Yael Kanarek’s pieces focus on the territorial properties of languages on the internet and in the physical world. Word or phrases in multiple languages are arranged either in grids or organic forms.

Born 1967 Lives and works in New York City, USA.

Education:

2007 iEAR, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MFA
1993 Empire State College, SUNY, BFA

Grants, Commissions & Residencies:

2007 Eyebeam, Honorary Senior Fellowship
2005 Rockefeller Media Fellowship
2002 Jerome Foundation Media Arts Grant
2002 R&D Residency at Eyebeam
2002 Turbulence.org Net Art Commission
2002 SFMOMA Net Art Commission
2001 NYFA Computer Arts Fellowship
2000 Harvestworks Residency
2000 The Alternative Museum Digital Commission

Solo Exhibitions:

2009 Melancholia, Nelly Aman, Tel Aviv
2007 World of Awe, Chapter III: Object of Desire, The Jewish Museum, New York
2007 bitforms gallery, New York
2007 Nelly Aman, Tel Aviv
2005 Netizens II, at Sala Uno Gallery
2004 Code:Skin, Nelly Aman, Tel Aviv
2004 K-99, Köln
2004 World of Awe: New Works, bitforms gallery, New York
2003 Sala Uno Gallery, Rome
2001 Moving Image Gallery, New York
1998 One night in SOHO, private loft, New York
1993 Space Time Light Gallery, New York

Group Exhibitions:

2010 In Translation, Holster Projects, London
2009 Spazialismo, bitforms gallery, New York
2009 Heart in Heart, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
2009 The Secret of the Ninth Planet, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2009 Illiterature, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
2008 Illiterature, LIMN Art Gallery, San Francisco
2008 Peekskill Project 08, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York
2008 Chain Reaction, Upgrade! International, Skopje, Macedonia
2007 Contemporary Baroque: Extreme Excess/Özel Sergi, Beral Madra, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
2007 NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2007 stARTreck, the Next Gerneration, Orsini Palace, Bomarzo, Italy
2007 Thread, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
2006 Women in New Media, bitforms gallery, Seoul Lovelab, Galerie RX, Paris
2005 bitforms gallery, Seoul
2005 Netizens II, Sala Uno Gallery, Rome
2004 VideoZone2 Biennial, Israel
2004 New Forms Festival, Vancouver
2004 FILE: Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo
2004 Touch and Temperature, Debra Colton, Houston
2004 HYPER-RUNT, Inliquid, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia
2004 Touch and Temperature, bitforms gallery, New York
2004 Seoul Net & Film Festival, Seoul
2004 Peam, Electronic Arts Festival, Pescara, Italy
2004 Integrating the Digital Consciousness, Debra Colton, Houston
2004 Private and Public Spaces Online, 8th Israeli Internet Conference, Israel
2003 Boston CyberArts Festival, Massachusetts
2003 A Decade, Schroeder Romero gallery, Willamsburg, New York
2003 Lab3D, Cornerhouse, Manchester
2003 Web 3D Art, SIGGRAPH, St. Malo, France
2003 NOWN, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
2002 <Alt>, American Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, New York
2002 Beta-Launch, Artists-in-Residence, Eyebeam, New York
2002 25th Anniversary, The Drawing Center, New York
2002 Web Commissions, Chapter 2, SFMOMA, San Francisco
2002 Prints & Chips, bitforms gallery, New York
2002 Meta-Forms, Colgate College, Hamilton
2002 Whitney Biennial 2002, New York
2001 My_Last_Birthday_Party, De Balie, Amsterdam
2001 Viper >>REPLAY>>, [plug in], Switzerland
2001 Viper Festival, Switzerland
2001 Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Humboldt University, Berlin
2001 Net.Ephemeran, Moving Image Gallery, New York
2001 1.44MB, Moving Image Gallery, New York
2001 Wand 5, 14th Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart
2001 Technically Engaged, A.I.R Gallery, New York
2001 Interferences, France
2000 FILE: Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo
2000 Dystopia + Identity, Tribes Gallery, New York
2000 Refresh, the art of the screen saver, Stanford University
2000 Incubation, traAce conference, United Kingdom
1998 Gramercy International Art Fair, New York
1997 FIAC International Art Fair, Elizabeth Valliex Gallery, Paris
1997 Austrelitz@utrement, Paris
1996 Sauce A La Mode, Sauce Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1996 Momenta Art, Williamsburg, New York
1996 Sauce Gallery, Williamsburg, New York
1996 The Sparkling Bag, Elizabeth Valliex Gallery, Paris
1996 Either/Nor, Flamingo East, Kenny Schacter, New York
1995 Lemoyne Kennels America Theme Show, LKGG, Los Angeles
1995 Four Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
1995 The International Art Fair, Elizabeth Valliex Gallery, Basel
1995 Phallic Symols, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York
1995 People We Know, Edge Gallery, Denver
1995 Mon Voyage a Paris, Elizabeth Valliex Gallery, Paris
1994 Silverstein Gallery, New York
1994 Free Floating, 128 Gallery, New York
1994 Elizabeth Valliex Gallery, Paris
1994 Selection Spring ’94, The Drawing Center, New York
1994 NYU Small Work Competition and Show, New York
1993 Christmas Show, 128 Gallery, New York
1993 Space Time Light Gallery, New York
1992 Writings on the Wall, 303 Gallery, New York

