MICHAL RONNEN SAFDIE

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

Sunday Tuesday Thursday

Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY

Sunday Tuesday Thursday

AIPAD, New York, NY

2010

Vapor Trails

Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY

Rwanda: After, Darfur: Now

John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse, Boston, MA

2007

Charles Rive Ice

David Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Rwanda: After, Darfur: Now

Nazareth College Arts Center, Rochester, NY

2006

Charles River Ice and Anthropomorphic Trees

Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Rwanda: After, Darfur: Now

Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT

Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Charles River Ice

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

Rwanda: After

Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University, Boston, MA

Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA

2004

Rwanda: After

Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY

2002

Western Wall, traveling exhibition

La Galeria Torre del Reloj, Mexico City, Mexico

Anthropomorphic Trees

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

2001

Anthropomorphic Trees

Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY

Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Western Wall, traveling exhibition

Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

Museo de la Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala

2000

Western Wall, traveling exhibition

El Museo Call de Gerona, Spain

Museo D’Antropologie, San Salvador, El Salvador

San Miguel Museo, Lima, Peru

1999

Western Wall, traveling exhibition

Pontifical Gregorian University, the Vatican, Rome, Italy (as part of 2000 Jubilaeum)

Alcazar De los Reyes Cristanoes, Cordova, Spain

Albany State House, Albany, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 

The Social Medium

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

Place Matters

Mizel Museum, Denver Center for Performing Arts, Denver, CO

Rwanda, 1994-2014: Seven Photographers 

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Fine Art Galleries, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA

2009

Darfur/Darfur (selected venues)

La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

MIT Stata Center , Cambridge MA

2008

Darfur/Darfur (selected venues)

Spertus Institute, Chicago, Illinois

Prince Felipe Science Museum Valencia, Spain

Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Dakar, Senegal

Glenbow Museum Calgary, CanadaCity Museum of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Jardin du Trocadéro, Paris, France

Center for Education and Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia

2007

Darfur/Darfur (selected venues)

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany

Centro Internazionale de Fotografia, Milan, Italy

Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

The Field Museum, Chicago, IL

New York Historical Society, New York, NY

2006

Darfur/Darfur (selected venues)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Paris Photo, Paris, France

2001

Western Wall
Vision Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

COLLECTIONS 

deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

George Eastman House / International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY 

The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Private Collections

United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program

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Chang Richard. “Rwanda: After, Darfur: Now,” Reviews, ARTnews, October 2006.

Cuénin, Jonas. “Michal Ronnen Safdie: Tel Aviv, the separated beach,” La Lettre, March 15, 2012.

Dea, Cynthia. “A common thread of brutality,” Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2006.

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Kierzek, Kristine. “Rwanda: After, Darfur: Now,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 9, 2006. 

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Seligson, Joelle. “The Beauty and Brutality,” Museum News, March/April 2007. 

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PUBLICATIONS

Safdie, Michal Ronnen. The Western Wall. Hong Kong: Hugh Lautner Levin Associates Inc., 1997.

Safdie, Michal Ronnen. “Stilled Lives," The New Republic, May 15 2006.