Working as a multidisciplinary artist I explore methods of categorization between the primal and the civilised. Subverting familiar structures and representations, I ask to expand our perception and understanding of the visual forces that shape Western civilization. Questions arise about how a civilised consciousness is shaped in contemporary society, compared to the necessity of a less refined state of being.
My work takes on various forms, intending to challenge the viewer's previous assumptions, to become involved in the construction of speculative dystopian and utopian plots. I apply strategies of voyeurism and peeping through the usage of hidden cameras, the exploitation of found footage and my own personal archive, in order to uncover anxieties related to a personal and national crisis of identity and belonging.
My use of materials is always calculated and blended for a purpose, looking for the unexpected, relying on humor to levy weighty subjects. The message that I intend to permeate through my works is that layers of meaning are continuously piled one on top of the other, and are accessible and malleable.
Working mainly as an installation artist, along the years I also developed a body of works of painting on paper, digital prints and found objects. I create my oil paint with pigments, combine spray, colored pencils and pastel. I see painting as an arena of action in which arbitrary and calculated elements come together in an attempt to order a chaotic state of awareness suspended between the uncultivated and the domesticated. In the transition between images dealing with masculinity and sexuality to the sublime, I seek to create a pictorial space in which the sacred and the profane collide.
My work takes on various forms, intending to challenge the viewer's previous assumptions, to become involved in the construction of speculative dystopian and utopian plots. I apply strategies of voyeurism and peeping through the usage of hidden cameras, the exploitation of found footage and my own personal archive, in order to uncover anxieties related to a personal and national crisis of identity and belonging.
My use of materials is always calculated and blended for a purpose, looking for the unexpected, relying on humor to levy weighty subjects. The message that I intend to permeate through my works is that layers of meaning are continuously piled one on top of the other, and are accessible and malleable.
Working mainly as an installation artist, along the years I also developed a body of works of painting on paper, digital prints and found objects. I create my oil paint with pigments, combine spray, colored pencils and pastel. I see painting as an arena of action in which arbitrary and calculated elements come together in an attempt to order a chaotic state of awareness suspended between the uncultivated and the domesticated. In the transition between images dealing with masculinity and sexuality to the sublime, I seek to create a pictorial space in which the sacred and the profane collide.
Yaron Attar
Born in Israel, 1979
Holds Polish citizenship
Lives and works in Tel-Aviv
Email – attar.yaron[at]gmail[dot]com
Instagram – instagram.com/yaronattar
Education
2011-2013 – The Advanced Studies Program, Ha Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berel
2003-2007 – B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2005 – School of Visual Arts, New York (student exchange program)
Solo Exhibitions
2021 – Backseat Travelers, Raw-Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2018 – No Vacance, Raw-Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2015 – Debts, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2014 – Lunch with the Twins, Cabri Gallery
2014 – Gambler’s Breath, The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2013 – Royal Bitch, The Advanced Studies Program Thesis Show
2012 – False Force, 121 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2011 – Wish List, Minshar Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 – Gallery artists + Gallery guests, Givon Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2024 – Evil Root, Jerusalem Artists House
2022 – Shortest Way to Happiness, Givon Art Forum, Tel-Aviv
2021 – Blade Memory, CCA, Contemporary Art Center, Tel-Aviv
2020 – Tribe of Benjamin, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv
2019 – Drop Dead Funny, The Brno House of Art, The Czech Republic
