About

Alina Speshilov

Alina Speshilov, artist, painter

Photo credit: Kalina Zheynova

b. 1973, St. Petersburg, former USSR, the third generation of Jewish immigrants from Belarus and Ukraine.

Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel since 1990.

Studies

2019-2021 MFA (with excellence), Department of Fine Arts, School of the Arts, Haifa University
1993-1996 BA, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University
1993-1997 Painting and drawing studies with Ira Reichwarger, supervision by Jun Rauchwerger
1986-1989

Art School for Youth, St. Petersburg, drawing and composition classes with Yelena Osipova

(finished with excellence).

Individual Exhibitions

2021

Time, MFA Graduate Exhibition, Dr. Reuven Hecht Arts Center, Haifa University.

Curators: Sharon Poliakine and Thalia Hoffman. (catalogue)

2019 Tel Aviv-Jerusalem-Tel Aviv. Jerusalem Print Workshop. Curator: Irena Gordon.
2015 Giv’at Haim: 1991 and  2015 . Art Gallery, Kibbutz Givat Haim Ihud, Curators: Rithy Hinsky Amitay, Hanush Morag.
2014 Keep it simple, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2011 From White to Black and Back, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. (catalogue)
2009 Perpetuum Mobile, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2008

+- Everything, Dollinger Art Project Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Urban Vibe, Habres + Partner Gallery, Vienna, Austria.

2006 Urbatika, Artist’s House, Tel Aviv. Curator: Galit Semel. (catalogue)
2003 Beasts, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2002 Tel Aviv Rooftops, Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 War and Peace – 50 Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Emanuela Calò.
2017 Middle Class, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Oranim College, Israel. Curator: Tali Cohen Garbuz.
Triumph of Painting, Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa. Curator: Nataliya Zorabova.
2016 Pop up, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2015 Local Pulse 2, Tel Aviv Artists House, curators Orli Hoffman and Arie Berkowitz.
2012 Not For Sale, Oded Shatil Collection, Art Gallery at the Memorial Center Tivon, Israel.
2011 The Bare Essentials, Art Gallery at the Memorial Center Tivon, Israel.
2010 Forest, Julie M Gallery, Toronto.
2009 Architecture. Inside / Out, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv.
League II, Amiad Center. Yaffo. Curator: Galia Yahav.
2008 Hess 8, Tel Aviv, Curators: Ravit Harari, Roi Mordechai.
Tel Aviv, my love. Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Highlights 2008, Habres + Partner Gallery, Vienna.
Near and Apparent, Connections and Contexts – A selection from Benno Kalev Collection,
The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park, Israel
2007 Traces | Contemporary Drawing in Israel III (Drawing Biennale), Jerusalem Artists House.
Jerusalem. Curator: Dalia Manor. (catalogue)
Home & Away: The Spaces We Inhabit, the Bronfman Center Gallery in New York University, USA. Curator: Lois Stavsky.
On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem. Curator: Arik Kilemnik. (catalogue)
2005 Conversation 4, Nachshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel. Curator: Yael Keiny.
Four Houses, Dwek Gallery Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem. Curator: Irena Gordon.
Forms of Freedom: Young Israeli Art, Kyiv Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kyiv, Ukraine. (catalogue)
League, Bait Be-Namal, Tel Aviv Port, Tel Aviv. Curator: GaliaYahav.
2004

Traces | Contemporary Drawing in Israel II (Drawing Biennale), Jerusalem Artists House.

Curator: Dror Burstein. (catalogue)

You are not looking hungry, Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2001

Traces | Contemporary Drawing in Israel (Drawing Biennale), Jerusalem Artists House.

Curator: Ilan Wizgan. (catalogue)

Collections

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Haifa University
Bank Leumi art collection, Israel
Benno Kalev private collection
Oded Shatil private collection
Private collections in Israel, the USA, Canada, and Austria

Grants and Awards

2022 Erasmus+ grant, lectures exchange between HIT, Israel, and HTW Dresden, Germany.
2020 Helena Markson Award, MFA program, Haifa University, Israel
2016 Alima Rita Award in printmaking, Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel
2003 Award from the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel

Teaching experience

2022 Drawing workshop, HTW University, Dresden
2022 – 2023 Drawing course, Minshar Art College, Tel Aviv
From 2021 Painting course for advanced adults, Education Department of Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art
From 2015 Painting and drawing course, Department of Interior Design, HIT Institute of Technology, Holon
From 2017 Bialik-Rogozin High School, Tel Aviv.
2011 – 2015 Drawing and painting instructor at Archijob Studio, Tel Aviv

Working and collaboration experience

2009 – 2016 Represented by Jullie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1997 – 2007 Archaeological artifacts drawer and graphic designer at the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.