Eran Shakine was born in 1962 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
He is an Israeli artist, painter, illustrator and sculptor. Between the years 1986–1993, Shakine lived in New York, where he was granted fellowship of “Art Matters” and was the assistant to CoBrA avant-garde movement artist, Karl Appel.
In his works, Shakine creates bold portraits which present prominent culture figures in unusual situations and contexts, among them: Freud dozing in his famous armchair, Picasso frying an egg; Pete Mondrian crossing the ocean in dog paddle swimming style. Shakine’s art always engages in the same subject, even though his artworks look different from one another.
His works are displayed in the permanent collection of the “British Museum” in London, the Ludwig Museum in Germany, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Museum, Tefen Open Museum, Herzliya Museum and Ein Harod Museum.
Education
1984 The art school École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
1983 Art History at Tel Aviv University
1980 WIZO-France High School of Arts, in Tel Aviv
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 ”Fences, Walls and Openings”, Barbara Ruetz, Munich
2019 ”A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew”, Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder Amsterdam, Holand
2018 “You & Me” A Billboard project for Lenbachplatz, München, Germany
2018 ”A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew”, the Jewish Museum Munich, Germany
2017 Lexus Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 A Muslim a Christian and a Jew, Jewish Museum, Berlin
2016 Looking at you / talking to myself, Zemack contemporary art, Tel Aviv.
2016 From Andy Warhol to Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art
2015 “Three painters, a rock star, a young girl and a psychoanalyst in one room״
2015 MANA Contemporary, New Jersey
2015 The best of Eran Shakine, ××I gallery, Geneva
2014 Graffitigirl, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 Art for Sale/Sail, Special project for fashion night TLV
2012 Sunny Side Up, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 Good help is hard to find…, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Catwalk, Gallery 39, Tel Aviv
2010 Minimal contradictions, TWIG Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009 Don’t worry, Julie M. Gallery, Toronto
2008 Sabbath Match, Gallery 39, Tel Aviv
2007 The Artist Who did not Look Back, Gallery 39, Tel Aviv
2003 Domestic, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2000 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1997 New Sculptures, Museum of Israeli Art
1995 Pools, Artists House, Jerusalem
1990 Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
1989 Selected 43, The Drawing Center, New York
1987 Givon Fine Arts Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Art KARLSRUHE
2018 Art Miami
2017 Street Art Volant – Torino
2017 Art Miami
2017 Art Stage Singapore
2016 Zona Maco Contemporary Art
2015 Art 15, London, Art Miami, Art Singapore, Art Central HK
2014 START – Saatchi Gallery, London
2013 Pulse Art Fair Miami
2012 Puls Art Fair NYC, Shanghai Contemporary,
2012 Art Platform Los Angeles,
2012 Art Toronto, Art Miami, with Zemack Gallery
2012 “We have a champion!” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel aviv
2011 Pulse Art Fair, LA and Miami, with Zemack Gallery
2010 Art Brussels, with TWIG Gallery
2009 Timebuoy, The Tel Aviv Biennial, Art TLV
2008 Van Gogh in Tel Aviv, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv
2005 On the Banks of the Yarkon, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2000 The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection,
2000 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1999 Drawing: New Acquisitions,
1999 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1994 Contemporary Art Meeting, Tel Hai 94, Israel
1994 Israeli Sculpture 1948-1998, The Open Museum, Tefen
1984 Noemi Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Awards
1989–1990 Art Matters Foundation: a non-profit private foundation supporting original and contemporary artists
2004 Portraits painting on the facade of the Tel Aviv Municipality building.
Public Collections
The British Museum, London
Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
The Open Air Museum, Tefen
Ein Harod Museum
Grants and Scholarships
2004 Portraits painting on the facade of the Tel Aviv Municipality building.
1989-90 “Arts Matters”, New York
1995 Artist in residence, “cite”, Paris
Public Sculptures and Permanent Installations
A Muslim a Christian and a Jew”-Live graffiti performance City hall Amsterdam -2019
Girl from Buda, Budapest
Rothschild tower by Richard Meier.
“You and Me” 2015, at the metropolitan tower plaza, Warsaw
Pedestrian mall, Rothschild st. Rishon LeZion.
Museum Tower Plaza, Tel Aviv
Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Artists House
Ashdod Park
Gan HaTzuk, Netanya
The College of Management, Rishon LeZion
Gan Kineret, Kfar Saba
Selected Bibliography
2019- kursbuch
Ronit Mathias – The Jerusalem post
NGA Barthels – Der Spiegel
Bildstrecke – Monopol-Magazin.
Jan Gardner – Boston Globe.
Petra Gute – ARD.de
Hilbrand Rozema – NederlandsDagblad
Barbara A. MacAdam, ARTnews
Nuit Banai, Artforum International Magazine
Aviva Lori, Haaretz Magazine
Books
2018 Graffiti Girl, Hirmer
2016 A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew
2016 Knocking on Heaven’s Door, Hirmer
2011 Sunny Side Up, Hirmer