Deganit Berest

Deganit Berest was born in 1949 in Petah Tikva. She began her work in printmaking in the 1970s, specializing in screenprint. In the 1990s she created works in etching, especially in acquaint. In these works, Berest examined the boundaries of visual imagery using techniques of enhancement and disassembly.

Education
1973 B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1980 M.F.A. Pratt Institute, New York, NY, USA

Awards and Prize (selection)
1987 The Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1988 Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Ministry of Education and Culture
1991 George and Janet Jaffin Prize for Excellence in Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1993 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000 Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Isracard Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2005 Prize for Plastic Arts, Ministry of Education and Culture
2007 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2012 Ruth and Baruch Rapaport Prize for an established artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Solo Exhibition (selection)
1977 M. Ross Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1977 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1983 The Discussion, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1987 Dganit Berest: Loch-ness Investigation (Work in Prigress), Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1989 Dganit Berest: Loch Ness Investigations, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1997 Berest Dganit: The Montager or Broken Telephone, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2004 Deganit Berest: Four Chapters on Water, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2005 Glasses and Fractures, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2012 A poem by Tadeusz Różewicz, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 Deganit Berest: The Conspiracy of Nature Works, 1973–2013, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2016 The Making of: a Poem by Tedeusz Rozewicz, HaMidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1994 Special Reserve, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1996 Prints – New in the Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1997 Sadnat Hahedpes, Jerusalem, Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College
2002 35 Prints – 35 Years of Occupation, Hagar Art Gallery, Jaffa
2003 35 Prints – 35 Years of Occupation, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2006 Orlando, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2006 Three exhibitions of Etching works, The Negev Museum of Art, Be’er Sheva
2006 Portfolios From The Gottesman Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2007 On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2009 Land and Sea, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2012 Aspects of Black, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park