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Roni Taharlev (Hebrew: רוני טהרלב), born 1964, is an Israeli figurative painter. She exhibited in diverse international and Israeli museums and galleries, including the Israel Museum, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and an exhibition curated at the Grand Palais in Paris.Taharlev teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
Biography
Taharlev was born in 1964 at the Kibbutz Yagur in Israel. Taharlev is the daughter of the Israeli lyricist Yoram Taharlev and the poet and author Nurit Zarchi. In 2012 a self-portrait of hers was included in the BP Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London and was also exhibited in Scotland and Wales. In 2019 her painting Not This Light, the Other Light was selected for the major exhibition The Moon, from Real to Imaginary Voyages at the Grand Palais in Paris, a ‘first’ for an Israeli painter. In 2019 she also had a solo exhibition at the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, titled White Ravens.
Taharlev's work is in the genre of figurative realist painting, especially portraits. Her work is characterized by a deep knowledge of the classical tradition in European painting through the ages, and by her ability to correspond with this tradition from a position of familiarity while insisting at the same time on a modern-contemporary perspective, thus creating in her paintings over many years a highly personal artistic language.
Taharlev uses her paintings of figures and portraits to explore fundamental experiences of identity and selfhood in modern Western society, such as the objectification of women, the limits of gender binaries, and the cultural aspiration for determinism versus ambivalence and play.
Exhibitions
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Galleries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, exhibition ‘La Lune. Du voyage réel aux voyages imaginaires’ | 2019 |
| Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, solo exhibition “White Ravens” (with catalog) | 2019 |
| Petach Tikva Museum of Art, group exhibition | 2019 |
| Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, solo exhibition | 2019 |
| Ben Gurion University Art Gallery, solo exhibition “Undressing the Nude” (with catalog) | 2018 |
| Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, solo exhibition, “The Land Where the Lemons Bloom” | 2017 |
| Contemporary Golconda, solo exhibition “Virgins and Goldfinches” | 2016 |
| The Kubia art space, Jerusalem, group exhibition | 2015 |
| Contemporary Golconda, summer group exhibition | 2015 |
| Tel Aviv Museum, commission for group exhibition “Blue and White Delft” | 2014 |
| Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, group exhibition | 2013 |
| BP Award exhibition, National Portrait Gallery London, group exhibition | 2012 |
| BP Award, group exhibitions in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and the Welsh National Portrait Gallery in Exeter | 2012 |
| Jerusalem Studio School Gallery, Jerusalem, solo exhibition | 2011 |
| Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, group exhibition | 2011 |
| Bernard gallery Tel Aviv, solo exhibition | 2010 |
| Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv, group exhibition | 2008 |
| Lochamei Ha'getaot Gallery, solo Exhibition as winner of the Oskar Hendler Prize | 2002 |
| The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, group exhibition | 2000 |
| Amalia Arbel Gallery, Tel Aviv, solo Exhibition | 1995 |
| Amalia Arbel Gallery, Rishon Lezion Solo Exhibition | 1994 |
| The America- Israel Foundation, The Helena Rubinstein Museum, Tel Aviv. group exhibition | 1983 |
Catalogues
- La Lune. Du voyage réel aux voyages imaginaires, Galleries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2019 (French)
- White Ravens 2015-2019, solo exhibition catalogue, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, 2019
- Undressing the Nude, Ben Gurion University, 2018, solo exhibition catalogue
- Delft in Blue and White, Tel Aviv Museum, 2014, curator Doron Luria, group exhibition catalogue
- BP Award Catalogue, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2012
- Blood Relation, Bernard Gallery, 2009, solo exhibition catalogue
- The Great Illustrators Book, Israel Museum, 2004 (Hebrew)
Grants & Awards
- 2019 - Artis Art Fund, grant to support work in Berlin
- 2012 - BP Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
- 2002 - The Oskar Hendler Prize, Israel
- 2000 - The Ben Isaac Prize, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 1983 - The America Israel Fund Award for Young Artists