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Nira Pereg, Israeli, born 1969.

Nira Pereg was born in Tel Aviv in 1969. In the early 1990s, she lived in New York. In 2005-2007, she lived in Germany. Most of her work documents rituals and ceremonies through which she explores the relationship between individual and community, and between the art object, narrative and viewer. In Souvenir (2004-2005), for example, she follows a Congolese refugee taking a walk around Tel Aviv, documenting the shifts between place and language. In Shabbat (2008), she documents how religious neighborhoods in Jerusalem close down for the Sabbath, creating a symbolic borderline between sacred and profane.

Education

1989-1993 B.F.A., Academy of Art and Science, Cooper Union Institute, New York City, USA
1998-2000 M.F.A., Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem

Teaching

Haifa University, Art Department
Beit Berl College, School of Engineering and Design, Midrasha LeOmanut
Shenkar College
2006 ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

Awards And Prizes

2000 Artist-in-residence, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2003 Scholarship, The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2006 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2009 Artist-in-residence, International Aux Recollets, Paris, France
2010 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2012 Prize in Visual Arts, Ministry of Culture and Sport
2016 Prize for a senior Video Artist, Ministry of Culture and Sport