Tami Katz-Freiman (; born 1955), former Chief

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of the

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, is an Israeli-born American art historian, curator and critic, based in Miami, Florida, where she works as an independent curator of contemporary art.

Biography

From 2005-2010 she was the Chief Curator of the HMA (

) in Israel. She started her curatorial practice in 1992 and over the years she has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions in prominent museums in Israel and the US, where she lived and worked also between 1994 and 1999. In the years 2008-2010 she was teaching

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and

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at the Department of Art History at the

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and curatorial studies at the International Curatorial Program of the Kalisher School of Art and Technology in Tel Aviv. In addition to essays for catalogues and books published in conjunction with the exhibitions she has curated, Katz-Freiman has written numerous articles, essays, and reviews addressing various issues in contemporary art. In 2012 she curated two major exhibitions: Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India for the new wing of the

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and UNNATURAL for the

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of Art, Miami Beach. She is a board member of AIRIE and a member of IKT and AICA/USA, the International Association of Art Critics.

Selected exhibitions

UNNATURAL,

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, Miami Beach
Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India (co-curated with Rotem Ruff),

Shelf Life (co-curated with Rotem Ruff),

Wild Exaggeration: The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art Kader Attia: Who Cares?, Haifa Museum of Art BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art (trilogy, part III) Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art (trilogy, part I) Fatamorgana: Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art (trilogy, part II) Love is in the Air – Time for Love: Images of Romantic Love in Contemporary Israeli Art, Time for Art: Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv OverCraft: Obsession, Decoration and Biting Beauty, The Art Gallery, Haifa University, Haifa, Artists House, Tel Aviv Time Capsule: Contemporary Art and Archaeology,

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, New York City Havana Nagila: Cuba-Israel Dialogue, Chelouche Gallery, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Julie M. Gallery, and the Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios
Mount Miami: American Artists in Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios Desert Cliché: Israel Now – Local Images (co-curated with Amy Cappellazzo), Arad Museum, Israel; Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel;

, Miami Beach, Florida;

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& Study Center of New York University; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta;

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, San Francisco Meta-Sex94: Identity, Body and Sexuality, Museum of Art,

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, Israel Antipathos: Black Humor, Irony and Cynicism in Contemporary Israeli Art,

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, Jerusalem Postscipts: “End” Representations in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University

Selected publications

Anthologies

Tami Katz-Freiman, "Master of Concealments: On the Traps of Appropriations in

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’ Work" in: The Beauty of Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Studies in Honour of Mordechai Omer, Assaph 2010, Studies in Art History, Vols. 13-14, Tel Aviv University, pp. 335–351 Tami Katz-Freiman, "Craftsmen in the Factory of Images," from BoysCraft in: The Craft Reader (edited by Glenn Adamson), Berg, Oxford, New York, 2010 pp. 596–605 Tami Katz-Freiman, "'Don’t Touch My Holocaust': Israeli Artists Challenging the

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Taboo", a paper for the International conference: Representing the Holocaust: Practices, Products, Projections, Berman Center of Jewish Studies, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania in: Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust, New York University Press Tami Katz-Freiman, "Bad Girls: The Israeli Version – Contemporary Women Artists in Israel," in: Jewish Feminism in Israel: Some Contemporary Perspectives (edited by Kaplana Misra and Malanie Rich), Brandeis University Press, New England

Selected essays

From Skins to Landscape: on Agustina Woodgate's Rug Collection, an essay for Agustina Woodgate: Rugs,

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From Body Politics to Conflict Politics:

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Come Out of the (Biography) Closet, an essay for Aziz + Cucher: Some People, The

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Critical Mass: Beyond Aesthetics (written with co-curator Rotem Ruff), an essay for Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India,

Nature Has No Copyright, an essay for UNNATURAL,

Collecting is a Form of Uprooting – An Encounter Between Self and Object, an essay for Shelf Life (co-curated with Rotem Ruff),

, Israel Exaggeration is Twice as Real, an essay for Wild Exaggeration: The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art Craftsmen in the Factory of Images, an essay for BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art The Road to Happiness: On Cultural Conflict, Desire, and Illusion in the Work of Kader Attia, an essay for Kader Attia's monography, Musee d’art contemporain, Lyon The Industry of Emotions / Or: I Feel, Therefore, I Am, an essay for Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art Fatamorgana: The Magic Lantern of Consciousness, an essay for Fatamorgana: Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art Dancing with Barbed Wire, an essay on Sigalit Landau for Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami Love is in the Air: Quick Introduction to Romantic Love, an essay for Love is in the Air, Time for Art: Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv OverCraft: The God of Small Details, an essay for OverCraft, The Art Gallery, Haifa University and Artists House, Tel Aviv A Matter of Distance, a catalogue essay for Desert Cliché: Israel Now – Local Images, Bass Museum, Miami Beach
Meta-Sex 94: Identity, Body and Sexuality, a catalogue essay for Meta-Sex 94, Museum of Art,

Antipathos: Black Humor, Irony and Cynicism in Contemporary Israeli Art, a catalogue essay for Antipathos, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem “Hastily the World Hastens to Pass Away…”, a catalogue essay for Postscripts: “End”- Representations in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University

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