Gabriela Schutz
Gabriela Schutz is an artist based in London. In her work she is fascinated with the way technology, information, communication and consumerism are increasingly shaping our life and the way we relate to nature.
Gabriela graduated with distinction from the MA Fine Arts course at Central Saint Martins, London, in 2023 and is the winner of the Cass Art prize 2023 and Clifford Chance/ University Arts London Sculpture Award 2024.
She graduated in 1996 with a BA degree in Fine Arts from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. During this course she spent a term on an exchange programme at The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
Gabriela has exhibited nationally and internationally in museums such as The Gefferye Museum, London, The Collection, Lincoln, Ein Harod Museum and Petach Tikva Museum, Israel, and in galleries such as the Jerwood Space, Gasworks, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary and Standpoint in London, The Wilson, Cheltenham, Artists Space and The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts in New York.
Her work has been short-listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 3 times, the Trinity Buoys Wharf Drawing Prize, as well as twice for the Neo Print Prize. Her work is included in Bruce Castle Museum collection , large corporate art collections such as Zoom's, as well as many private collections in Europe, the U.S.A and Israel.
Gabriela was an art teacher at Richmond Adult Community College (RACC) in London for ten years and has also taught at the Natural History Museum London. Currently she is teaching in her own studio in North London.
Gabriela is represented in Israel by Keren Bar-Gil
C.V
Born in Israel in 1971. Living and working in London since 1999.
Education
2021-2023 MA Fine Art, Central St Martins, London
2013- 2016 Etching course at Working Man College, London
1996 Student exchange, ‘Slade School of Arts’, London.
1992-1996 BA Fine Art at Bezalel College of Art, Jerusalem.
1988-91 Painting studies with Rachel Sahvit, chairwoman of ‘The Israeli Painters and Sculptors
Association’.
Solo/ Dialogue Exhibitions
2018 'lookback@now', curated by Jane Bower, ArtHouse1, London. View
2017 'DISconnect' , One Paved Court, London. View
'A Walk in Myddleton Road', Bruce Castle Musuem, London. View
2015 ‘Street Seen’, dialogue show with Andrew Buurman, Geffrye Museum, London View
2014 ‘Like, Comment, Share’, Redhanded, London View
2013 ‘Holyland’, Muesum of Art- Ein Harod’, Israel. View
2007 ‘One Way’, dialogue project with Rob Osborn, 18m Gallery, Berlin, Germany. View
2005 ‘The Invasion of the Trojan Horses’, Platform Gallery, London. View
2004 'For Your Own Good’, Jeffery Charles Gallery, London.
2003 ‘Growth’, The Artists Association, ‘Threshold’ Project, curator: Orly Hoffman, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2001 ‘Don’t miss Gabriela Schutz @ ‘dontmiss’, Curator: Saul Judd, Frankfurt.
Selected group exhibitions
2024 'Underbelly', curator: Lital Marcus Morin, Beita Gallery, Jerusalem
2023 ‘(UN)DONE’, Hypha Studios, London
‘What We Thought We Knew’,Koppel Project Station
‘Every Cloud’, curator, Deborah Hedgcock, Bruce Castle Museum
2022 ‘Wide Angle’, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
‘This is Not a Party’, Interim show CSM, Trinity Buoys Wharf, London
2021-22 'Trinity Buoys Wharf Drawing Prize- touring exhibition at:
Trinity Buoys Wharf, London and Drawing Projects UK, Wiltshire.
2018 ‘The Machine Stops’, Daniel Arnaud gallery, London View
2015 ‘White Winter’, curated by Keren Bar Gil, White City, Tel Aviv.
Jerwood Drawing Prize, touring show at Jerwood Space in London, The Wilson in
Cheltenham, Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury and Falmouth Art Gallery in Cornwall
‘No Place like Home’, curator: Gabriela Schutz, water institute Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel View
2014 ‘Tweet! Tweet!’, part of Office Session2, London View
‘Enclosure’, curated by Gabriela Schutz and Dan hays, Danielle Arnaud, London View
2012 ‘View Point’, curated by Gabriela Schutz, 3 person show, Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv. View
2010 ‘The Beauty of Mistake’, Curated by Keren Bar Gil, Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Weidersehen in Hamburg- Drei Iraelische Kunstler, Axel Springer Passage, Hamburg, Germany
‘Explosion: Contemporary Israeli Art in Geneva’, Freestudios Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2008 Halalit Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
‘The Golden record’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
‘The Golden record’, The Collection, (touring show), Lincoln, UK.
2006 Dialogue project, Moot Gallery, Nottingham.
‘Everything Must Go’, VTO Gallery, London.
‘Broken Romance’, Standpoint Gallery, London.
‘Let There Be Light’, Auction for the Israel Museum, Sotheby’s, London.
2005 ‘Transpositions’, Curator: Orly Hofman, Petach-Tikva Museum, Petach- Tikva, Israel.
2004 Boys V Girls, Hangrove art Space, Bristol.
‘Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004’, Jerwood Space, London.
‘Death of Romance’, curators: Amanda Beech & Matthew Poole, 17 Ganton Street, London.
2003 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003, touring show from Sep 03- March 04, in:
- Jerwood Space, London
- Pittville Gallery, university of Gloucestershire, Cheltnham.
- Rennie mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.
