Roni Taharlev

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Roni Taharlev (Hebrew: רוני טהרלב), born 1964, is an Israeli figurative painter.^[1] She exhibited in diverse international and Israeli museums and galleries, including the Israel Museum,^[2] the National Portrait Gallery in London, and an exhibition curated at the Grand Palais in Paris.^[3][4] Taharlev teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.^[5][6]

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.^[7] 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.^[8]

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[]

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^[12]
• 2002 - The Oskar Hendler Prize, Israel^[13]
• 2000 - The Ben Isaac Prize, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• 1983 - The America Israel Fund Award for Young Artists

References[]

External links[]

• 25 May — 24 Aug 2019 at The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Herzliya, Israel
• Israeli Artist Roni Taharlev
• Roni Taharlev
• Roni Taharlev
• Exposition Lune au Grand Palais