Tomer Ganihar Biography
Tomer Ganihar
Born 1970 Tel-Aviv Israel
Live and work in Jaffa, Israel.
Self-Taught
Films Projects 2015-2016
Sodom City – the movie
Writing 2015
Sodom City – a noble, Zabam Publishing
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2018 Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2011 Battat Contemporary gallery, Montreol
2010 Israeli Opera house at the Leumi Bank, Tel Aviv
2009 GL STRAND Museum, Copenhagen
2008 Art Museum tennis palace, Helsinki City Art Museum
2008 Gallery 39, Tel Aviv
2005 Contemporary Arts Center-Museum, New Orleans
Paul Rodgers Gallery/9W, New York
2003 United Nation Headquarters, New York
2000 Tel Aviv Museum Of Art
1998 Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv
Chelouch Gallery, Tel Aviv
1997 Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions
2015 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los-Angeles
2015 Arte Laguna Prize finals show, Italy
2014 Manchester Art Gallery Museum 2012 Yale University Art Gallery
2007 The International Pavilion, The Venice Art Biennale
2003 Recent Acquisitions, The Jewish Museum, New York
2001 Spunky, Exit Art, New York
2000 Views From Israel, Gallery of Contemporary Art, San Francisco
1999 90th Annieversary of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1998 Urban Touch, Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv
Writing publications
2001 Elctricity In The Air, Essays, Yediot Acaronot Publishing
1996 Welcom To Texas, Short Stories, Gvanim Publishing
Films
Prophet On The Run, 54 minutes fiction.
Writer, director, producer:
2009 Los Angeles Film festival
2008 Britain International film festival
Awards
1998 Yehoshua Rabinovitz foundation Writing Grant
1997 The President Residence Prize for Young Artists
Selected publications
Nytimes, New Yorker, Art In America, ArtNews, Time-Out N.Y, Vouge, Der-Spigel.
Selected collections – private and public
Si Newhouse, Rothschild bank Zurich, Yale University Art Gallery, Bronfman family, Michael Steinhardt, Howard Rubenstein, Stern family N.Y, Arthur Fleischer, Nouriel Rubini, The Jewish Museum N.Y, The Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv Museum, GL STRAND Museum, Helsinki City Art Museum, D.H Blair Bank, Leumi Bank
Tomer Ganihar (born in 1970) is an Israeli photographer and writer. Ganihar, a self-taught artist, is known for his distinctive photographic style that employs only color film and natural light. His work, which often captures the dynamics of Israeli youth culture, has been exhibited in various museums and galleries worldwide, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Helsinki City Art Museum, and the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
Ganihar’s early photography focused on the Israeli young counterculture scene, documenting rave parties and nightclubs. This body of work presents an alternative, cosmopolitan aspect of Israeli life, contrasting with the region’s conflicts.
In addition to his photography, Ganihar has published a book of selected essays titled Electricity in the Air (2001), a collection of short stories, Welcome to Texas (1996), and a novel, Sodom-City (2015). His writings explore themes similar to those in his photography, often focusing on modern spirituality and cultural issues. Ganihar has also engaged in filmmaking, writing and directing Prophet on the Run (2008), a 54-minute fiction film.