- EiCH Gallery, University of Lincoln, Hull.
'Picture Room', Gasworks, project of Gushka Macuga, London.
2002 '14" x 14"', Century Gallery, London
'Painting as Paradox', Artists Space, curator: Lauri Firstenberg, NYC.
'Platform auction, foundraiser:2', Platform gallery, London.
2001 14" x 14", Mafuji Gallery, London.
‘America’, Gallery Westland Place, curator: Danielle Arnaud, London.
‘Excursion’, ’ VTO Gallery’, Curator: Claude Bravo, London.
‘International Young Art 2001’, exhibition and auction at:
- ‘The Elizabeth Foundation for Arts’, New York
-‘Sotheby’s’, Tel Aviv.
2000 ‘Universe’, ‘Platform Gallery’, Curator: Sheila Lawson, London.
1999 ‘Traces of Five Millennia’, ‘Hanover Galleries’, Part of Liverpool Biennale of
Contemporary Art’, Liverpool.
1998-99 ‘5 Junge Kunstler aus Jerusalem’, touring show in Germany at the Jewish Museum, Rends burg and‘Galerie des Hauses Dacheruden’in Erfurt and Axel Springer Verlag’, Hamburg.
1998 Exhibition at Sotheby’s auction, Tel Aviv.
Artist – Shelter’, Shelter project of the Tel Aviv municipality, Tel Aviv
Prizes
2024 Clifford Chance/ University Arts London Sculpture Award 2024.
2023 Winner of Cass Art Prize 2023
2021 Shortlisted for the Trinity Buoys Wharf Drawing Prize 2021
2016 Shortlisted for the 'Neo:printprize 2016
2015 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015
2014 Shortlisted for the ‘Neo:print Prize 2014
2004 Short listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004
2003 Short listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003
Art fairs
2013 Art 13, exhibited with Salon Vert, London
2008 Fresh paint, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Zoo Art fair, with Jeffery Charles Gallery, London
Pilot 1,2 and 3, London
Collections
Bruce Castle Musuem, London
Zoom collection
Eliezer Fishman collection, Israel
Baker & McKenzie collection, Hari Kunzru, London
Private collections in England, Belgium, U.S.A, Switzerland, Norway, Holland and Israel
Press
Interview at the Joe Good Show at BBC London Radio July 2020
Item about 'Lookback@now, Alondon, 2018
Judith Elder, The Machine Stops, a-n Magazine, 2018
Allondon, exhibition review, by Calanit Shechner Laufer, July 2017.
Haringey People Marvellous Myddleton..August 2017
Daniel Cahanah, Blog review, 2014
Hagi Cohen, Alondon, 2014
Wall Street International, 2014
Miuki Kasahara, Creator Station, Japan, 2014
David Minton , a-n Magazine, 2014
Uzi Tzur, Haaretz, 2013
Nisha Magazine’, , Septmber 2010 and November 2010.
Kunslerische Wiederbegegnung, Hamburger Abendblatt September 2009
Sabin Groswendt and katharina helwig, Kunst- magazine Berlin, July 2007.
David Barrett ,’Everything Must Go’, ‘’Art Monthly ’, 2006
First Source’, (photo of work), April 2005
Jerusalem Post, (photo of work), March 2005
Jonathan Jones, ‘Death of Romance’, TheGuardian, June 2004
Rutti Director, ‘prototype’, City Mouse, March 2004.
Omer Lachmanovich, ‘The out of city does not exist’, First Source, March 2004
David Rap, ‘A Suburban Culture’, Ha’aretz, March 2004
‘Growth’, TimeOut tel- Aviv, February 2004
Talia Halkin, 'Arts & letters' , The New York Sun, December 2002.
Martin Herbert, ‘Universe’, Time Out London, August 2000
Peter Alexander Fiedler, ‘Ballett Zwischen Autos’, Thüringer landeszeitung, November 98
‘Fünf künstler aus Israel zu Gast in der hansestadt’, Die Welt, September 98
Dana Gilerman,’ Art in Shelters opening in Tel Aviv’, Ha’aretz, November 97
Publication
Participation of Human Force of Nature booklet in Offprint London, Tate Modern, 2024
‘What We Thought We Knew’, exhibition catalogue, 2023
Post graduate MA Fine Art catalogue, 2023
Human Force of Nature, artist book, edition of 60, 2023
Trinity Buoys Wharf Drawing Prize 2021, Catalougue, 2021
'lookback@now', exhibition catalogue, Art House1, London , 2018
I Want To See You Not Through the Machine, by Natasha Stallard, 2018
Neo Print Prize Catalogue 2016
Jerwood Drawing Prize Catalogue 2015
White Winter, catalogue, Tel Aviv, 2015
Neo Print Prize Catalogue 2014
Nisha Magazine, curated exhibition, by Ravit harari, Israel 2014
Catalogue, Freestudios Gallery, 2009.
Catalogue, Moot Gallery, 2006
Cover painting, Block Magazine, Israel, 2006
‘Let There Be Light’, catalogue, 2006
Transpositions, catalogue, 2005
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004, catalogue
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003, catalogue
'Painting as Paradox', catalogue, 2002.
International Young Art 2001, catalogue, 2001
Traces of Five Millennia, catalogue, 1999
Sotheby’s auction catalogue to support Bezalel Academy of Art, 1998