Guy Shoham

Shoham's practice is constantly evolving. Elements change, develop and reappear in new forms and contexts. The resulting paintings raise questions about authenticity and fakery, reality and reflection, construction and destruc- tion.
His work deals with beauty and temptation, the tension between high art and low art, and between abstraction and realism. Blurring the difference between kitsch and modernism while raising questions about these two dichotomies. It is a personal quest, raising conceptual questions about the craft of painting and its position within the world.
Shoham's grandfather founded a family timber yard in the 1930s in Tel-Aviv. His childhood memories are scattered with sawdust and towering stacks of plywood sheets. It was an exciting place in which to hide and play. Shortly after the patriarch’s death in 2003, a fire destroyed the family business along with souvenirs and documents from the past 70 years. These remembrances and events are manifest in Shoham's work in ways formal and metaphoric.

2003-2004 The Drawing year, The Prince's Drawing School, London.
2001-2002 MA fine art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.(graduate with distinction).
1998-1999 The Jerusalem Studio School, master class instructed by I. Hershberg
1998 Summer program at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore.
1992-1996 BA fine art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.

Grants, awards and residency
Sep 03- June 04- Studies Grant, The Drawing Year, The prince's trust, London.
Apr 03- Aug 04 - Artist in residence, RACC, London.
2002 - Studies Grant, AVI Fellowship, Switzerland.

Solo Shows
2022 “The anguish of the earth absolve our eyes” Rupturexibit, London
2015 Longing, part of Office Session III, London
2014 Let Us Be Human!, Part of Office Sessions II, London.
2014 Magpie, Part of Office Sessions, London.
2012 Black Water, Artcore Gallery, Vienna.
2009 Evanesced, an installation by Guy Shoham.Shed And a Half Gallery, London, UK.
2008 Schmuklermann, Dollinger art project, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2005 Little China, The artists' association, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Orly Hoffman

TwoMan Show
2014 Bounds/Bonds, with Tasleem Mulhall. Pop-up gallery@ 50 Brook Street, London.
2010 Spotted, Maria Wolfram and G.Shoham. Water Institute Gallery, Givatayim, Israel. Curator: Orly Hoffman.
2007 'Cut and paste', Tessa Payne and G.Shoham, Wings Projects Art Space, Geneva. Curator: Lisa Bosse

Selected Group Exhibitions
October 2022 Wide Angle, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2022 Twenty20, M Galleries, New Jersey, US / ASC Gallery, London
2022 I celebrate Myself part 2, ASC gallery, London
2021 Post-Pandemic, pop up space, Tel Aviv. Curator: Keren Bar Gil
2019 Captured Collapse, with M, Wolfram, Kulttuuritalolaikku, Tampere, Finland
2017/19 Paper Scissor Stone, Haifa Museum, IL & Ben David Museum, Kibutz Bar-Am, IL.
2013 Come Closer...