Rona Yefman is working in photography, video, and installation. 
Her work explores issues of identity through a range of human experiences by collaborating with individuals who have formed a radical persona that inscribes the iconic and the absurd of our time. 
She received her MFA from Columbia University in New York City, BFA from Bezalel Academy for Art & Design, Jerusalem and post Graduate program of Bezalel Academy, Tel-Aviv. 
Recent solo shows were held at Oslo Kunstforening, Norway, SIC Gallery, Helsinki, Finland; Sommer Gallery Tel-Aviv, Derek Eller Gallery, The Sculpture Center, and Participant Inc, NYC. Those shows have been reviewed in Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, Modern Painters, and Bomb Magazine. In 2016, Rona’s first artist book, Let it Bleed was published by Little Big Man Books, CA.
Selected group exhibitions include Invisible-Exports, NY; La Mep Museum, Paris; The Jewish Museum, NY; The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, NC; The Neuberger Museum, NY; MOCA Cleveland OH; Kunsthala Wein, Austria; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and Museum Marco Vigo, Spain. Awards include The Rema Hort Mann Scholarship, Gerard Levy Prize for a young photographer by the Israel Museum, The Ingeborg Bachmann Scholarship established by Anselm for The Wolf Foundation, the Young Artist and New Creation prize by the Minister of Culture, Israel . 
                    

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Born in Jerusalem 1976.

B.F.A. program at The Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem in 2002 (with Hons)

2005  M.F.A program at Goldsmiths, London

Since 2006 Israeli teaches painting at the Fine Arts Department of Bezalel.

She also teached at Minshar School of Art, Basis Art School, Shankar Collage for Engineering and more.

Among Israeli's solo exhibitions: Black Light, Maya Galley, Tel-Aviv;

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Ralli Museum Caesarea;

D'une forte mer à une faille géologique, Taylor Foundation, Paris;

Moledet 1B ,Ashdod Art Museum;

Generation Three, Feinberg Projects, Tel-Aviv;

Last City, at the Tavi Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv;

Bio Power at the Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv;

Selected group exhibitions at :Haifa Museum, Haifa; Kav 16 Gallery, Tel-aviv; Gallery 39, Tel-Aviv;  Art Forum, Berlin; FA Projects, London; Hanngar Bicocca, Milano; Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod; Feinberg Projects, Tel-Aviv; Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi'n;  Zemack Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Alon Segev Gallery,  Tel-Aviv;  Winzavod - Moscow Contemporary Art Center, Moscow; The Artists’ Studio, Tel-Aviv; Ramat-Gan Museum;  Minshar for Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Gallery, Fresh Paint art Fair, Tel-Aviv; Noga Gallery, Tel-Aviv.

Israeli  also curated painting exhibitions for young artists.

Israeli has received various awards and stipends, including: The Rabinovich Foundation;The Mifal HaPayis support; The Asylum Arts, New York; Erasmus; The Taylor Foundation, Paris; The Bezalel's Achievement award; The Artists Residence Herzliya; Lauren & Mitchell Presser studio stipend; The Sharet Award for young artists by the America -Israel Cultural Foundation; M.F.A fund from the AIA London; and was shortlisted to the Celeste Art Prize.

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