Photographer and video artist Oded Hirsch was born on Kibbutz Afikim in the Jordan Valley and currently lives and works in New York.  Oded’s work is centered on the effects of ideology on collective and individual behaviors. He works primarily in video and photography and creates surreal mechanisms that consist of an independent set of rules and logic. He holds an MFA from the Pratt Institute in New York.  Solo exhibitions include Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York; EDS Galeria, Mexico City; and Ramat-Gan Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. Selected group exhibitions include MASS MoCA; Queens Museum of Art; The Jewish Museum in Munich; Black and White Gallery, New York;  Lesley Heller Workspace, New York; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin; and the Soap Factory, Minneapolis. Hirsch is a recent recipient of the Six Points Fellowship and a Jerome Foundation Film Grant. He is represented by Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York.

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For my epic videos, I recruit large groups of people to take part in staged artistic spectacles. I am interested in making people work together and be committed to a community collaborative art endeavor.   My process is not limited solely to the finished work; I am fascinated first and foremost by the social and communal endeavor itself. In the past 3 years I have been working on a trilogy of video sequences that explore the spirit of the small village (a Kibbutz) where I grew up in rural Israel.