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Uri Katzenstein
אורי קצנשטיין
Uri Katzenstein, born 1951, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s, and after receiving his MFA moved to New York City where he lived and worked throughout the eighties. His early performance work was regularly presented at such legendary performance venues as The Kitchen, No-Se-No, 8BC and Danceteria. His work in sculpture, video and installation have been exhibited in museums such as The Russian State Museum (St. Petersburg), The Chelsea Art Museum (New York), Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, The Israel Museum, Duke University Museum of Art (North Carolina). Katzenstein participated in the Sao Paulo Bienal (1991), the Venice Biennale (2001), the Buenos Aires Bienal (first prize, 2002), and the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005). His performance work was shown in theatres and galleries in London, Berlin, San Francisco, Cardiff (Wales), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), New York, and Tel Aviv. Uri Katzenstein is based in Tel Aviv and teaches at the University of Haifa, Department of Fine Art
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