Yaara Oren
Born 1982, Israel
Education
2009: B.A. “Hamidrasha School of Arts”, Beit Berl, Israel
Awards and Scholarships
2021: Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for The Arts scholarship
2018: Winner of the Osnat Mozes Young Artists Painting prize
2015: Artis, Artport & Asylum Arts - Artist Career Development Program
2009: Excellence in Art Scholarship, Hamidrasha Art School, Beit Berl
Solo Exhibitions
2025: "Quilt", The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva, Israel.
Curator: Ron Bartos
2025: "Sensible Wishes", Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Smadar Shindler
2025: "Sensible Wishes", The Gallery for Israeli Art at the Tivon Memorial Center,
Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
Curator: Michal Shachnai
2022:"Names and other Paintings", ALMA, Home for Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Ron Bartos
2021: "Together with the sun", Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Ofra Harnam
2018: "Blinds", The Jerusalem Artist House, House, Jerusalem, Israel
Curator: Nogah Davidson
2016: “Garden Wall”, Rosenbach Contemporary Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
2014: "Exotica Park", Kibutz Rosh Ha'nikra Gallery, Rosh Ha'nikra, Israel.
Curators: Yuri Katz & Asia Dublin
2013: "Carnival Dream Cruise", Ha'Agaf Gallery, Haifa, Israel.
2011: "Pudding", Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Tsuki Garbian
Dual Exhibitions
2019: "The traveling salesman problem" - Yaara Oren & Eden Bannet, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2016: “Painting by request”- Yaara Oren & Noam Wenkert, Tammy House, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Carmit Blumenson
2012: "Practice" -Yaara Oren & Alma Shneor, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Dina Yakerson
2012: "Four Generations: Ruth Schloss & Yaara Oren", Tiroche Gallery, Herzliya, Israel.
Curator: Einav Ziv.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024: The Whole and it’s parts, Keren Bar Gil Gallery, Ramat Hasharon, Israel. Curator: Keren Bar Gil
2020: The Tel Aviv Biennale of Crafts & Design, Muza Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curators: Henrietta Eliezer Brunner, Yuval Saar
2019: “Keeping at Distance: on intimacy in contemporary painting”, Petach Tikva museum of art, Petach Tikva, Israel.
Curator: Liza Gershuni
2018: "Black", Ralli museum, Caesarea, Israel
Curator: Ron Bartosh
2018: “Free Entrance”, Kav 16 gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Curator: Karny Barzily
2018: “Flower Power”, Circle 1 gallery, Berlin, Germany
Galerie am Rathaus, Norderstedt, Germany
Curator: Carmit Blumenson)
2018: “Up to the First Touch – Shemi and painters”, Atalier Shemi, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
Curator: Smadar Schindler
2017:"Vacuum", Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel/
Curator: Smadar Schindler & Boaz Noy
2017: "Painter Stealing from Painter is a Painter", “Hamidrasha School of Arts”, Beit Berl, Israel
Curator: Erez Uzan
2017: "Painting Salon", Ha'Kubiya Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curator: Dan Orimian & Ella Cohen Vansover
2016: “What’s to Paintful to Remember we Simply Choose to Forget”, Artists Residence Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel.
Curator: Ran Kasmy Ilan
2016: “Open Sketchbooks No.2”, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel.
Curator: Orly Maiberg
2016: “To be is to Separate”, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Reuma Chayot
2015: "Modernism", Rosenbach contemporary, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curator: Nogah Davidson
2015: "Painting Salon", Ha'Kubiya Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curator: Dan Orimian & Ella Cohen Vansover
2014: "They Paint Flowers", Jaffa Art Salon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Amit Cabessa
2014: "Selfie", Ramleh contemporary art station, Ramleh, Israel.
Curator: Liav Mizrahy
2014: "BENEFIT", Stephen S. Wise Temple in partnership with Paddle 8, Los Angles, USA.
Curator: Sharon Zoldan
2010-2013: "Regeneration 2 - Tomorrow Photographers Today": world-wide traveling exhibition.
Curators: Nathalie Herדchdorfer & William Erwing.
Venues:
ROSPHOTO, Saint Petersburg, Russia // Devos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan, USA // Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA // Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, USA // Landskrona Museum, Landskrona, Sweden // Aperture Foundation, New York, USA // Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary // Galerie Azzedine Alaia, Paris, France // Caochangdi Photo Spring Festival, Pekin, China // Recontres International de la Photo de Fes, Fes, Morocco // Musee de I’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland// Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France// Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa// Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, china// Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy// Centre Gallery, Miami Dade College, Miami, USA// Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, Canada// Fotoweek DC, Washington, USA.
2013: "Go Figure", Ha'Agaf Gallery, Haifa, Israel.
Curator: Yaara Oren.
2012: "Metushelah", Galon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Avi Schneebaum.
2012: "BAAD Influence", BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Johnathan Twitto.
2012: "Terra Nova", The City Gallery, Bat Yam, Israel.
Curator: Sharon Toval.
2012: "Mishloah Manot", Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curators: Gali Faber & Yael Ravid.
2011: "Facing Forward", Forward Thinking Museum,
Curators: Nathalie Herschdorfer.
2010: "The First Decade", Mofet Institute, Tell Aviv, Israel.
Curators: Yuval Caspy and Dina Shenhav.
2009: “Mesilat Yesharim”, Street Exhibition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Noam Venkart.
2009: Graduation Exhibition, “Hamidrasha” School of Arts, Beit Berl, Israel.
Curators: Angella Klein and Talia Keynan.
2009: “Photography and Desire”, Tel-Hay Photography museum, Tel-Hay, Israel.
Selected Art Events
2016: "Cut Off", Artist Wall, Rozin Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Karni Barzilay.
2015: "Down", Downtown Art Events, Haifa Film Festival, Haifa, Israel.
2014: "Menofim" Art Festival, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curator: Dina Yakerson.
2013: "Testing Tools", Art Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curator: Carmit Blumensohn.
2012: "Fresh Paint 5" art fair, Artists' Greenhouse, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curators: Matan Daube & Yifaat Gurion.
Residency
2022: The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
2013: "High Res", Ha'Agaf Gallery, Haifa, Israel.
Collections
Musee de I'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Knesset of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Leumi Bank Collection, Israel
Discount Bank Collection, Israel
Private collections