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Rakefet Viner-Omer   רקפת וינר-עומר

Lives and works in Tel Aviv

 

RVO.ART@gmail.com 

 

Education

2017-2020 lecturer at Sapir college2005-2007      

2005-2007 MFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv

2001                Conceptual History and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University

1996-2000       Art studies, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College

1990-1993       Art therapy, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College

1986-1990       BA in Psychology and Cinema, Tel Aviv University

 

Awards and Grants

2024                 Miffal HaPais Grant For New Catalog

2023                 Rabinovich Foundation Grant For New Project

2010                 Miron Sima Visual Arts Award, Artists’ House Jerusalem (Judges Committee : Amitai  Mendelsohn, Galia Bar-Or, Alex Kremer)

2008                 The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport Award

 

Solo Exhibitions

2025                Etchings by R.V.O and bending angel Sapir College Gallery, Sderot, Israel. Curated by: Smadar Levy 

2025                Thick Milk , Rawart Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. ​Curated by: Hila Cohen Schneiderman (Catalog)

2022                Golden Sweat, Rawart Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by: Shlomit Breuer (Catalog)

2019                Supermarket (due show), Nolobaz Gallery Pavilion, Stockholm, Sweden

2018                Buses at Sea, The New Gallery Artists‘ studios Teddi, Jerusalem, Israel. Curated by: ​Tamar - Gispan Greenberg

2017                Jeff And Dad, Nulobaz Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Sharon Fadida

2017                Tomorrow we’ll eat vegetables, I.A.I.L.A, Los Angeles, U.S. Curated by: Sagi Refael

2014                Hand & Tongue,  Feinberg Projects | Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Yham Hameiri

2013                Bell Jar, Feinberg Projects | Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Yham Hameiri

2011                dlot uoy os, Tavi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Sagi Refael

2011                Miron Sima Prize Exhibition, Artists’ House, Jerusalem. Curated by: Ruth zadka

2010                Ha’peh shel Hagveret Noon (Mrs. Noon’s Mouth), Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Yael Kayani

2010                A Happy New Year, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv

2009                Haverim Dimioni’im , Arists’ workshops, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Vered Zafran Gani (accompanied by artist book)

2007                Do You Think Art Should Be So Direct? Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod. Curated by: Raya Zommer 

2003                Kidai Le’isha Lesarev Lalecht Lemokomot (Women Must Refuse to Go to Work), Salon Mazal, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Orly Malca

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025                Ad meah v'esrim (due with Assi Meshullam), Nolobaz Gallery ,Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by: Shlomit Breuer

2024               Somebody Answer Our Messages Already, The Refrigerator, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by: Batia Holin and Moshe Ash.

2023               The Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm, Stockholm

2023               To the Hole, Nulubaz, Tel Aviv

2023               Umm al-Fahem. Curated by: Carmel Goffer

2023               Skin Teeth (due with Talia Israeli), Nulubaz. Curated by: Eitan Buganim

2022               Curse, The Artists' House Rishon LeTziyon, Rishon LeTziyon. Curated by: Hagit Unamni Rubinstein

2021               Sub Culture, LGBTQ Center Gan Meir , Demolition Festival. Curated by: Oz Mall & Lea Mizrahi

2021               Outside of the Box 3, Old Jaffa (Mazal Dagim), Tel Aviv. Curated by: Ido Cohen

2021                Are There Prophets in Their Home Town, Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery, Rehovot. Curated by: Keren Weisshaus

2020               50 Shades of Yellow, Hazul Gallery, Netanya. Curated by: Guy Morag

2020               Garden of three, Nulobaz gallery, Tel Aviv, cooperative curation

2020               Fluidity Mechanics, Menahem Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Monica Lavie

2020               In Her Incarnations, Jerusalem Print Workshop. Curated by: Irena Gordon

2020               The Sky Fell On Me, Sapir College Gallery. Curated by: Dr. Ziva Yalin and forth years students

2020               Outside Of The Box 2, Old Jaffa (Mazal Dagim). Curated by: Liav Mizrahi

2020                Internally: Emotional Landscapes from Israel, Ucs Hille art Gallery, L.A. Curated by: Sagi Refael

2019                Crimes and minor felonies, The artist’s house, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Nizta Peri

