Born 1974 karenrusso@bezeqint.net   Education     1994- 1998 Graduated with distinction B.A studies in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem   Teaching     2003- 2002 Teaches "Art & Alchemy" at the "Bezalel Academy of Art & Design", Jerusalem     2003- 2000 Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University art faculty     Selected Solo Exhibitions     2001 Joint 4 - A Doll’s House, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem     2000 Spontaneous Human Combustion, Herzliya Museum, Israel     Selected Group Exhibitions     2004 Etude pour un Premier Amour, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv Frigid, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv     2003 works from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection The 20th Film Festival, Jerusalem Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Curator: Katharina Campino Video Invitational, FA Projects, London. Curator: J.J. Charlesworth Video Zone, Herzliya Museum. Curator: Dalia Levin Video Works, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv     2002 Parallel Worlds, K&S gallery, Berlin, Curator: Miriam Bers The 35th Year, Plonit Gallery, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv America Israel Cultural Foundation awards, Tel Aviv University Gallery Where are the Children, Givon Gallery, Tel-Aviv Special for Studio, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel-Aviv Drawings Tel-Aviv Artist’s Studios”, Tel-Aviv     2001 Narrative and Other Tales, Haifa Museum of Art Video Works, Bezalel Academy Gallery, Tel-Aviv Ministry of Science Art & Sport awards exhibition, Ramat-Gan Museum Erection - Pe’er gallery, Tel-Aviv     2000 Regarding Rafi - Nufar Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel     1998 Les Fous du Roi, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nimes, Nimes, France Not to be looked At, Le Miroir, Marseille, France   Publications     Books- Encyclopedia Thermica, Prose, theory & images, Omanut La'am Press, 324 p, 2004 Hamidrasha 4 – Artist’s texts, page 59-90, Babel Publishing, 2001 Corresponding editor for Contemporary magazine, London.   Selected Bibliography     Rona Segal, Rotten Priest, Profile & Interview, Hair Newspaper, p'-52-54, 24.6.04 Efrat Shalem, And the Devil was an Angel, Studio Art Magazine, no’ 114, Cover, interview & a Special work Sarit Shapira, Dolls House - , catalog, the Israel Museum Publishing, 2001 Ilana Tenenbaum, Narrative and Other Tales, Haifa Museum of Art Publications, 2002 Juan S. Froutchmann, De un pais en llamas, La Luna newspaper, 4.10.2002 Elad Keinan, Voodoo, Will-o’-the-Wisps and an Alchemical Wedding, 42 degrees Magazine, issue no' 6, 2000 Shimon Adaf, Caution, Landslide Ahead (This is a Metaphor), Maariv newspaper, Nov’ 1999     Awards and Residencies     2004 Delfina Studios, London 2002 Givon prize (Tel-Aviv Museum of modern Art) Bertelsmann Foundation 2000 Ministry of Science Culture & Sport award for a young artist America Israel Cultural Foundation 1998 Elhanani award (first excellence prize for a “Bezalel” graduate)