YAARA OREN
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  • 2018-2020
  • 2016-2017
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​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 
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2018: Winner of the Osnat Mozes Young Artists Painting prize

2015: Artis, Artport & Asylum Arts - Artist Career Development Program
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2009: Excellence in Art Scholarship, Hamidrasha Art School, Beit Berl

Solo Exhibitions
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
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
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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
2013: "High Res", Ha'Agaf Gallery, Haifa, Israel.

Collections
Musee de I'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
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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


 















 






  • Paintings
  • 2021-2023
  • 2018-2020
  • 2016-2017
  • "Garden Wall" Series
  • Paper Works
  • The Bureaucratic Series
  • Ceramics
  • Shop
  • Studio & Life
  • CV
  • Publications
  • Archive
    • Exotica Park
    • The American Series
    • Mooning
    • Mostly Grey
    • Levinsky Portraits
  • Contact