2019                Large Painting Of Worried women, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Rakefet Viner Omer and Shira Gepstien Moshkovitzvitzz

2019                Outside Of The Box 1, Old Jaffa (Mazal Dagim). Curated by: Liav Mizrahi and Yale Rozin

2018                70.70.70, Santa Barbara Gallery, USA. Curated by: Sagi Refael

2017               Handkerchief and powder, Nulobaz gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Rakefet Viner Omer, Efrat Rubinstein and Adva Drory

2016                Nordart- the Israeli Pavilion, Germany. Curated by: Carmit Blumenzon

2015                Bones Brigade: Works from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection. Curated by: Shai Dobjinsky

                        Midday Summer Dream,  Feinberg Projects | Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Yham Hameiri

2013                The Chicago Triangle,  Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa. Curated by: Ruth Direktor

                        The Readymade Centennial, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa. Curated by: Ruth Direktor

2012               Transmission, Kassel Industrial Park, Germany

                        Home Exhibition – Curator, Meir Sidi

                        Salon Talks, Alharizi Artists’  House

                        Handicraft Artisans – group exhibition

2011                Crimson Peels,  Jerusalem print workshop. Curated by: Naomi Tannhauser and Irena Gordon

2010                Small Adults, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curated by: Sagi Refael

                        Longing, Bait Banamal, Tel Aviv, Curated by: Dana Gillerman

                        Decadence, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Projects Room, Tel Aviv.  Curated by: Sagi Refael

                        Longing, Israel-Spain Video Anthology, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Javier Garcia Puerto and Arie Franko

                        Intermediate Station,Four Artists, Hatahana, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Sagi Refael

2009                My Camp, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Liav Mizrahi

                        Wild Exaggeration, The Grotesque Body in Present-Day Art, Haifa Museum of Art. Curated by: Tami Katz Freeman

                        Sex/Logy, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Sari Golan

                        Cockeye - Male Nude in Contemporary Israeli Art, Gal-On Art Space, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Sagi Refael

                        Factory, , Ben Ari Museum of Art, Bat Yam. Curated by: Milana Gitzin Adiram and Leah Abir

2008                Winners, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Art and Design Award, Museum of Art, Ein Harod. Curated by:  Galia Bar-Or

                        Art of Emergency, Artneuland, Berlin

                        Sh’lo Nida (God Forbid), Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Ben Tzur

2008                Night and Day, Gilit Fisher Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Gilit Fisher

2007                Under the Sun, Gilit Fisher Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Gilit Fisher

                        The Arches of Southwark, Act Art Festival, London. Curated by: Oliver Frost and Mark Massive

                        007, MFA graduation show, Continuing Arts Studies, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv

2005                Wounds and Bandages, Umm Al-Fahm Gallery. Curated by: Effi Gen

                        Prostitutes, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Doron Rabina

2003                Omanut Ha’aretz (Art of the Land), Reading Power Station, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Ruti Direktor

2000                International Biennale of Art, Nîmes, France

1999                Aryeh Aroch (A Long Lion), Peer-Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by: Guy Ben Ner

Publications

​2025                Skeleton, engravings book, Editor: Shlomit Breuer

2022                Golden Sweat Exhibition Catalogue, Tel Aviv, Curated by Shlomit Breuer, Texts by Shlomit Breuer and Anat Mandil

2011                 doit ouy os, Tavi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

2009                 Imaginary Friends, Artists' Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv

2009                 miss.us art journal, “The New and the Bad” issue

2007                 Journal of Hamidrasha School of Art, Hamidrasha 10, “Feminism and Israeli Art”: Editor, Einat Amir

2005                 Do You Think Art Should Exist? Ein Hod Museum of Art

2001                 Journal of Hamidrasha School of Art, Hamidrasha 10, “Art/Text, Young Artists Write”: Editor, Naomi Simantov

Collections

Israel Museum Collection

Haaretz Art Collection

Museum of Art Ein-Harod Collection

Bank Leumi Collection

Serge Tiroche Collection

Mitchell Presser Collection

private collections

 

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