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Rona Yefman (b. 1972 in Israel) is an Israeli artist living and working in New York.

Life and Career
Rona Yefman received a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1999 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2009. Her recent solo shows have been at Sommer Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv), Derek Eller Gallery (New York), The Sculpture Center (Long Island City, NY) and Participant, Inc. (New York). Fascinated from the gap between what people are and what they want to be, Rona as an artist, looks for extreme situations and people that embody possibilities of freedom making of this gap an opportunity of redemption for themselves. In her works she explores identities through photographing, videotaping, collecting text and collaborating with individuals that have formed a radical persona. Her relationship with each person shifts according to the specific historical context, political conflicts and cultural issues. Establishing close relationships with her subjects, she begins with them to research in a different ways to awaken the body and to elicit the self through the construction of different characters.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 * 2012 Tuff Enuf, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
 * 2011 Marth a Bouke, project #4, Derek Eller Gallery, New York.
 * 2011 Time Kills, Short Stories, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York.
 * 2010 Let it Bleed, Participant Inc. New York City.
 * 2009 I Love my life, The Armory Show, with Sommer Contemporaryart, New York.
 * 2006 2 Flags Sommer contemporaryart, Tel Aviv, Israel.
 * 2000 Bebe A family Album, Shapiro Galley, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel.
 * 1999 Bunny on the Roof, Borochove gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Awards

 * 2008 The Center for Contemporary Art, grant to complete a work, Israel.
 * 2007 The New Creation prize, award by The Ministry of Education, Culture & Sport, Israel.
 * 2003 The Young Artist Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Education & Culture,Israel
 * 2001 The Gerared Levi prize for Young Israeli Photographers, awarded by The Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel