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Rakefet Viner Omer
Rakefet Viner-Omer רקפת וינר-עומר
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Education
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
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
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
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: curator Sagi Refael
2011 Miron Sima Prize Exhibition, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2010 Ha’peh shel Hagveret Noon (Mrs. Noon’s Mouth), Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv: curator Yael Kayani
2010 A Happy New Year, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Haverim Dimioni’im (Imaginary Friends), art workshops, Tel Aviv (accompanied by workbook)
2007 Do You Think Art Should Be So Direct? Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod: curator Raya Zommer
2003 Kidai Le’isha Lesarev Lalecht Lemokomot (Women Must Refuse to Go to Work), Salon Mazal, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
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 & Le 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
2020 Fluidity Mechanics, Menahem Gutman Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Monica Lava
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 & Fourth Year Students
2020 Outside of the Box, Old Jaffa (Mazal Dagim), Tel Aviv- Jaffa, curated by: Liav Mizrahi
2020 Internally: Emotional Landscapes From Israel, UCS Hille Art Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by: Sagi Refael
2019 Crimes and Minor Felonies, The Artists' House, Tel Aviv, curated by: Nitza Peri
2019 Large Painting of Worried Women, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Rakefet Viner Omer & Shira Gepstein Moshvkovitzz
2019 Out of the Box 1, Old Jaffa (Mazal Dagim, Tel Aviv Jaffa, curated by: Liav Mizrachi & Yale Rozin
2018 70, 70, 70, Santa Barbara Gallery, USA, curated by: Carmit Blumenzon
2017 Handkerchief and Powder, Nulobaz Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Rakefet Viner Omer & Hagit Unamni Rubenstein
2016 Nordart, Nordart- The Israeli Pavilion, Germany, curated by: Carmity
2015 Bones Brigade: Works from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection. Curator, 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. Curator, Ruth Direktor
The Readymade Centennial, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa. Curator, 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, print workshop, Jerusalem: Curator, Naomi Tannhauser
2010 Small Adults, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv: Curator, Sagi Refael
Longing, Bait Banamal, Tel Aviv: curator Dana Gillerman
Decadence, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Projects Room, Tel Aviv: Curator, Sagi Refael
Longing, Israel-Spain Video Anthology, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators, Javier Garcia Puerto
and Arie Franko
Intermediate Station, Four Artists, Hatahana, Tel Aviv: Curator, Sagi Refael
2009 My Camp, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv: curator, Liav Mizrahi
Wild Exaggeration: The Grotesque Body in Present-Day Art, Haifa Museum of Art: Curator, Tami Katz Freeman
For Sale, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv
Sex/Logy, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv: curator Sari Golan
Cockeye - Male Nude in Contemporary Israeli Art, Gal-On Art Space, Tel Aviv: Curator, Sagi Refael
Factory, Ben Ari Museum of Art, Bat Yam: Curators, Milana Gitzin Adiram and Leah Abir
2008 Winners, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Art and Design Award, Museum of Art, Ein Harod: Curator, Galia Bar-Or
Art of Emergency, Artneuland, Berlin
Sh’lo Nida (God Forbid), Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv: curator Ben Tzur
2008 Night and Day, Gilit Fisher Gallery, Tel Aviv: Curator, Gilit Fisher
2007 Under the Sun, Gilit Fisher Gallery, Tel Aviv: Curator, Gilit Fisher
The Arches of Southwark, Act Art Festival, London: Curators, 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: Curator, Effi Gen
Prostitutes, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv: Curator, Doron Rabina
2004 Omanut Ha’aretz (Art of the Land), Reading Power Station, Tel Aviv: Curator, Ruti Direktor
2003 Omanut Ha’aretz (Art of the Land), Reading Power Station, Tel Aviv: Curator, Ruti Direktor
2000 International Biennale of Art, Nîmes, France
1999 Aryeh Aroch (A Long Lion), Peer-Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv: Curator, Guy Ben Ner
Publications
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