Karam Natour
Born in Nazareth, 1992
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Education
2015-2017 M.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Tel Aviv
2011-2015 B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
2013 Fall Semester at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 “Karam Natour: Vidéos”, ‎Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
2021 “Night Vision”, CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv
2021 “Blessing in Disguise”, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Zurich
2021 “Blurred Lines”, Oncurating Project Space, Zurich
2021 “Family Pictures”, duo show with Guy Ben Ner, Oranim College Gallery, Tivon
2020 “Blurred Lines”, HULU SPLIT, Split
2018 “Body Following Spirit”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 “Repeat After Me”, Umm El Fahem Gallery, Umm El Fahem
2016 “Following No Mythologies”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 “PROXIES”, NARS Foundation, New York
2024 “Lucid Dreams”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2024 “A New Humanism”, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin
2024 “War and Peace”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2024 “The Block”, Minus1 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2024 “A Very Narrow Bridge”, The ‘24 Jerusalem Biennale, Jerusalem
2023 “Spectrum of Lights”, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv
2023 “Fabbrica del Vapore”, Viafarini Gallery, Milan
2022 “Global Positioning”, Public Art Fund, New York
2022 “Someone Else”, Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Freiburg
2022 “SIXTH TONE”, Philomena+, Vienna
2022 “A very narrow bridge”, Museo Ebraico, Lecce
2022 “Through the Mirror”, Wilfrid Museum, Kibbutz Hazora
2022 “Alpha”, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
2022 “False Awakening”, The GH Art Gallery, Givat Haviva
2022 “Meshalya”, Hansen House, Jerusalem
2022 “That Obscure Object of Desire”, Beit Kandinof, Tel Aviv
2021 “Mythologies contemporaines”, Images Passages, Annecy
2021 “Speech Act”, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, New York
2021 “That Those Beings Be Not Being”, W139 Gallery, Amsterdam
2021 “Glocal Emotions”, Motorenhalle Gallery, Dresden
2021 “The Way We Survive”, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva
2021 “Love in the Time of Social Media”, Rote Fabrik, Zurich
2021 “NonFinito 2021”, Artport, Tel Aviv
2021 “My Name Is Red”, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2021 “LIVING TOGETHER”, The 4th Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa
2020 “Bodyscapes”, ‎The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2020 “Best Interest”, Koresh14 Gallery, Jerusalem
2019 “Family Stories”, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum
2019 “Drop Dead Funny”, The Brno House of Arts, Brno
2019 “Illuminations”, Yeltsin Center Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg
2019 “Spiritualism”, ‎Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2019 “Fake News – Fake Truth”, ‎Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2019 “Nurse, Nurse”, Manofim Festival Main Exhibition, Jeursalem
2019 “Drywall”, ‎Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
2019 “Illuminations”, ‎Smena Gallery, Kazan
2019 “Personal Expressions”, ‎Mormon University, Jerusalem
2019 Love in the Time of Social Media”, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich
2018 Illuminations”, ‎Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2018 Seven Rituals to Change the Mood”, ‎Yarkon 19 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 “Looper”, ‎Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2018 “Shop it!”, ‎Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2018 “I to Eye”, ‎The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2018 “ART in Oost”, ‎QRU Amsterdam
2018 “Pyramid Platform”Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa
2018 “Into The Bush”, ‎Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 “ShowReal”, The Photography Gallery of Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
2018 “P=0.5”, The Social Gallery, Musrara Mix #18, Jerusalem
2018 “70/70/70”, The Santa Barbara Center for Art, California
2018 Hide & Seek”, The Israel Museum, Youth Wing, Jerusalem
2018 “Mixed Chromosome”, MOM ART SPACE, Hamburg
2017 “Current Affairs”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Selected Film Festivals Screenings
2021 Jerusalem Film Festival 2021, Jerusalem
2018 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF 2018, Bucharest
2017 15th Tabor Film Festival, Dvor Veliki Tabor
2017  63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen
Selected Academic Positions
2024-Today Lecturer, The University of Haifa, Haifa
2018-Today Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
2021-2022 Lecturer, Hamidrasha Art School, Beit Berl
Selected Scholarships, Awards and Residencies
2024 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin
2024 Universität der Künste Berlin, Residency Program, Berlin
2023 VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Residency Program, Milan
2020 The Anselm Kiefer Prize, Wolf Foundation
2020 Forbes 30 under 30
2020 Young Video Artist Award, Ministry of Science Culture and Sport, Jerusalem
2020 Artis Grant for Exceptional Work in Uncertain Times
2020 Artport Residency Program Grant, Tel Aviv
2020 The Pais Council for Culture and Art, Exhibition Grant
2020 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
2019 La Maison Residency, Burgundy
2019 Artis Grant Program, Residency Grant
2019 Ostrovsky Family Fund, Video Grant
2018 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
2018 The Pais Council for Culture and Art, Exhibition Catalogue Grant
2018 Special Mention of the Jury Award, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
2017 The Pais Council for Culture and Art, Exhibition Grant
2017 Academic Excellence Award, MFA program, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
2015 10X10 Prize for Academic Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
2012 Revital Serri Z.L. Award, Excellence Prize, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Collections
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
KADIST, Paris—San Francisco
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
Soho House Collection, Tel Aviv
Haaretz Collection, Tel Aviv
The Luna Art Fund, New York—Tel Aviv