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Nomi Tannhauser (born 1956) is an Israeli painter. Her works deal with the female body, its cultural and historical contexts, the adolescent body and its ephemerality. Her paintings are characterized by great precision in detail, humor and bright colors. In addition, Tannhauser is a curator and the establisher of the "Antea" Gallery for Women's Art in Jerusalem.

Biography
Nomi Tannhauser was born in 1956 in Chicago, USA. Her father was a physicist of German Jewish descent and her mother a Swiss chemist. Until the age of 5, her family migrated to Boston and Los Angeles when in 1961 she immigrated to Israel with her family and lived in Haifa. During her military service, she was a teacher at a field school in Eilat and lived in Jerusalem ever since. Between the years 1976-1981 she studied visual communication at Bezalel Academy and in 1984 during her stay in New York she began a career as a painter. Between 1986 and 2006, Tannhauser taught at Emuna College and various art institutions in Jerusalem.

In 1994, together with Rita Mendes-Flor, she founded the Antea Gallery of Women's Art in Jerusalem, which operated until 2009. Tannhauser curated exhibitions on issues related to the body and gender, including: "Hair" at the Jerusalem Artists' House, 1995, "Thank You Pamela" (in memory of Pamela Levy) at the Antea Gallery, 2005, "Red Shells" at the Print Workshop in Jerusalem, 2012 and more. In 2019, Tannhauser and Mendes-Flor presented the exhibition "Her Dress, Her Symbol: Antea Revisited" at the Agrippas 12 Gallery and the Mary Gallery in Jerusalem, which marked the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Antea Gallery with the participation of one hundred artists.

Personal Life
Married to Tzachi Kedar and have three children. Lives in Jerusalem.

Her Work
The motifs in Tannhauser's works are women, the body and the relationship of the body and the space around it.

"Nomi describes art as an integral part of the struggles of daily life with the perception of the self, with what belongs to it and what is outside to it ... In her work there are transitions between realism, hyper-realism, abstraction and symbolism through which she creates portraits. Tannhauser creates an invitation to look directly at the action of art and especially at figurative painting as a mental and social action." Irena Gordon.