Roni Taharlev

Roni Taharlev (Hebrew: רוני טהרלב) 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 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.

Catalogues

 * 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)

Awards and recognition

 * 2022 - Tel Aviv Museum, Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art
 * 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