Sharona Eliassaf (b.1980, Petach Tikva) is an Israeli and American painter who lives and works in Ramat Gan, Israel. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, and holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of art and design, Jerusalem.
Sharona Eliassaf
Selected exhibitions: Sense of Place, Loupe Art (online) with Wonzimer Gallery, LA (2020); The Red Wood (online), LA (2020); Symbols & Archetypes: Two Millennia of Collective Visions in Art, Vanderbilt University Fine arts gallery, Nashville, Tennessee (2020); Plastic Gardens, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York (2019); The Beyond: Georgia O'keeffe and Contemporary Art (travelling) - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC and New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT (2018-2019); Reading Between the Lines, Hashimoto Contemporary Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2018); Buddy System, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, New York (2018); Portals, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (2017); Making Ends Meet (solo) Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv (2016); Queens International Biennial, Queens Museum of Art, New York (2012); Dustcatcher, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (2012).
Selected awards and grants: Finalist, Joan Mitchell Foundation painters and sculptors grant program (2012); MFA Fine arts assistantship award, School of Visual Arts, NY (2011); Skowhegan-School of Visual Arts Matching Grant (2011); Sharet foundation scholarship award for painting- America-Israel culture Foundation, Tel Aviv (2004)
Splitting her time since childhood between Israel and New York City, Sharona Eliassaf is deeply affected by the changeable notion of place: Her canvases are stage-like spaces where she manipulates her own sublime, weaving cryptic narratives from the collected experiences of overlapping countries, languages, identities, markets, anxieties, and technologies experienced in the everyday. Like in a dream, nothing is excluded as subject matter: TV game shows, storefront signs, breaking news, overheard conversations, cosmic phenomena, and digital images all swirl and synthesize in a single composition
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