Yaara Zach

Born in 1984, lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Education
2009 BFA Program, Dpt. of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem
2011 MFA Program, Dpt. of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem

Teaching
Since 2017 – Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan
(Multidisciplinary Art School and the Department of Interior Building & Environment Design)

Awards & Grants

2023, Artport Alumni Funding
Asylum Arts at The Neighborhood
2022, The Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Prize for Visual Art
Rabinovich Foundation Funding
Mifal Hapais Funding
2019, Artport Alumni Funding
Meetfactory, Production Support
2018, Artport Alumni Funding
2017, Asylum Arts Small Grant
2017, Artis Project Grant
2017, Rabinovich Foundation support for an Artist Book
2017, Mifal Hapais Scholarship for a Catalog
2016, Artport support for an Artist Book
2016, Artport Scholarship for Artist in Residence
2015, The Rabinovich Foundation with the Tel Aviv Municipality Special Project Grant
2013, The Rabinovich Foundation with the Tel Aviv Municipality Special Project Grant
2010, Bezalel Academy Scholarship for Excellence
2010, Bezalel Academy Encouragement of Creation Award
2009, Bezalel Academy Award for Achievements

Residence Programs
Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea, 2022
Meetfactory, Prague, 2019
Outset Studiomakers, Tel Aviv, 2018
Oranim College, Kiryat Tiv’on, 2018
Artport Tel Aviv, 2016-2017
Real Presence10, Belgrade, 2010

Collections

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Galila’s P.O.C., Brussels, Belgium,
Ahuvi Collection, Israel
ST Art, Israel
Bank Leumi, Israel

Solo Exhibitions

2024  Tel Aviv Artists’ House  (Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Prize for Visual Art 2022)
2023 The First Year, Artwall Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2020 BLACK FRIDAY, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 Unreasonable Doubt, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel (Catalog)
The Body, double solo with Daniel Tsal, Oranim College, Haifa
2016 In Daylight, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 Manicure Pedicure, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Grabbing the space, double solo with Orly Sever, The NB Haifa School of Design, Haifa
2013 Allow me to be Indifferent, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 SUBSTRATE, CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo
Kefitzat Haderech, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea
Artsa, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2022 Shortest Way to Happiness, Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv
Modernism, in spite of and above all, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Reverie, Liebling Haus – White City Centre, Tel Aviv
Out of the 2020’s, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2021 Other Sky, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2020 Returning to Nature, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens
AGE – NDA, Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv
Ground Water, Municipal Gallery, Ramat Hasharon
2019 Drop Dead Funny, The Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic
Back to Artport, Artport Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 Measure, Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv
Extract +, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Biennale for Young Art, Moscow (Catalog)
No Place Like Home, Berardo collection Museum, Lisbon (Catalog)
2017 Spreading Out, Basis for Art and Culture, Herzliya (Catalog)
Transform, Alfa Gallery, Miami, Florida
NonFinito, Artport- Center for Young Art, Tel Aviv (Catalog)
No Place Like Home, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Catalog)
Women Workers’ Movement, Uri and Rami Nehoshtan Museum, Ashdot Yaakov Kibbutz (Catalog)
2016 Color Separations, Basis for Art and Culture, Herzliya (Catalog)
2015 Within Reach, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod (Catalog)
Carpets: The territory of painting _ From Ido Bar-El to Yaara Zach, The Bezalel Academy Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 Revealment and Concealment, Bialik House Museum, Tel Aviv
2013 Likeness, Shenkar College Gallery, Ramat-Gan
Ready Set Go, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
Haspentair, Hachalalit, Tel Aviv
Local Pulse, Tel Aviv Artists’ House, Tel Aviv. (E Catalog)
2012 More or Less, Shenkar College Gallery, Ramat-Gan
Live soundtracks for movies that don’t yet exist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Practice Makes Perfect, Tavi Art Gallery
8 Cube Museum Space, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2011 Lines made by Walking, (Formally Speaking), Haifa Museum of Art (Catalog)
And what shall we do with painting in the 21st century, (Formally Speaking), Haifa Museum of Art (Catalog)
Open Call for Snow, Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2010 Art on Fire, Contemporary by Golconda, Tel Aviv
Real Presence 10, Belgrade, Serbia (Catalog)

Press
2023
Hagit Peleg Rotem, Yaara Zach’s Trilogy of Mourning, Portfolio (Hebrew)
2020
Uzi Tzur, on Black Friday, Haaretz (Hebrew)
Una Meistere, Bodily Memory is Long-Term Memory, Arterritory 
2018
Naomi Lev, Yaara Zach-Unreasonable Doubt (review), The Brooklyn Rail
Hagay Hacohen, The Atlas and the Ruins, on Unreasonable Doubt, Jerusalem Post
Maya Asheri, Four most recommended exhibition of summer 2018, Ha’aretz (Hebrew)
Yaara Zach, Unreasonable Doubt, Asylum Magazine, NYC
Debby Luzia, From Frida Kahlo to Klimt: The best exhibitions of 2018 in Israel and abroad, Y-net, (Hebrew)
2017
Uzi Tzur, on Spreading Out, Ha’aretz (Hebrew)
Review on No Place Like Home, Marketopic RU (Russian)
Uzi Tzur, on In Daylight, Ha’aretz (Hebrew)
Uzi Tzur, on Color Separation, Ha’aretz (Hebrew)
2014
Uzi Tzur, on Manicure-Pedicure, (Hebrew)
Eitan Buganim, A different gaze on painting at Bezalel gallery in Tel Aviv, on Carpets: Territories of painting- From Ido Bar-el To Yaara Zach, Ha’aretz (Hebrew)
2011
Smadar Shefi, From the cold lands to my windows, Ha’aretz (Hebrew)
Hila Cohen-Schneiderman, on Jaffa-Tel Aviv, City Mouse (Hebrew)

Publications
2018
Hadas Maor, Unreasonable Doubt, in Lay Low (artist book), Tel Aviv
Nicola Trezzi, Modernity Sui Generis: Notes “Up-On” the Painterly Sculptures of Yaara Zach, in Lay Low (artist book), Tel Aviv
Plan B (version 2), Yaara Zach, in No Place Like Home (catalog), Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon
2017
Smadar Keren, about Yaara Zach, in ‘Women Workers’ Movement: sculpture, body, action’, in Women Workers’ Movement (catalog)
Plan B, Yaara Zach, in No Place Like Home (catalog), Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Shlomit Breuer, About Yaara Zach, in Spreading Out, (catalog) Basis Gallery, Herzelia, Israel
Nicola Trezzi, Yaara Zach, in Nonfinito 5, Artport, Tel Aviv
2016
Shlomit Breuer, about Yaara Zach, in Color Separation (catalog) Basis Gallery, Herzelia, Israel
2015
Iris Mendel, about Yaara Zach, in ‘Within Reach’ (catalog), Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel
2011
Ruth Director, about Yaara Zach, in ‘Formally Speaking” (catalog), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

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