Roni Teharlev

Roni Teharlev studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. The recorded working language is Hebrew. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are figurative. Employment is recorded with Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Distinctions recorded are The Haim Schiff Prize for Figurative-Realistic Art, Oscar Handler Prize and The Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustration of a Children's Book.

• Name — Roni Taharlev • Native Name — רוני טהרלב • Born — 1964 • Birthplace — Kibbutz, Israel • Known for — Figurative painting • Workplaces — Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Roni Taharlev is an Israeli figurative painter.

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

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.

• 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

• 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)