2019 – Habit Fest, Duel show with Vered Shilony, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2018 – Armor, Raw-Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2018 – Breaking Balance, HIT Gallery, Bratislava
2017 – Current Affairs, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2017 – The Finger, Fresh Paint Art Fair - Special Projects
2017 – Cats & Dogs, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2016 – Under the Skin, The Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Baram
2016 – Nord art, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Germany
2016 – Editor Death, Oranim Gallery for Israeli Art, Oranim College
2016 – The Sculpture Garden, The Open University Art Gallery, Ra'anana
2016 – Dad Dad, P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2015 – Show Room, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2015 – Adolescence, Nuzhaa Art Gallery, Jaffa
2015 – Photographic Memory, Photography Festival, Rishon LeZion
2013 – No Place, BAAD Gallery - The Bezalel Academy MFA Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2013 – Goods, Moby, Museums of Bat-Yam
2012 – Black Box, Public Art Project, Jerusalem
2012 – Cutting Zone, The Genia Schreiber Tel-Aviv University Art Gallery
2010 – Subvision Kunst Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2010 – Ford, Line 16 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2010 – The Photographer, Kibbutz Be’eri Art Gallery
2010 – No Nonsense, Herzliya Museum of Art
2008 – Time Is Out of Joint, The First Tel-Aviv Art Biennale
Screenings
2025 – The Jerusalem Film Festival, Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards
2023 – Dancing on Tec(h)tonic Plates, Virtual screening, Artis website
2019 – VAEFF, Video and Film Festival, Tribeca Film Center, New York
2019 – The Jerusalem Film Festival, Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards
2015 – Tampere Film Festival, Finland
2013 – ‘We Hate Our Village’, Message Salon, Zurich, Switzerland
2013 – Kunsthale Faust, Hannover, Germany
2007 – Overture, White Nights screening, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Awards & Grants
2018 – “Awake,” Urban Prize, Office of Cultural Affairs Israel
2014 – The Rabinowitz Fund, Production Grant
2013 – Production Grant, Cabri Gallery
2011 – Excellence Scholarship, HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berel
2007 – Outstanding Achievement, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Collaborations
2008-2010 – Co-Founder/Curator, ‘Darom’, a Non-Profit Art Space, Tel-Aviv
2006-2012 – Singer/Songwriter, Punk Hapoalim, Music Band
Selected Press
Gilad Melter on ‘Blade Memory’, Group Exhibition at CCA, Haaretz, 23.12.2020
Ouzi Zur on ‘No Vacance’, Solo Exhibition at Raw-Art Gallery, Haaretz, 30.7.2018
Shaul Setter on ‘No Vacance’, Solo Exhibition at Raw-Art Gallery, Haaretz, 16.8.2018
Roy Menachem Markovich & Ravid Rovner on ‘Gambler’s Breath’ at The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Erev-Rav 13.1.2014
Ellie Armon Azulay, Studio Visit, Haaretz, 3.5.2012
Hila Shkolnik Brener on ‘GoodBye Num’, Achbar Ha’ir, 14.4.2009
Eitan Buganim on ‘Darom’, Time Out Tel-Aviv, 14.8.2008
Teaching Positions
2023-2025 – Director and Founder of ‘Departures’, an Independent Mentoring Art Program
2021-2025 – Seminar, HaKibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv
2019-2023 – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
2016-2021 – Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts
2013-2014 – Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Collections
Jonathan Zlatman Collection, Ilana Goor Museum, Avi Reich Collection, BAAD Reservoir, Yoram Dvash Collection, Raw Art Gallery Collection
Born in Israel, 1979
Holds Polish citizenship
Lives and works in Tel-Aviv
Email – attar.yaron[at]gmail[dot]com
Instagram – instagram.com/yaronattar
Education
2011-2013 – The Advanced Studies Program, Ha Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berel
2003-2007 – B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2005 – School of Visual Arts, New York (student exchange program)
Solo Exhibitions
2021 – Backseat Travelers, Raw-Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2018 – No Vacance, Raw-Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2015 – Debts, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2014 – Lunch with the Twins, Cabri Gallery
