Rona Yefman
New York and Tel Aviv
Artist’s Statement
Rona Yefman (b. Haifa, Israel) is a New York City-based artist working in Photography, Video and Installation. Her work explores issues of identity through range of human experiences by collaborating with individuals who have formed a radical persona that inscribe the iconic and the absurd of our time. She received her MFA from Columbia University in New York City in 2009. Her recent N.Y.C solo shows were held at Derek Eller Gallery, 2012, The Sculpture Center, 2011 and Participant Inc, 2010. Those shows have been reviewed in Art Forum, Frieze, Art in America, Modern Painters and Bomb Magazine.
Recent group exhibitions include; Callicoon Gallery, NY, La Mep Museum, Paris, The Jewish Museum, NY, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 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 Lotos Club Award, The Rema Hort Mann Scholarship, Gerard Levy Prize for a young photographer by the Israel Museum, and The Ingeborg Bachmann Scholarship Established by Anselm for The Wolf Foundation.
In 2014, Rona’s first Artist Book, Let it Bleed (1996-2010) is going to be publish by Little Big Man Books, she is curetting a photography exhibition at the new downtown gallery of the Camera Club of New York And being part of Radio Al Cabira, a free online radio station established in 2012 by group of artists in N.Y.
Artist's Links
Opening ceremony – About Shellfish, Los Angeles
artist’s website: http://www.artiscontemporary.org/artist_detail.php?id=28
gallery link: http://www.sommergallery.com