Bibliography:

2009 Yael Kanarek, monograph by bitforms gallery
2009 Ollman, Leah, “Illiterature at Arena 1 Gallery,” Los Angeles Times, Mar 5
2008 “Object of Desire: Yael Kanarek’s World of Awe,” New York Magazine, Feb 25, p. 167
2006 bitforms gallery general catalogue
2005 ArtPhoto Magazine, USA and Romania
2005 Yael Kanarek, monograph by bitforms gallery
2004 Berwick, Carly, “Triptych: Who Bought What and Why?”, New York, Nov 1, p. 84
2004 Kanarek, Yael, “Net Art”, VideoZone2: The 2nd International Video-Art Biennial, in Israel, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Nov
2004 Johnson, Patricia C., “Artistic limits tested in exhibit”, Houston Chronicle, Oct 9, p. E3, E12
2004 Anspon, Catherine D., “ArtNotes”, Paper City, Houston, Jun, p. 6
2004 Sellam, Laetitia, “Off Whitney; Biennale Pirate en Ligne,” BAM 240, May, p. 16 Rusich, Rita, “World of Awe”, FIRMA Magazine, Italy, Jan, pp. 29-35
2004 Thursz, Michele, “Digitalia,” Catalog Essay, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh Gilramen, Dana, “To Print and Frame by Instructions”, Captain Internet, Ha’haretz Daily
2004 Kenan, Shlomzion, “Netgirl”, Ma’ariv, Israel
2004 Bard, Elizabeth, “A Video Game With Awe As Its Quest”, New York Times, Mar 21
2004 Time Out Israel, 11-4, p. 91
2004 Israel Internet Association Magazine, Ramat Gan, Israel, p.13
2002 Quaranta, Domenico, “World of Awe”, Exibart, Nov
2002 Lasky, Julie, “Wild at Art”, Samsung Digitall, Summer
2002 Sellam, Laetitia, “World of Awe: une carte du Tendre numérique”, Le Monde Interactif Jun
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2001 Bernd, Hendricks, “Digital Art in New York”, Wirtschaftswoche
2001 Whid, T., “Screen: It Hurts My Eyes (Interview with Yael Kanarek)”, Sandbox, Brooklyn, Winter, No. 8
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2000 Jana, Reena, “Net Art With a Groove”, Wired News
2000 Anderson, Lessley, “Selling Out for Art”, Industry Standard Praktica.net, France
2000 “New Coder of the week: July 4”, Newcoder.com
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2000 Sandbox Magazine #6
1997 Bachar, Ayelet, “Captain Internet”, Ha’aretz
1997 Giles, Fiona, “Dick For A Day”, Random House, Australia
1997 Greene, Rachel, Rhizome.org
1997 Ludwin, Victoria, “Riotgrrl”
1997 Giles, Fiona, “Dick for a Day”, Villard Books
1994 Cotter, Holland, “The Joys of Childhood Re-Examined”, The New York Times, 2010-03-25
1994 Finch, Elizabeth, “The Sick Rose”, The Drawing Center “
1994 Octubre #6”, Goaty Renraw Publications

Discography:

2006 Bit by Bit / Cell by Cell, Yael Kanarek and Yoav Gal

Awards:

2003 Netizens_Webprize, The International Net Art Competition, Rome, 1st Prize Winner
2002 CNRS/UNESCO, Paris, Lewis Carroll Argos Prize