Lives and works in Los Angeles.
yair.agmon@gmail.com
Education
2017 M.F.A., Photography and Media, California Institute of the Arts
2013 B.F.A. Photography, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2012 Zürcher Hochschule der Kunst, Zurich
Selected Exhibition, Screenings and Awards
2017
Duo Exhibition: Unbound Recollections, AJU, LA
Exhibition: Clothing Optional, Night Gallery, LA
Exhibition: Art School Alliance @ work, 250 Years of HFBK, Finkenau 42, Hamburg, Germany
Screening: EyeMyth Festival, Toronto, Canada
Talk & Screening: Start The Forgetting Machine, UCLA Department for Information Studies.
Screening: Long Shorts, Echo Park Film Center, LA
Exhibition: The Dangerous Professors, Triumph, Chicago
Exhibition: FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College
Talk: The Counter Archives of ActiveStills, #J18: Teach, Organize, Resist, CalArts
Award: "Best In Show" (GLAMFA), Selected by Jamillah James
Exhibition: GLAMFA #10, CalState Long Beach, Long Beach.
Award: The Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund
2016
Screening: East London University Experimental Film Festival
Exhibition: Have You Heard? CalArts, California
2015
Residency: Reciprocity (Asylum Arts), Los Angeles, California
Award: Philip And Muriel Berman Foundation Scholarship
2014
Exhibition: Rising Star, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Herzliya
Exhibition: Histories, Center for Digital Art (ArtLab), Holon
Grant: Nitzanim Documentary Accelerator, Israeli Documentarist Forum
2013
Exhibition: Based on a True Story, Bezalel Gallery for Photography, Jerusalem
Award: 10x10, Excellence in Graduating Project (for undergrad)
Grant: Jerusalem Film and Television Fund Production Grant for Students
2012
Exhibition: Borders, Bezalel Gallery for Photography, Jerusalem
Exhibition: Wie Gemeinsam? ZHdK Gallery for Photography, Switzerland