2014 – Gambler’s Breath, The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2013 – Royal Bitch, The Advanced Studies Program Thesis Show
2012 – False Force, 121 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2011 – Wish List, Minshar Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 – Gallery artists + Gallery guests, Givon Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2024 – Evil Root, Jerusalem Artists House
2022 – Shortest Way to Happiness, Givon Art Forum, Tel-Aviv
2021 – Blade Memory, CCA, Contemporary Art Center, Tel-Aviv
2020 – Tribe of Benjamin, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv
2019 – Drop Dead Funny, The Brno House of Art, The Czech Republic
2019 – Habit Fest, Duel show with Vered Shilony, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2018 – Armor, Raw-Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2018 – Breaking Balance, HIT Gallery, Bratislava
2017 – Current Affairs, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2017 – The Finger, Fresh Paint Art Fair - Special Projects
2017 – Cats & Dogs, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2016 – Under the Skin, The Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Baram
2016 – Nord art, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Germany
2016 – Editor Death, Oranim Gallery for Israeli Art, Oranim College
2016 – The Sculpture Garden, The Open University Art Gallery, Ra'anana
2016 – Dad Dad, P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2015 – Show Room, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2015 – Adolescence, Nuzhaa Art Gallery, Jaffa
2015 – Photographic Memory, Photography Festival, Rishon LeZion
2013 – No Place, BAAD Gallery - The Bezalel Academy MFA Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2013 – Goods, Moby, Museums of Bat-Yam
2012 – Black Box, Public Art Project, Jerusalem
2012 – Cutting Zone, The Genia Schreiber Tel-Aviv University Art Gallery
2010 – Subvision Kunst Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2010 – Ford, Line 16 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2010 – The Photographer, Kibbutz Be’eri Art Gallery
2010 – No Nonsense, Herzliya Museum of Art
2008 – Time Is Out of Joint, The First Tel-Aviv Art Biennale
Screenings
2025 – The Jerusalem Film Festival, Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards
2023 – Dancing on Tec(h)tonic Plates, Virtual screening, Artis website
2019 – VAEFF, Video and Film Festival, Tribeca Film Center, New York
2019 – The Jerusalem Film Festival, Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards
2015 – Tampere Film Festival, Finland
2013 – ‘We Hate Our Village’, Message Salon, Zurich, Switzerland
2013 – Kunsthale Faust, Hannover, Germany
2007 – Overture, White Nights screening, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Awards & Grants
2018 – “Awake,” Urban Prize, Office of Cultural Affairs Israel
2014 – The Rabinowitz Fund, Production Grant
2013 – Production Grant, Cabri Gallery
2011 – Excellence Scholarship, HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berel
2007 – Outstanding Achievement, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Collaborations
2008-2010 – Co-Founder/Curator, ‘Darom’, a Non-Profit Art Space, Tel-Aviv
2006-2012 – Singer/Songwriter, Punk Hapoalim, Music Band
Selected Press
Gilad Melter on ‘Blade Memory’, Group Exhibition at CCA, Haaretz, 23.12.2020
Ouzi Zur on ‘No Vacance’, Solo Exhibition at Raw-Art Gallery, Haaretz, 30.7.2018
Shaul Setter on ‘No Vacance’, Solo Exhibition at Raw-Art Gallery, Haaretz, 16.8.2018
Roy Menachem Markovich & Ravid Rovner on ‘Gambler’s Breath’ at The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Erev-Rav 13.1.2014
Ellie Armon Azulay, Studio Visit, Haaretz, 3.5.2012
Hila Shkolnik Brener on ‘GoodBye Num’, Achbar Ha’ir, 14.4.2009
Eitan Buganim on ‘Darom’, Time Out Tel-Aviv, 14.8.2008
Teaching Positions
2023-2025 – Director and Founder of ‘Departures’, an Independent Mentoring Art Program
2021-2025 – Seminar, HaKibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv
2019-2023 – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
2016-2021 – Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts
2013-2014 – Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Collections
Jonathan Zlatman Collection, Ilana Goor Museum, Avi Reich Collection, BAAD Reservoir, Yoram Dvash Collection, Raw Art Gallery Collection