Alina Orlov

Alina Orlov is an artist and filmmaker, who has presented work at MOMA Doc Fortnight, Locarno Film Festival, and other international festivals, galleries, and museums.

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Festivals

2025: MoMA Doc Fortnight, Doc Fortnight Shorts 1: Abstraction as Apprehension, NYC, USA
2025: International Filmfest Bremen, Fears – Innovation Shorts #3, Bremen, Germany
2025: COSMIC RAYS Film Festival, Program 2: Night Music, NC, USA
2025: Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias, Animation section, Cartagena, Colombia
2024: Portland EcoFilm Festival, OR, USA
2024: Locarno Film Festival, Pardi di Domani: Concorso Internazionale, Locarno, Switzerland
2024: Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, CA
2024: FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2024: Antimatter [media art], Victoria, CA

Selected Solo and Dual Exhibitions

2022: I Set Frank Barcelona on Fire, House of Artists, Herzliya, Israel (Curated by: Ran Kasmy Ilan)
2021: I Set Frank Barcelona on Fire, Nouvelle Vague Art Spaces, Spain (Curated by: Camilla Farman Farmaian)
2019: Ballroom, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curated by: Maya Frenkel Tene)
2019: Forest of Ornaments, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA (Curated by: Constanza Mendoza & Shannon Hebert Waldman)
2018: J’accuse, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curated by: Keren Goldberg)
2018: Ponchik, Artist Wall, Art Cube Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem (with Shir Choen)
2017: J’accuse, Artim Gallery, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan (Curated by: Anna Fech)
2016: Not Working, Maze 9 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016: Yahel, Tel Aviv, Israel

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024: The Oracle and The Fool, Performance, Galerie Historischer Keller, Zitadelle Museen'Ausstellungen, Berlin, Germany (Curated by: Julien Rathje)
2023: Mother Mold, Gallery 51: Multidisciplinary Art Center, Modi'in, Israel (Curated by: Hadassa Cohen)
2023: The Tel Aviv Biennale of Art & Design, MUZA - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curated by: Henrietta Eliezer Brunnerg)
2023: Gladea, Hacubia, Jerusalem
2023: I Set Frank Barcelona on Fire, ‘Glass, Meet the Future’ (GMTF) film festival, Shanghai Museum of Glass and North Lands Creative
2022: Das Fernglas, digital exhibition
2021: Last Flowers of XX Century: Generation Y, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan (Curated by: Farah Alakbarli)
2021: Beauty Salon, Gallery 51: Multidisciplinary Art Center, Modi'in, Israel
2020: Spoon of Sand, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, USA
2020: Wandering Domains, Emuna Gallery, Manomfim Festival, Jerusalem (Curated by: Hadassa Cohen)
2020: In the Age of Quarantine, digital exhibition, SnarkArt, Brooklyn, NY, USA (Curated by Nadia Taiga)
2018: An Accident is Never Over, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, USA (Curated by: Tirtza Evan)
2018: New Blood, performance festival, Links Hall, Chicago, USA (Curated by: Máire Witt O'Neill)
2018: Fresh Paint 10, art fair, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curated by: Raz Shapira)
2017: Bread and Roses, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017: Hypernormalization, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv (Curated by: Hadassa Cohen)
2017: Aesthetics and Bias, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Poznań, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland
2015: Tsytsa Maritsa, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel (Curated by: Jossef Krispel)
2015: Group Show, Intermedia Department, Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland (Curated by: Adina Bar-On)
2015: Bread and Roses, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014: Group Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Museum Collections

2023: MUZA - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Residencies

2023: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vt, USA
2022: Yodfat cafe, House of Artists, Herzliya, Israel
2021: SPAR Virtual studio, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019: OxBow residency, Michigan, USA
2017: Yarat residency, Baku, Azerbaijan

Selected Press

2024: The Cavalry Review: On Horses, Totems, and the Cost of Power, POV Magazine by Mike Hoolboom
2024: The Cavalry, Review, DMovies, by Victoria Luxford
2024: The Calvary review, Film Threat, by Alan Ng
2024: 'The Cavalry' Review: Spotlighting Israeli Police Horses Through Video Art, Cinemacy, By Morgan Rojas
2024: LOCARNO 2024: PUNTER, THE CAVALRY Y SOLEIL GRIS, Desistfilm
2023: 10 Questions with Alina Orlov, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary, by: Carlotta Mazzoli
2022: I set Frank Barcelona on Fire, review, Galeria, Haaretz, by Gilad Melzer
2021: Last Flowers of the 20th Century: Generation Y, e-flux
2018: "9 Young Artists Worth Keeping an Eye On," Time Out magazine, by Nadav Noyman
2018: Fresh Paint 10, The Window, by Smadar Sheffi
2018: Fresh Paint 10, radio interview, Reka radio station, by Lena Russovsky
2018: J’accuse, preview in Galeria, Haaretz, by Eitan Buganim
2018: J’accuse, preview in Hamekomon, by Meital Sharabi
2017: Hypernormalization, review in Yediot Aharonot, by Dana Gilerman
2017: Hypernormalization, preview in Galeria, Haaretz, by Eitan Buganim
2016: Yahel, Alina Orlov Opening, preview, City Mouse
2015: The Bad Girls of Betzalel BFA Final Show, review, Galeria, Haaretz, by Galia Yahav

Education

2020: MFA, Film, Video, New Media and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2015: BFA with honors, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2014: Student exchange, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Awards and Grants

2023: VSC Grant, Vermont Studio Center, residency grant
2022: The Foundation for Independent Creators
2019: SAIC Incentive School, SAIC Scholarship
2018: Ream Foundation, Graduate Merit Scholarship
2015: Department prize, BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, graduated with honors

Non-Degree Education

2016 — 2023: Dr. Boris Speizman Glass Blowing Master Class, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 — 2021: Glass blowing, ArtReach Chicago, USA
2017 — 2018: Zilumbaam, professional photography studying, Tel Aviv, Israel