Shahar Yahalom

Born in Kibbutz Ein Dor in 1980, Shahar Yahalom is a sculptress who lives and works in Tel Aviv.
In 2006, she graduated with a B.ed. from the HaMidrasha Faculty of the Arts of Beit Berl College, and, in 2014, gained an M.F.A. from the Columbia University Art Department in New York.
In 2009, she held a solo exhibition “-80°C” at the Noga Gallery, where she later held two more exhibitions: “ED” (2012) and "Animals" (2015). In 2011, Yahalom held a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as part of the Gottesdiener Prize winners’ exhibition. I addition, she participated in a variety of group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
Her sculptural work raises questions about the relationship between the living (human) body and the still (sculpted) body, as well as the relationship between them and a dead body. In her recent works she examines the possibility of still representation, making the dimension of the living non-existent, thereby creating disruption and reversal in structures of control and hierarchy between bodies.
 
Academic positions:
2009-2012 – Sculpture teacher at HaMidrasha Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College
2016 – Sculpture teacher at HaMidrasha Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College
2016 – Sculpture teacher at the Art Department, Shenkar College of Design and Art
 
Selected exhibitions:
2017 – NBL Project, Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland. Curator: Sagit Mezamer.
2016 – Walter Benjamin Archive / Exile, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curators: Noam Segal and Rafael Zaguri.
2015 – Animals, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015 – Artist booth at The Armory Show, New York, USA.
2014 – Drawn, Inside Out Museum, Beijing, China.
2012 – ED, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2011 – Dry, Culturescapes Festival, Basel, Switzerland.
2011 – The Raspberry Land, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2010 – Alaska School, HaMidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2009 – -80°C, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
 
Awards and grants:
2014 – Studio scholarship, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, New York, USA.
2012-2013 – ‘Artis’ scholarship to finance studies at Columbia University, New York, USA.
2012 – Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
2006-2007 – Creative Excellence Grant from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
2006 – Excellence scholarship from Beit Berl College.