Omer Gal
Education
San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA — MFA, 2012
Minshar School for Art, TLV, Israel — BA, 2009
Press
Solo and Duo Shows
Hide and Seek/תר אחר, Duo show, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 13-29/12/2018
Hilo Catskill Gallery, NY, 9/2018-11/2018
"Rescuing the Lost Imaginary", The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 6/2016
“Daddy’s on Fire”, Tmuna Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 4/2009
Group Shows
NY Shitty, group show, Con Artist Gallery, Manhattan, NYC 3/2/16
Sugar Rush, En Em Gallery, Sacramento, CA 12/2014
MAH museum of art and history, Everybody’s Ocean, Santa Cruz, CA 12/19/2014 – 4/19/2015
Surplus Space, Portland, OR 10/2014
Something completely different, City Limits, Oakland, CA 9/2014
Full Frame 1st Annual call for works in video, Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA 1-2/2014
Modern Panic IV, Guerilla Zoo, London, UK 6/2013
SOund and VideO show, The Lab, SF, CA 3/2013
New Genres show, Performance Art Institute, SF, CA 6/2012
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Thesis Show, Phoenix Hotel, SF, CA 5/2012
Colored Shadows w/Miles Ake, Luggage Store, SF, CA 4/2012
13 for 13, PSU, Portland, OR 2/2012
Naked Cave(performance/instillation), FlagStop, LA, CA 9/2011
Cookie is Inside, Swell Gallery, SF, CA 7/2011
Bad Drawing, Diego Rivera Gallery, SF, CA 4/2011
Residency
Lookout Arts Quarry Artist in Residence 7,8/2019
Performances
The Obelisk Dimension - Grace Exhibition Space 10/2020
Cookie Tongue - Asheville Fringe 1/2020
Cookie Tongue - Milton Art Bank Gallery, Milton, PA 2019
Shitheads Diaspora, NY Shitty, Manhattan, NYC 2016
Half Ghost Human Collective, artifice 3, at Torus Porta, Bushwick, BK, NYC 2016
Half Ghost Human Collective, artifice 2, at Tarot Society, Bushwick, BK, NYC 2015
Half Ghost Human Collective, artifice 1, at Circus of Dreams, Bushwick, BK, NYC 2015
Shitheads Diaspora, ongoing performance, performed at various venues in San Francisco, CA 2014
Removing a polyp from an outer galactic intestinal tunnel @ 100 performances for a hole, Somarts, San Francisco, CA 1/2014
The Lab Benefit, The Lab, SF, CA 11/2013
Psi 19, 100 performances for the hole redux, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 9/2013
Touch the Gear Expo@Outsound new music summit, Community music center,
San Francisco, CA, USA 7/2012
Pinyataphone, The Lab, SF, CA 9/2012
Colored Shadows w/Miles Ake, Luggage Store, SF, CA 4/2012
Be back in 1 minute, SomArts, SF, CA 12/2011
Be back in 5 minutes, Queens Nails Projects Gallery, SF, CA 8/2011
Animation
"Fae Rite Serum", Produced during artist in residence program at The Lookout Arts Quarry, WA, USA 2020 Official selection at:
Femmes Underground International Film Festival (LEFUFF) Los Angeles, CA, 2021
NEW CHITOSE 2020 Animation Festival, Japan
(currently being sent and awaiting selection at more festivals worldwide)
"Sap" screened at:
Guerrilla Zoo, London 2013
ATA theater, Other Cinema, SF, CA, USA 2013
Southern Exposure Gallery, SF, CA, USA 2013
The Lab,, SF, CA, USA 2013
EFF festival, Portland, Oregon 2014
“Shoreline” screened at:
Santa Cruz Museum of Art Jan.2014-April 2015
Images festival, Toronto, Canada 2010
Cortoons festival, Rome, Italy 2010
CCA Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2010
Asifa festival, Tel Aviv, Israel 2010
Haifa festival, Haifa, Israel 2010
“Rabbit Rabbit” screened at:
Nozstock festival, UK 2012
Barbur gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 2009
Awards:
Asheville Fringe Festival 2020 - Artists who experimented with sound the most: Cookie Tongue “Dream Seed Ceremony”
Asheville Fringe Festival 2021 - Artist(s) that challenged and/or pushed the boundaries between art forms: Cookie Tongue “Kaleidoscopic Bone House”
Music Videos and Documentary Film:
“Clowns & Grief & Dead Brothers”, Documentary collaboration in progress, Chapter 1 finished, 2019-current
Cookie Tongue Music Videos:
Graveyard Song, Dream Seed Ceremony, Grin, Snow Dress, Flame Feet, Remote Control, Red, Rubber Hard Thumb, 2015-current
“Just Like Me”, Irrevery 2017
