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Born: Vilnius, Lithuania

As of August 2024, shares his life between Lisbon and Tel-Aviv

Solo Exhibitons

2023    Reliquarium, ArtSpace TLV, curator: Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, book, Tel-Aviv

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022    Distance, Indie photography gallery, Tel-Aviv, curators Keren Zaltz & Etty Schwartz 

2022    Beyond the corner, Artist's House gallery, Modiin, curator Gaby Yair

2020   Dive Project, Art Museum M, Leuven, Belgium

2020   Social Distancing, Arrival Room gallery, Saarbrücken, Germany

2019     Local Testimony, Tel-Aviv Muza Museum, Tel-Aviv, curator Eldad Rafaeli, catalog

Work in Collections

Reliquarium | Permanent Collection, The Museum of Avant-garde, Mendrisio, Switzerland

Publications & Awards

2024    Finalist, The Museum of Avant-garde, Mendrisio, Switzerland

2023    Gold Award, Analog sparks - Books & Zines 

2023    Tel Aviv University - Urban design lab (Hebrew), book review (September 2023) 

2023    C4 Journal, book review (July 2023), UK

2023    Intl Ntwk Museums of Peace magazine, Issue #38, book review, p29-30, (February 2023), Japan

2022    Haaretz Israeli daily, Photoblog (April 6th, 2022)

2021     Black River Magazine, Issue #01, (January 2021), UK

2020    Not Random Art magazine, an interview, p28-33, (November 2020)

2020    F-Stop Magazine, Issue #103, documentary, (October 2020), Chicago

2020    Art Connect magazine, Unobtainable rest, (June 2020), Berlin

2020    Ideas Block gallery, Unobtainable rest, (April 2020), Vilnius

2020    European Photography magazine, Issue #106, (January 2020), Berlin

2020    Social Art Award publication, Institute for Arts and Innovation, Berlin

2019     Haaretz Israeli daily, Arts Section, an interview (Dec.18, 2019)

Education

Autodidact         

Self taught with personal tutoring by an art curator and a prominent fine art photographer,

both from the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem, Israel.

Contact 

david(dot)leshem(at)gmail(dot)com

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