Santa Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Image First: Eight Photographers for the ‘90s, Laura Carpenter Fine Arts, Santa
Fe, NM
On Paper, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Collection Plus: The Range of Realism, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Locus: Contemporary Art from Israel, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA
Collecting from the Twenty-first Century: Recent Acquisitions and Promised
Gifts, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1992 Breakdown, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Postscripts: “End,” Representations in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Genia
Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Fotofest 1992, New Gallery, Houston, TX
1991 Grant Winners: American Israeli Culture Fund, Haifa Museum of Modern Art,
Haifa, Isarel
Recent Acquisitions, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, IsraeL
The Presence of the Absent: The Empty Chair in Israeli Art, The Genia Schreiber,
University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1990 Act-Up, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Grant Winners, American Israeli Culture Fund, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Museum as Collector: Selected Acquisitions 1979-1989, Tel Aviv Museum,
TelAviv, Israel
Fotofest 1990, New Gallery, Houston, TX
1989 Memory Channels: Imagined and Reimagined Images, Camera Obscura
Gallery, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Beyond the Frame: Five Photographers, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
1988 Sky Line: Israeli Photographers Contemplate the Landscape, Tel Aviv Museum,
Tel Aviv, Israel
Gallery at Beit Ariela Library, Tel Aviv, Israel
1987 The Animal Show, Photocollect Gallery, New York, NY
1986 The Photography Biennial, Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod,
Israel

1985 The First Line, Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1980 Sof Hasdera Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
SCREENINGS (Film: Notes, 10 min., 37 sec.)
2001 Lincoln Center Festival, New York, NY, as part of Shorts
Philip on Film, Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA
SCREENINGS (Film: Field 1, 14 min.)
2001 Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
2000 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY
SCREENINGS (Film: Border, 48 min.)
2001 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2000 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1998 MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
1997Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate Gallery, London, England
PUBLICATIONS
2001 MICHAL ROVNER: WORKS, brochure, Published by Kemper Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2000 EXPOSURE: RECENT ACQUISITIONS, THE DORON SEBBAG ART
COLLECTION, Mordechai Omer, Jeffrey Deitch, Aya Lurie, Tel Aviv Museum
of Art

A THOUSAND HOUNDS, Raymond Merritt and Miles Barth, Taschen: Koln,
Germany
TERRA INFIRMA: GEOGRAPHY’S VISUAL CULTURE, Irit Rogoff, Routledge Press,
London and New York
ONE MAN’S EYE: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ALAN SIEGEL COLLECTION,
Exhibition Catalogue, Contributions by: Robert Sobieszek and Alan Siegel,
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1999 BORDERLINE FIGURATION DIGITAL ART FORMS, Exhibition Catalogue,
Ecuador
1998 ANIMAL. ANIMA. ANIMUS., Exhibition Catalogue, Edited by Marketta Seppälä,
Jari-Pekka Vanhala, and Linda Weintraub, Pori Art Museum, Finland
LIGHT ON THE NEW MILLENNIUM - WIND FROM EXTREME ORIENT,
Exhibition Catalogue: ‘98 International Exhibition of Contemporary Art,
Metropolitan Museum, Pusan, Korea
CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI ART: THREE GENERATIONS, Exhibition
Catalogue: 50th Anniversary of the State of Israel, Curator: Prof. Mordechai
Omer, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
MICHAL ROVNER: SELECTED WORKS, 1991-1998, brochure, Published by the
Scmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
DEATH DRIVE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND PSYCHOANALYSIS, Published by Tate
Gallery, London
1997 De la MINCEUR de L’IMAGE / THE TENUOUS IMAGE, Exhibition catalogue,
Published by Daziabo, Montréal, Québec. Essays by Nicole Gingras, Georges
Didi-Huberman, Rober Racine, and Ellie Epp
MICHAL ROVNER, brochure, Published by Tate Gallery, London
VIDEO PREMIERE: BORDER, Published by Museum of Modern Art Department of
Film and Video, New York, NY
1996 DESERT, Exhibition catalogue, Published by John Hansard Gallery,University
Southampton, England
A DELICATE BALANCE: SIX ISRAELI PHOTOGRAPHERS, Exhibition
catalogue, Published by The Light Factory
INSIDE THE SURFACE: THE ART OF MICHAL ROVNER, Published by the
Bohen Foundation, New York, NY
MICHAL ROVNER: WORKS, 1991-1996, brochure, Published by the Bohen
Foundation, New York, NY
NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 10, Published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1995 THE MYTH OF DAEDALUS AND ICARUS, Exhibition Catalogue, Yad Labanim
Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel
1994 MICHAL ROVNER: ONE PERSON GAME AGAINST NATURE, Exhibition

