Shai Yehezkelli (b. 1979) is an israeli artist.
Education
2002-2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Highest Honor (”Summa Cum Laude”) At the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2008-2010 Master of Fine Arts with honors at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Fountain, Solo gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Shouldn’t Couldn’t Wouldn’t, Darom, Tel Aviv
2012 Space C, Haifa museum of Art
2012 Forever Sweat-Beads, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 With Philistines, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 In Praise of Avalanche, The 2015 Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2018 Nothing Went Wrong to Write Home About , 2025 Kunst und Kultur, Hamburg
2018 Heel To Toe, Oded Shatil Contemporary Art Space, Tel-Aviv
2019 Maarava, Mindy Solomon gallery, Miami
2019 The Great Siesta, Chelouche gallery, Tel-Aviv
2021 Eight Primordial Paintings, Mindy Solomon gallery, Miami
2021 Slippery Slope, Uri and Rami Nehoshtan Museum, Ashdot Yaakov
2023 Shadows on a Mountainside, Chelouche gallery, Tel-Aviv
Grants, Residencies & Awards
2005 Awarded the art department prize for excellent achievements, Bezalel academy
2006 Awarded the “Leumi” art department prize for excellent Achievements, Bezalel academy
2006 Awarded the “Arieli” history & theory department award for Excellent achievements, Bezalel academy
2010 Awarded the Bezalel MFA program award, Bezalel Academy
2011 Chosen Lecturing Artist for “Sal Tarbut” program
2014 Israeli Lottery Council for the Culture and Arts grant for the publishing of the artist-book “Cocks and Tits and Hurt Feelings”
2015 Laureate of the Rappaport prize for a Young Israeli Artist
2016 Israeli Lottery Council for the Culture and Arts grant for publishing the catalog of the Tel-Aviv Museum show “In Praise of Avalanche”
2017 Artist-in-residence, Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz (The Jewish Museum of Switzerland), June-September
2018 Artist-in-residence, Achterhaus Ateliergemeinschaft, Hamburg