Tal Shochat

Tal Shochat (Hebrew: טל שוחט; born 1974) is an Israeli photographer.
Early life.
Tal Shochat was born in 1974 in Netanya. She was educated at HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College from 1995 to 1999.
Career.
Shochat takes photographs of fruit trees against cloth backdrops. An article on "SFGate.com" explained that she " cleaned every branch and leaf before shooting five fruit trees that grow in Israel - peach, almond, pomegranate, apple and persimmon - at their peak of ripeness against a black background." In a review of an exhibit at the V&A, the "Financial Times" suggested her photographic method was comparable to David Buckland's.
Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, California, United States, and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, United Kingdom. Another artwork was also held at the Art Gallery of the University of Haifa in Israel prior to its disestablishment.
Exhibition History.
Shochat has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as being the recipient of prestigious awards for her work.
One-Person Exhibitions
2017  Lessons in Time, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017  Other Days, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2013  License to Survive, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012  In Praise of a Dream, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
2011  In a Praise of a Dream, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2008  Sometimes it’s Cold in the Morning, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007  Flying Ceiling, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2005  Awakening, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2005  Awakening, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003  Queen of the Night, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999  Marshim series, Haifa Museum of Art
Group Exhibitions
2019  Jacqueline Kahanoff: The Levant as a Parable, MUSA- Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2019  Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art, Towson
2018  The Desert Shall Rejoice and Blossom: Photographs by Oded Balilty and Tal Shochat, Jewish Federation of
Cleveland
2018  Voyage, Rosenfeld gallery, Tel Aviv
2018  Flood, Ashdod Art Museum
2018  Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
2018  Celebrating Israel’s 70th Anniversary: Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat, Nevada Museum of Art
2018  To The End of Land, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
2017  Into the Wood: Trees in Photography, V&A Museum, London
2017  Home-Mother, Afula’s local city gallery
2016  The Winners: Ministry of Culture and Sport Prizes for 2015, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2015  Flora Palestina- Photopoetics 5, The New Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem
2015  Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in contemporary Israeli Art, Stedman gallery
2015  Rutgers – Camden, N.J (traveling exhibition)
2015  The Wandering Jew: an Artistic Reflection, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa
2015  In Different Place, Electra Tower, Tel Aviv
2015  Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
2015  SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, The National Academy. Museum, New York
2014  Neighbors – Photographs from Israel, Tokyo Art Museum, Japan
2014  The Chicago Triangle, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2013  Leaving the Land of Roses, Shulamit Gallery, Venice, California
2012  Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2012 Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2011  Dignity and Gracefulness, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus/ Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Osnabrück, Germany
2011  Professionals, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010  Family Files, Jewish Museum, Munich, Germany
2010  In Detail: From the Collections of Arnie Druck, Haifa Museum of Art
2009  Passing Summer, P.O.V, The Israeli Photography Festival, Tel Aviv
2009  Four Openings in Israeli Art, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009  Ethics/ Aesthetics, Artists House, Tel Aviv
2009  Fireflies, CSB, The Curatorial Studies Program Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009  League, 100 years-101 women, 101 women artists, Amiad Center, Jaffa
2009  2009 Tel Aviv Time, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2008  Good Kids, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008  Dead End, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008  Stills 07-08, The Art Institute Gallery, Oranim Academic College
2008  Protected Space, The Art Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon
2008  Access to Israel: Israeli Contemporary Art, Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt
2008  Personal Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel, American University Museum, Washington
2008  Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2007  The Other Sea, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2007  Place Photography II, The New Gallery, Bet Gabriel on the Kinneret
2006  Raw and Cooked, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa
2006  Apropos Les Demoiselles, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2006  Omanut Haaretz, Reading Power Station Compound, Tel Aviv
2006  Making a Scene, Haifa Museum of Art
2006  Art of Living: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Israel Museum, The Contemporary Jewish
Museum, San Francisco
2006  Far and Away: The Fantasy of Japan in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2006  Prizes in Art from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, 2005, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2005  Little Red Hood, DotFiftyOne Art Space, Miami
2005  Disrupted Realism, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004  Omanut Haaretz, Reading Power Station Compound, Tel Aviv
2004  Love is in the Air: Images of Romantic Love in Contemporary Israeli Art, Time for Art – Israeli Art Center, Tel
Aviv
2003  Every Day, Every Year, The Art Gallery, Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
2003  Flowers, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002  Mother Tongue, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
2001  Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art
2001  Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000  Ladies and Gentlemen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2000  Arie Aroch, Pe’er Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000  Graduates at Rosenfeld, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999  Regarding Raffi, Nofar Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999  Graduates’ Exhibition, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park, Israel
Scholarships and Awards.
2015   The Minister of Culture and Sport’s Visual Art Award, Israel
2005  Prize for a Young Artist, The Israeli Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
Selected Collections.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Haifa Museum of Art Collection
The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv
Shalom Shpilman Collection
IDB Collection
Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California