catalogue, Published by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1993 LOCUS: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM ISRAEL, Exhibition catalogue, Published by
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
MICHAL ROVNER, Exhibition Catalogue, Published by the Chicago Art Institute,
Essays by Steven Henry Madoff and Sylvia Wolf
1992 OUTSIDE, MICHAL ROVNER, WORKS, 1987-1990, Exhibition Catalogue,
Published by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1991 LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO A MONTREAL, Exhibition Catalogue
BREAKDOWN, Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Rose Art Museum
DECOY, Exhibition Catalogue, Published by S. Bitter-Larkin Gallery, New York,
NY
1990 ANI-MAL, Selection of the Artist’s work, Produced by Walter Keller, Parkett/Der
Alltag, Zurich
ONE HOUR-C’EST VRAI, Script Written by Robert Frank and Michal Rovner
THE EMPTY CHAIR, Exhibition Catalogue
FOTOFEST 90, Exhibition Catalogue
BEYOND THE FRAME, Exhibition Catalogue
SKY LINE, Exhibition Catalogue
1986 THE ISRAELI BIENNIAL, Photography Anthology
MEETINGS, Children’s Book Illustrated with Works by Selected Artists
1995 THE FIRST LINE, Exhibition Catalogue
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Globes Newspaper, May 17-18, 2010
2009 Barak, Noa, “Michal Rovner: Piedras de guego (Michal Rovner: Fire Stones),”
ARS Magazine, October—December 2009
2008 Genocchio, Benjamin, “Works of Stone with Moving Images”, New York Times,
August
Goldman, Edward “Profound? Yes. Sacred? No.”, KCRW 89.9FM Art Talk,
April 29, 4:44 pm – 4:48 pm
2004 Kino, Carol, “A Fake Museum of Shimmying Antiques”,
The New York Times, May 16, p. 32
Richard, Frances, ArtForum, September 2004 p.268-269
2003 Vincent, Steven, Art & Auction, October
Kimmelman, Michael, “Cramming it All In: A Bigger Biennale”, The New

