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