Roni Teharlev

Roni Taharlev is an Israeli figurative painter.

Biography Roni Taharlev was born in Kibbutz Yagur. She is the daughter of the Israeli lyricist Yoram Taharlev and the poet and author Nurit Zarchi.

Art career In 2012 a self-portrait of Taharlev 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.

She has exhibited at the Israel Museum, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and at the Grand Palais in Paris.

Taharlev is the winner of the Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2022) where she also had her solo exhibition Not this Light, the Other Light

Taharlev's is a figurative painter whose work references classical European painting but with a contemporary twist. Her paintings 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.

Taharlev teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

Exhibitions Name Year Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Solo exhibition "Not this Light, the Other Light" 2023 Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, ‘Berlin-Jaffa’, solo exhibition 2021 Galerie "Fähre", Bad Saulgau, Germany, duo exhibition with Pavel Feinstein, “Self-Portraits and Other Miracles” 2020 Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center, group exhibition,‘Landscape, Portrait, Still Life’ 2020 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 Roni Taharlev, Not this Light, the Other Light, solo exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2023 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)

Awards and recognition 2022 - Tel Aviv Museum, Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art 2021 - One of the winners of the Rappaport Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 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