Curriculum Vitae Esther Naor was born in 1961 in Israel. She graduated from the department of Civil Engineering at Haifa Technion Institute, Israel, and the department of Computer Sciences at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Following 12 years of a career in engineering and computers in the high-tech industry, she began art studies at the Midrasha Art School in Kfar Saba and at several artists' studios in Israel. Since the year 2001 she has been dedicating herself to art, working mainly in the mediums of sculpture, photography, and video. She lives and works in Savion, Israel. Selected exhibitions April 2013 Fragment, group show, A.I.R Gallery, New York March 2013 Women Creation, video art group show, 4th Epos International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv Museum of Art February 2013 Imagination, Group show for the Israel AIDS Task Force, Hapoalim Bank, Tel Aviv January 2013 Hamangalistim, group show, Hachava Gallery, Holon October 2012 Side Effects, solo show, Florentin 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv July 2012 Tempus Arti Triennial 2012, Belgium June 2012 Summer Exhibition, group show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Night of Festivals, international multi-media festival, Old Market Square, Nottingham, England May 2012 Fresh Paint 5, the Tel Aviv Art Fair Hidden Cities, group show, Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association, Istanbul, Turkey 2012 fashionSCAPES, the 7th Festival of Arts and Fashion (FAT), Toronto Director: Vanja Vasic 2012 Celebrating Kindred Spirits and Strange Bed Fellows, group show, A.I.R Gallery, New York Curator: Catherine J. Morris 2012 Hidden & Forbidden Identities, group show, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice Curators: Luca Curci, Elis Saint Juste 2011 You Are All Red, and So Very White, installation/solo show, Florentin 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv 2011 A Season in Paradise, group show, Florentin 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Irena Gordon 2011 Video projections weekend, Centro Labicano Arte Contemporanea (CLAC), Rome 2011 Infinite Spaces (part two), group show, Sguardi Sonori festival of multi-media and time-based art, Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, Italy Curators: Carlo Fatigoni, Sandro Cecchi 2011 Inter/National Members Exhibition, group show, A.I.R Gallery, New York Curator: Susanne Altmann 2010 Infinite Spaces (part one), group show, Sguardi Sonori festival of multi-media and time-based art, Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome Curators: Carlo Fatigoni, Sandro Cecchi 2010 Solo show, Berliner Liste Art Fair, Berlin 2010 Open Portfolio, salon and group exhibition, Chelsea Museum, New York Curator: Elga Wimmer 2010 Houses in the Boulevard, open-air group exhibition, Rothschild Avenue, Tel Aviv, Israel Curator: Ilan Wizgan 2010 Reawakening, group exhibition, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York 2009 Tempus Arti 2009, Landen, Linter and Zoutleeuw, Belgium Curators: Dirk Lambrechts and Tim Cleuren. Artistic Advisor: Jan Hoet 2009 15th Biennial of Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal Curators: Fátima Lambert (Portugal), Paulo Reis (Brésil) and Orlando Brito- Ginório (Spain). 2009 Contemporary Expressions, international photography group exhibition, Pen & Brush Gallery, New York Curator: Daile Kaplan 2009 The 8th A.I.R. Gallery Biennial, New York, USA Curator: Lilly Wei 2008 International photography exhibition on the theme of "Violence against Women", Queen Sofía Center, Valencia, Spain 2008 Home, installation, Rothschild Avenue, Tel Aviv, Israel . 2007 Bread and Roses (Group Show), Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Curator: Nir Nader 2007 Mask – Identity (Group Show), Gebo gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Curator: Nurit Tenne 2006 Urban Tales, time based installations on Rothschild Ave., Tel Aviv, Israel Curator: Ilan Wizgan 2005 100 Artists for A Museum (Group Show), Casoria Museum of Contemporary Art, Casoria, Italy Curator: Antonio Manfredi 2005 Unclaimed Luggage (Group Show), Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain Curators: Klitsa Antoniou, Panayiotis Michael, Melita Couta 2004 OPENASIA (Group Show), Venice Lido, Italy Curator: Chang Tsong-zung 2004 Nomadifesta / Pack Your Suitcase (Group Show), Nicosia, Cyprus Curators: Klitsa Antoniou, Panayiotis Michael, Melita Couta Luce Irigaray based her feminist theory on the corporeal body and on its sexual specificity as consciousness and as an entity, both of which go beyond cultural discourse. Esther Naor relates to Irigaray's philosophy and at the same time expresses the manner in which she experiences her body as a woman and as an artist. Her work deals with the duality of control and the loss of it, with the beautiful and the abject, with the logo-centric white and the spreading passionate red, with the pure and the blemished and the inherent tensions between them. The duality presented by the work is both a trap and an introduction to another repressed and ambiguous world, centered around threat and fear, sexuality and eroticism. In Naor's work, expressiveness meets the limitations of clean aesthetics to create a space in which everything is turned from the inside to the outside. The resultant effect evokes an experience of the suppressed, of the “Other” - an “Other” in a continuous search for her own voice.