Selected Works

outdoors


'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art


'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art



'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art


'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art
Yuval Yairi (Born in 1961, Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel
Yuval Yairi is an Israeli-born Jerusalem-based contemporary artist working in the media of photography and video. Yairi studied visual arts at Wizo-Hadassa in Haifa, Israel. He has been an art director and graphic designer and works in documentary and corporate film production.
Yairi’s photographic technique is a meticulous process of capturing environments. His works resemble photographic mosaics and are created by a process of frame-by-frame shooting and then combining and revising these images. The subjects of Yairi’s work relate to a historical, cultural, personal or political place and they express an artistic comment on human observation and the natural process of memory. Upon first glance his compositions appear tranquil and still. With deeper inspection the grid-like pattern of the combined fragments of each shot, grant a sense of continuous time to a distorted environment.
In his series Palaces of Memory, Yuval Yairi challenged the “Decisive Moment” principle championed by Henri Cartier-Bresson. In his works, such as MemoVan #4, Yairi assembles digital collages from hundreds of different angles to create an alternate vision of reality. For Yairi, capturing a single decisive moment would mean the possibility of overseeing the moment that proceeded or the one that followed. Hence, his images are a poetic ode to the passing of time. Moreover, the seams delineating the different images are not emitted out of the final image. Like the construction of memory from disparate flashbacks, the different images collaborate to present a unified panoramic view.
Yairi’s work has been exhibited at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2004); San Diego Natural History Museum, California (2007); Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China (2008), and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2011).
His works are in permanent museums collections and private collectors worldwide, including the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, Livnat in Holland, Naggar in England, Berman and Bloch in Los Angeles and Constantiner in New York.
He is a recipient of the Ministry of Culture Award for Visual Arts, 2017.
VIDEO
EXHIBITIONS

Group Show
Spring Show 2024
May 24 - Jun 30, 2024

Group Show
United We Stand
Nov 15 - Dec 31, 2023

GROUP SHOW
WINTER 2023
Feb 17 - Mar 24, 2023

Yuval Yairi
Land (Project Room)
Dec 30, 2022 - Jan 31, 2023

Group Show
Election Day 2022
Nov 1 - Dec 9, 2022

Group Show
Winter 2022
Jan 1 - Feb 14, 2022

Group Show
Summer Show 21
Aug 1 - 31, 2021

Group Show
Territory of Tenderness
Sep 10 - Nov 30, 2020

Group Show
91-DIVOC
Jun 1 - Aug 31, 2020

ShowRoom
March 2020
Mar 19 - Apr 24, 2020

Group Show
J20
Jan 2 - Feb 2, 2020

Group Show
French Salon 2
Jul 1 - Aug 31, 2019

Group Show
4×4
Apr 4 - May 17, 2019

Group Show
N18
Nov 1 - Dec 14, 2018

Group Show
Summer Show 2018
Jun 28 - Aug 31, 2018

Group Show
French Salon
Mar 8 - Apr 27, 2018

Group Show
N17
Nov 30, 2017 - Jan 1, 2018

Group Show
Summer Show 17
Aug 8 - Sep 17, 2017

Group Show
April 2017
Apr 21 - May 26, 2017

Group Show
March 2017
Mar 10 - Apr 14, 2017

Group Show
Spring Break
Apr 20 - May 18, 2016

Group Show
Topography
Mar 3 - Apr 15, 2016

Group Show
40,30,20
Jan 8, 2015 - Feb 19, 2016

Group Show
Summer Show 12
Jul 10 - Sep 1, 2012

Group Show
2012
Mar 15 - Apr 15, 2012

Group Show
Venice Mémoire
Aug 18 - Sep 15, 2011

Group Show
Purity & Danger
Dec 23, 2010 - Feb 23, 2011
ART FAIRS

Art Miami
Dec 3 - 8, 2024

Art Miami
Dec 5 - 10, 2023

Fresh Paint Tel Aviv
May 30 - Jun 4, 2023

Art Palm Beach
Mar 23 - 26, 2023

Art Miami
Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2022

Fresh Paint Tel Aviv
Oct 21 - 26, 2021

Art Miami
Dec 4 - 9, 2018

Art Toronto
Oct 26 - 29, 2018

Fresh Paint 10
Apr 26 - 30, 2018

Art Miami
Dec 5 - 10, 2017

Art Toronto
Oct 27 - 30, 2017

Fresh Paint 9
Mar 28 - Apr 1, 2017

Art Miami
Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2016

Art Toronto
Oct 28 - 31, 2016

Art New York
May 3 - 8, 2016

Fresh Paint 8
Apr 5 - 9, 2016

Art Miami
Dec 1 - 6, 2015

Art Toronto
Oct 22 - 26, 2015

Art 15
May 21 - 23, 2015

Art Market SF
Apr 29 - May 3, 2015

Fresh Paint 7
Nov 4 - 8, 2014

Art Toronto
Oct 23 - 27, 2014

Art Market SF
May 15 - 18, 2014

Pulse New York
May 8 - 11, 2014

Art Toronto
Oct 25 - 28, 2013

Art Southampton
Jul 25 - 29, 2013

Fresh Paint 6
May 21 - 25, 2013

Art Market SF
May 11 - 15, 2013

Pulse New York
May 9 - 12, 2013

Art Stage Singapore
Jan 24 - 27, 2013

Context Art Miami
Dec 4 - 9, 2012

Art Toronto
Oct 26 - 29, 2012

Art Platform L.A
Sep 27 - 30, 2012

Art Hamptons
Jul 12 - 15, 2012

SF Fine Art Fair
May 16 - 20, 2012

Fresh Paint 5
May 15 - 19, 2012

Pulse New York
May 3 - 6, 2012

Pulse Miami
Dec 1 - 4, 2011

Fresh Paint 4
Apr 4 - 8, 2011
PUBLICATIONS
PRESS

erev rav (heb)
Dec 2018

Blouin Artinfo (Eng)
May 2017

Kansas City Chronicle (Eng)
Nov 2016

Calcalist (Heb)
Oct 2016

ArtBeat Blog
Sep 2016

Calcalist (Heb)
Nov 2013

‘Work’ Review | ‘Galleria’ Haaretz (Heb)
Jun 2011

City Mouse (Heb)
May 2011

The New Yorker (Eng)
Jan 2011

The New Yorker (Eng)
Nov 2011

Ynet (Heb)
Dec 2010

Yedioth Ahronoth (Heb)
Aug 2010

‘Galleria’ Haaretz (Heb)
Aug 2005


Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art

Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art


Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art



Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art


Yuval Yairi, 'Surveyor' - Installation Shots, Sep. 2016
Zemack Contemporary Art