York Times, June 26, 2003, B1
Rush, Michael, “Vindicated at Venice,” Artnet.com
Exhibition Reviews, Art in America, March 2003, p.114
2002 “An Exhibition to Come for Michal Rovner at the Whitney Museum, New York,”
Ma’ariv, July 17
“Behind the Veil,” tema celeste, July/August
“Inspirations”
“Michal Rovner,” Village Voice, July 16
“Michal Rovner,” Time Out (New York), July 11-18
“Michal Rovner,” New Art Examiner, March-April
“Michal Rovner: The Space Between,” Time Out (New York), August 1-8
“Night After Night,” Ma’ariv, July 17
“People As Notes,” Ha’aretz, July 31
“The Surreal World,” Elle, August
“They Shoot, Glass Scores,” The Los Angeles Times, July 27
“Universal Appeal,” Jewish Week, July 5
“Where Visas are not Needed,” The Washington Post, April 11
Budick, Ariella, “Shifting, Ageless Images In a Search for ‘Home’”, Newsday
(New York City), August 2
Kissel, Howard, “Blurred Vision,” Daily News, July 14
2001 “Michal Rovner: Art Crossing Boundaries,” Jewish Woman, Fall
2000 “The Biennial’s Grand Illusions,” The Washington Post, December 10.
J.V., “Rovner at Deitch”, Flash Art, May-June, pg. 56
Leffingwell, Edward, “Michal Rovner at 410 Park Avenue,” Art in America,
November.
Nahas, Dominique, “Overhang: Michal Rovner at the Whitney Biennial,” dART
International, Fall, p. 31-32.
Nessel, Jen, “Ghostly Visions,” ArtNews, Summer.
“Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1999 - 2000,” The Metropolitan Museum of
Art Bulletin, Fall.
Rush, Michael, “New Media Rampant”, Art in America, June
Vogel, Carol, “Chase’s Art Plans,” New York Times, April 14
1999 Van de Velde, Paola, “Mystieke installatie in Amsterdam: Michal Rovner
blikvanger op 17 de Video Festival,” de Telegraf (Amsterdam)
1998 Coleman, Sarah, “Art; Museums & Galleries: ‘50/Fifty’ Through July 26 Jewish
Museum,” The San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 27-June 2.
Dykstra, Jean, “Michal Rovner at Stephen Friedman,” Art & Auction,
September/October.
Genova, Arianna, “L’arte Spericolata,” Il Manifesto (Rome), March.
“Michal Rovner,” Palm Beach Jewish Time, October
“Portfolio,” Creative Camera 353, August/September.
“Rovner’s Photoworks Take a More Abstract Turn,” Chicago Tribune, November

Schmidt, Steve, “Image Is Everything,” New Times (Broward/Palm Beach),
November
Van Proyen, Mark, “Michal Rovner at Stephen Wirtz Gallery,” The New Art
Examiner, March.
Weinstein, Michael, “Rhona Hoffman Gallery: Michal Rovner,” New City
(Chicago), November
1997 Aquin, Stephanie, “De la minceur de l’image: Taille fine,” Voir(Montreal),
August 15.
Coomer, Martin, “Michal Rovner,” Time Out (London), London, Art:
Museums, August 2-9.
Cote, Mario, “De la minceur de l’image,” Parachute, October-December.
Drohojowska Philip, Hunter, “From Dislocation, Artistic Direction,” Los Angeles
Times, Calendar section, June 15.
Kandel, Susan, “Art Reviews: Exploring Power of Three Among Friends,” Los
Angeles Times, Calendar section, July 4.
Lamarche, Bernard, “Dissolution de l’image,” La Devoir (Paris), May 24-25.
Lamarche, Bernard, “Le regard tel un fantome,” La Devoir (Paris), March 29-30.
Langlois, Monique, “Juste des images,” Cinebull.
Lofting, Claire, “Ambiguous Images: Reflections on Michal Rovner’s Border,”
Coil: Journal of the Moving Image (London), No. 5, Fall.
“Michal Rovner,” La Recherche Photographique (Paris), No. 20, Spring.
1996 Morrissey, Simon, “Derby Photography Festival: Michal Rovner,” Creative
Camera, December/January.
1995 Camper, Fred, “View Finders: Michal Rovner at Rhona Hoffman Gallery,”
Chicago Reader, September 29.
“Last Chance,” Chicago Tribune, October 27.
“Library without Books,” Jerusalem Post, September 1.
“Michal Rovner,” La Recherche Photographique (Paris), No. 19, Fall.
Riddel, Jennifer L., “Reviews: Michal Rovner at Rhona Hoffman Gallery,” New Art
Examiner, November.
1994 Armitage, Diane, “Michal Rovner: Photographs,” Magazine of the Arts, May.
Balsamo, Dean, “Gallery Hopping,” Pasatiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican, April
15.
Chadwick, Susan, “Photographers Exhibit Evokes Powerful Images of Isolation,”
Houston Post, November 26.
“Critical Reflections,” The Magazine, April.
Hagen, Charles, “Review: Group Show, Wooster Gardens,” New York Times,
January 28.
Johnson, Patricia C., “Images of Solitude,” Houston Chronicle, November 29.
Karmel, Pepe, ”Out of the Ghetto,” Art News, April.
Rosen, Roee, “Illuminating Eerie Images of Past and Present,” Forward, October
21.
Snodgrass, Susan, “Michal Rovner at the Art Institute of Chicago and Rhona

