NAOMI MENDEL

Catalog #: 36
Website:  www.naomimendel.com
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Title: Barbie Dolls #1
Year: 2008
Value:   $3500
Size: 90x60 cm
Description: Oil on canvas

 
About the artwork:
This work was created concerning the meanings of positioning barbie dolls, which express the beauty ideal, laid down in chaos and spread in violence. Meanings which connected with Consumerism, pedophilia, abundance and so on.  

About the Artist:
Born 1981
Lives and Works in Tel-Aviv, Israel.



Education

2005              Participating in an exchange program in Hugeschool voor de kunsten, Utrecht. Netherlands           


2002-2006     Graduate, The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem



Solo exhibitions

2010              Fragments the Heder Gallery, Tel-Aviv, curator: Ron Bartos
2009              And may be Romance in Catastrophe Dana Gallery, Yad –Mordechai kibbutz, Curator: Doron    
                      Polack   
2008              Sane Man Seeking Apartment, Agora Gallery, Tel-Aviv




Selected group exhibitions

2011              Bread and Roses, Minshar Gallery, Tel-Aviv
                      800/9, Up: Urban Production, Bat yam.
                      Wind Stones, Daniel Gallery
                      Toy, Tel Aviv harbor. curators: Tavi Art Gallery and Vitso Israel
2010              Who is a Predator? On-line exhibition on  Whcreation. curators: Shachaf Yaron and Limor     
                      Weisberg
                      Be My Guest, The Diageliv Boutique Hotel, Curator: Keren Bar-Gil
                      Fresh paint 3,  exhibiting in the frame- work of The Heder Gallery, Tel-Aviv                                    
                      Bezalel group exhibition in Berlin (UDK)
                      Frozen chocolate, Panorama building, Tel-Aviv Curator: Galit Semel
2009              Tel Aviv 100 celebrations, Rotchild Ave
                      Lolita, Hamisrad gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Ron Bartosh
                      Lehem-Hok, The Heder Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Gilit Fisher
                      Fresh paint 2 - The Young Israeli Ar Fair, Tel-Aviv
                      “This world”. Hanina Contemporary Art, Jaffa. Curator: Jonathan Hirschfeld
                  High-Touch a place for contemporary art, Herzliya. Curator: Dafna Naor
2008              Fresh Paint 1, The Young Israeli Art Fair, Tel-Aviv
2007              Art auction in New-York held by the Friends of The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
                      Permanent exhibition in the collection of  The Mandel Leadership Institute, Jerusalem
2006              Graduate exhibition of The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem: Bezalel
                     100, Terminal 1


  

Awards and scholarships

2010              The Rabinovitch foundation, Tel Aviv  
2007              Friends of The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2006              The Mandel Leadership Institute


Collections

                     Mr. Yigal Hauvi, Tel-Aviv
                     The Leumi Bank, Tel-Aviv
                     The Poalim Bank, Tel Aviv
                     Mrs. Keren Bar-Gil, Ramat
                     Hasharon
                     Mr. and Mrs Osrad, Ramat Gan
                     Mr. Yair Landau, Herzliya Medical Center
                     The Mandel Leadership Institute, Jerusalem
                     Ms. Audrey Meyer – Munz, Tel-Aviv
                     Mr. Shimshon Adler, Tel-Aviv    
                     Mr. Haim Shtanger, Tel-Aviv
                     Mr. Rani Rahav, Tel-Aviv
                     Mrs. Varda Rabin, San Francisco

                     And other private collections