Education
Shemesh studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (1972-1976). Shemesh attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture from 1979-1983.
Shemesh studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (1972-1976). Shemesh attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture from 1979-1983.
Born in Haifa, Israel, to Albert Shemesh and Carmella-Daisy Levy. Albert was an important Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) activist in Iraq, before the creation of the state of Israel. Shemesh has also taught and lectured at a variety of other schools and programs, including the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, Kremer Pigments, and the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture.
Shemesh’s work is in the permanent collection of Collezione Maramotti and appears in Mario Diacono (2012), Archetypes and Historicity: Painting and Other Radical Forms, 1995-2007, Ophrah Shemesh: Silence of the Sirens, 2008-2011, and Max Tomasinelli (2011), Portraits of Artists.
Freight & Volume, New York, New York, 2008
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2003
Baumgartner Gallery, New York, New York, 2002
Guy McIntyre Gallery, New York, New York, 1997
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Master of Arts, 1995
Galleria South.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy, 1995
Galleria Philippe Daverio, Milan, Italy, 1982
Tosi, Barbara, “Tanti Retratti di Divi Non Illustri,” Louisiana Repubblica, May 24, 1995
Coen, Vittoria, “Ophrah Shemesh at Galleria South.A.L.E.S.,” Flash Art, 1995
Sherman, Mary, “Ophrah Shemesh, Mario Diacono,” ARTnews, December 1995. Ebony, David, “David Ebony’s Top Ten of 1997: Ophrah Shemesh at Guy McIntyre,” Artnet, December 23, 1997.
Gagnier, Bruce Mitchel, “Ophrah Shemesh at Guy McIntyre,” Art in America, September, 1998. Goodman, Jonathan, “Ophrah Shemesh at Baumgartner,” Art in America, February, 2003.
Amy, Michaël J., “Ophrah Shemesh: Freight + Volume,” Art in America, November, 2008.
Cohen, David, “Deliciously Distressed,” New York Sun, March 13, 2008.
In 1986, she was one of a new group of teachers brought in by then dean, Bruce Gagnier and has been a member of the faculty since.