Hoffman,” Art in America, pp.124-125.
1993 Foerstner, Abigail,“Photography: Rovner Draws on the Commonplace to Create
the Surreal,” Chicago Tribune, November 12.
“Portfolio,” Creative Camera, No. 321, April/May.
Rerych, Zdenek, “The Real Way of Existence: Interview with Michal Rovner,”
Atelier Magazine, April.
1992 Freudman, Carla, “Michal Rovner,” Euro, February.
Grundberg, Andy, “‘Decoy’ Exhibition Preview,” Newsletter of the Friends of
Photography, January.
McCracken, David, “Gallery Scene,” Chicago Tribune, January 24.
Porges, Maria, “Michal Rovner at the Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams
Center,” Art Forum, April.
Watten, Barrett, “Michal Rovner,” Art Week, February.
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Cover, Studio, April/May.
Gray, Alice, “Decoy at S. Bitter-Larkin,” Art News, October.
La Recherche Photographique (Paris), December.
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Collector’s Newsletter, July/August.
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1990 “Portfolio,” Creative Camera, No. 305, July/August.
Cover, Creative Camera, No. 304, June/July.
1986 Review of Israeli Biennial, Perspektief (Rotterdam).
SPECIAL PROJECTS
1996 Dilemmas: The Good Fence, Israel-Lebanon border. Site-specific project
(approximately 137’) of forty-four flags hung above the electric fence along the
border during an extensive fire-exchange situation. Each flag has an X-shaped
figure printed on both sides.
Edge-Tower, Israel-Lebanon border. Installation consisting of two (3.5 x 197’
each) banners, printed with anonymous figures on semi-transparent plastic
mesh material. The banners were stretched from the guard tower in opposite
directions across the territorial boundary.
1995 TEL (Hill),. The Colonnade House, Tel Aviv. Mural (27 x 147’) commissioned to
mark the restoration of this historic building.
Co-Existenc 1, Mitzpe Ramon, Negev Desert, Israel. Mural (13 x 64’) hung on

the edge of the Ramon Crater, as part of the International Artists Museum’s
Construction in Process V: Co:Existence
1990 One Hour-C’est Vrai, Film script written by Robert Frank and Michal Rovner for a
one hour experimental film by Robert Frank for French television.
1980 Co-Founder of the Camera Obscura School of Art, which has become a leading
institution since 1988 for photography and video-cinema in Israel. The school
also has a credit agreement with Pratt Institute and The School of the Visual
Arts, New York. Acting teacher and member of its management
GRANTS/AWARDS
1998 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship
1997 Tel Aviv Museum Award
Intercom, The International Communications Film and Video Competition,
Chicago awarded Border a certificate of merit in the category of Documentary-
Arts/Humanities.
1996 The Bohen Foundation production support for Border
1985 Israel Museum Jerard Levi Prize awarded to the Camera Obscura School of Art
for its contributions to the progress of photography in Israel.
LECTURES
2001 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1999 Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Princeton University, School of Architecture, NJ
1998 The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts and Humanities, Artist Panel,
Blurring the Lines
Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
1997 Stedelijk Museum, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
Tate Gallery, London, England
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1994 In-studio presentation for Fellows of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Fine Art Museum, Santa Fe
The Jewish Museum, New York
The Brooklyn Museum
The Paris Audiovisual (the collection of the city of Paris), Paris
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne
International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv
Polaroid Collection, Boston
Bohen Foundation, New York
Reader’s Digest Collection, New York
Agfa Collection
Lambert Art Collection, Geneva
Duma Lutie, Brussels
Musée des Beaux Arts, Calais, France