Education
San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA — MFA, 2012
Minshar School for Art, TLV, Israel — BA, 2009
Press
Solo and Duo Shows
Hide and Seek/תר אחר, Duo show, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 13-29/12/2018
Hilo Catskill Gallery, NY, 9/2018-11/2018
"Rescuing the Lost Imaginary", The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 6/2016
“Daddy’s on Fire”, Tmuna Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 4/2009
Group Shows
NY Shitty, group show, Con Artist Gallery, Manhattan, NYC 3/2/16
Sugar Rush, En Em Gallery, Sacramento, CA 12/2014
MAH museum of art and history, Everybody’s Ocean, Santa Cruz, CA 12/19/2014 – 4/19/2015
Surplus Space, Portland, OR 10/2014
Something completely different, City Limits, Oakland, CA 9/2014
Full Frame 1st Annual call for works in video, Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA 1-2/2014
Modern Panic IV, Guerilla Zoo, London, UK 6/2013
SOund and VideO show, The Lab, SF, CA 3/2013
New Genres show, Performance Art Institute, SF, CA 6/2012
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Thesis Show, Phoenix Hotel, SF, CA 5/2012
Colored Shadows w/Miles Ake, Luggage Store, SF, CA 4/2012
13 for 13, PSU, Portland, OR 2/2012
Naked Cave(performance/instillation), FlagStop, LA, CA 9/2011
Cookie is Inside, Swell Gallery, SF, CA 7/2011
Bad Drawing, Diego Rivera Gallery, SF, CA 4/2011
Residency
Lookout Arts Quarry Artist in Residence 7,8/2019
Performances
The Obelisk Dimension - Grace Exhibition Space 10/2020
Cookie Tongue - Asheville Fringe 1/2020
Cookie Tongue - Milton Art Bank Gallery, Milton, PA 2019
Shitheads Diaspora, NY Shitty, Manhattan, NYC 2016
Half Ghost Human Collective, artifice 3, at Torus Porta, Bushwick, BK, NYC 2016
Half Ghost Human Collective, artifice 2, at Tarot Society, Bushwick, BK, NYC 2015
Half Ghost Human Collective, artifice 1, at Circus of Dreams, Bushwick, BK, NYC 2015
Shitheads Diaspora, ongoing performance, performed at various venues in San Francisco, CA 2014
Removing a polyp from an outer galactic intestinal tunnel @ 100 performances for a hole, Somarts, San Francisco, CA 1/2014
The Lab Benefit, The Lab, SF, CA 11/2013
Psi 19, 100 performances for the hole redux, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 9/2013
Touch the Gear Expo@Outsound new music summit, Community music center,
San Francisco, CA, USA 7/2012
Pinyataphone, The Lab, SF, CA 9/2012
Colored Shadows w/Miles Ake, Luggage Store, SF, CA 4/2012
Be back in 1 minute, SomArts, SF, CA 12/2011
Be back in 5 minutes, Queens Nails Projects Gallery, SF, CA 8/2011
Animation
"Fae Rite Serum", Produced during artist in residence program at The Lookout Arts Quarry, WA, USA 2020 Official selection at:
Femmes Underground International Film Festival (LEFUFF) Los Angeles, CA, 2021
NEW CHITOSE 2020 Animation Festival, Japan
(currently being sent and awaiting selection at more festivals worldwide)
"Sap" screened at:
Guerrilla Zoo, London 2013
ATA theater, Other Cinema, SF, CA, USA 2013
Southern Exposure Gallery, SF, CA, USA 2013
The Lab,, SF, CA, USA 2013
EFF festival, Portland, Oregon 2014
“Shoreline” screened at:
Santa Cruz Museum of Art Jan.2014-April 2015
Images festival, Toronto, Canada 2010
Cortoons festival, Rome, Italy 2010
CCA Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2010
Asifa festival, Tel Aviv, Israel 2010
Haifa festival, Haifa, Israel 2010
“Rabbit Rabbit” screened at:
Nozstock festival, UK 2012
Barbur gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 2009
Awards:
Asheville Fringe Festival 2020 - Artists who experimented with sound the most: Cookie Tongue “Dream Seed Ceremony”
Asheville Fringe Festival 2021 - Artist(s) that challenged and/or pushed the boundaries between art forms: Cookie Tongue “Kaleidoscopic Bone House”
Music Videos and Documentary Film:
“Clowns & Grief & Dead Brothers”, Documentary collaboration in progress, Chapter 1 finished, 2019-current
Cookie Tongue Music Videos:
Graveyard Song, Dream Seed Ceremony, Grin, Snow Dress, Flame Feet, Remote Control, Red, Rubber Hard Thumb, 2015-current
“Just Like Me”, Irrevery 2017