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Noa Yafe

Born 1978 in Israel, lives and works in Tel Aviv.


Noa Yafe received her BFA from HaMidrasha School of Art at Beit Berl, where she also completed her post-graduate studies in 2012. Her solo exhibitions include venues such as Herzliya Museum, CCA Tel Aviv, MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam), and RawArt Gallery in Tel Aviv. Yafe's works have been exhibited in various group exhibitions around the world, among them the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Tel Aviv University Gallery, Primary Projects in Miami, Artists' House in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Artists' Studios, Hamidrasha Gallery in Tel Aviv, Bat Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, Minshar Gallery in Tel Aviv, and Paint Box Gallery in New York. Yafe is the recipient of several scholarships and awards, including the Artis grant and the Young Artist Scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Her works can be found in public and private collections, including those of the Israel Museum and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. An artist book, edited by Joshua Simon, published by Mousse Publishing.

Education

2010-2012 Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl

2004-2006 BFA, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl

2003-2004, School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York


Solo Exhibitions

2022 Exodus, Beyond Somewhere, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel, curated by: Sally Haftel Naveh

2021-2022 White Feather, RawArt gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger

2019 Revulsion, Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv

2018 Beyond the Distance - A Distance, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Leah Abir

2017 The Red Star (part of "The Kids Want Communism), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2017 The Perfect Crime, CCA, Tel Aviv

2016 The Shadow, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Leah Abir

2016 The Red Star (part of 'The Kids Want Communism'), MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam, Bat Yam

2012 Midaya, Bat Yam Museum, Bat Yam, Graduate Exhibition

2007 Pudding, D&A Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Tel Aviv


Group Exhibitions

2023 Al Halal, Bat Yam Museum of Art, Bat Yam, curated by: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman

2023 Silver Linings, Sommer Gallery, curated by: Naama Arad and Omer Halpering

2023 Silver Linings, Sommer, curated by: Naama Arad and Omer Halperin

2022 Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Kunst Haus Wien, Hamburg, Germany, curated by: Boaz Levin and Esther Ruelfs

2021 .Dori, Loving Art. Making Art, Mesila Park, Tel Aviv, curated by: Omer Sheizaf, Yoav Weinfeld

2020 Shutters and Stairs, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, curated by: Aya Miron

2020 Dissidents, Fountain, Tel Aviv, curated by: Guy Assif, Ahal Eden, Moshe Yamo

2019 Impersonating Myself / Becoming Myself, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, curated by: Shoshan Brosh-Vaitz and Zhang Fang

2019 Raw Art, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger

2018 Nightfall, Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv, curated by: Jasmin Vardi and Lia Tzigler

2018 Collection Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

2018 Collection Exhibition, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2017 Cats and Dogs, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2017 The Kids Want Communism, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, curated by: Joshua Simon

2016 The Kids Want Communism, MoBY, Bat Yam

2014 Crop, Artists Studios, Jerusalem

2014 Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv

2013 Goods, MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam, Bat Yam

2012 Salon de Notre Societe, Primary Projects Gallery, Miami, Florida

2012 The Big Mezonith, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv

2011 Monkeys, Nine People, Allenby Passage, Tel Aviv

2010 After Sunrise, 39 Gallery, Tel Aviv

2009 D.Z 34, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv

2008 Close to Home, Bat Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism

2007 Engine, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv

2007 Pornography, My Love, Beit Ha`amanim, Tel Aviv

2007 Artic 9, Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv

2005 From the Heart, Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv

2004 Down, Paint Box Gallery, New York City, New York


Grants & Awards

2017 Project Grant, Artis

2017 Catalogue Grant, Mifal HaPais (Israeli Lottery Council for Culture)

2017 Catalogue Grant, Rabinovich Foundation

2011 The Igal Zak Honorary Grant, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl

2009 Honorable Mention of the International Photography Awards,

2006-2007 Young Artist Scholarship, Keren Sharet, America Israel Cultural Foundation


Residencies & Fellowships

2021 Artist Incubators, Mifal HaPais, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

2013 Cite des Arts, Paris, France


Press

2024 Naama Riba, Not fewer than 28 sculptures have joined Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Haaretz, 21/07/24, (Heb)

2024 Yakir Segev, Beacon in Savidor and Pola on Ben-Gurion - Tel Aviv Sculpture Exhibition, Calcalist, 17/03/24, (Heb)

2022 Avi Pitchon, I entered the exhibition and forgot from Herzliya, Israel, Earth. This is a great and glorious victory, Haaretz, 15/12/22, (Heb)

2022 Avi Pitchon, master illusionist of film noir and late capitalism, became a Zen priestess, Haaretz, 06/01/22

2022 Inbal Cohen Hamo, Noa Yafe: If my previous exhibitions were like a strong drink, then this exhibition is like mineral water, Portfolio, 29/01/22, (Heb)

2021 Shiraz Grinbaum, Beyond The Distance – A Distance(Interview), Leafing - A magazine for books that are art, 02/21, (Heb)

2019 Ouzi Zur, A review of Noa Yafe's solo exhibition Revulsion, Haaretz, 30/04/19, (Heb)

2019 Joshua Simon, The Soviet Cosmos and Noa Yafe’s Red Star, Espace, (Eng)

2018 Joshua Simon, On Metastability: Minimum Points of Contact and Maximum Intensity - Interview with Joshua Simon, Mousse Magazine, 2018, (Eng)

2017 Shaul Setter, The installation on 'the perfect crime' is a bit too perfect, Haaretz, 20/02/17, (Heb)

2017 Dana Gilerman, Who is the murderer?, Yedioth Ahronoth, 24/02/17, (Heb)

2016 Avi Pitchon, Cast a Giant Shadow, Haaretz, 05/10/16, (Heb)

2016 Sharon Kantor, Noa Yafe featured her mother's prosthetic eye in the new exhibition, Timeout, 21/12/16, (Heb)


Publications by the Artist

2020 Beyond the Distance - A Distance, Mousse Publishing, (EN)



Collections

Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Private collections