Roni Taharlev

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 of 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 https://tamuseum.org.il/en/exhibition/roni-taharlev-not-light-other-light/ In 2026–2027, she will be an Artist-in-residence at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.Roni Taharlev. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

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 YearTel Aviv Museum of Art, Beyond Small, Miniauture Worlds in Contemporary Art, group exhibition Beyond Small, Miniauture Worlds in Contemporary Art. Tel Aviv Museum of Art2026Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, ‘The Swing’, solo exhibition, fellowRoni Taharlev, The Swing2025Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, ‘For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella’, solo exhibitionHavatzelet Damari. to become Cinderella. Yedioth Ahronoth, December 1, 2025, p. 2. 2025Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, ‘Inside Fragonard's Garden’, solo exhibitionYael Garty, a compiler of Israeli creative works, solo ehhibition, LaIsha, Movember, 2025, p. 12. Israel Hayom. November 28, 2025.2024Mishkan Museum of Art, ‘Masterpieces’, group exhibition, curator: Avi Lubin Masterpieces, group exhibition. Mishkan Museum of Art.2024Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I don't want to forget from the collection of Mareva and Arthur Essebag, group exhibitionI don't want to forget from the collection of Mareva and Arthur Essebag. Tel Aviv Museum of Art.2024Tel Aviv Museum of Art, ‘Not this Light, the Other Light’, Solo exhibition, (with catalog)Naama Riba (July 18, 2023). New museum show offers viewer the perfect and flawed female body. Haaretz. p. 7. 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 Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, exhibition ‘La Lune. Du voyage réel aux voyages imaginaires’ 2019 Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, solo exhibition “White Ravens” (with catalog) 2019Petah Tikva Museum of Art, group exhibition 2019 Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, solo exhibition 2019 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 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 of Art, 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 Lohamei HaGeta'ot Gallery, solo Exhibition as winner of the Oskar Hendler Prize 2002 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, group exhibition 2000 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. group exhibition 1983

Catalogues 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 ArtThe Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Prizes. 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

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