About
I am a painter and installation artist based in New York and Tel Aviv. My work of recent years creates a political and social commentary via immersive installations and paintings that relate to society’s effect on climate change and one’s relations to his/her private and public environments.
I use waste vegetation (branches, petals, ferns, leaves etc.), collected in the streets, parks and elsewhere in the urban surroundings, and imprint these “relics” onto my canvases, in a technique that resembles photograms.
By creating these fossil-like ghostly compositions that range from abstractions to more representational figurations, my work alludes to forms of life that existed in the world, and are no longer with us, but that get “a second chance” or a “second life cycle” via my artistic process.
Following the ideas behind Sustainability and Ecofeminism, my paintings offer an option for healing and recovery to “dead” and neglected materials, and indirectly to our world of mass consumption and the chase after the “next best thing”. My artistic practice offers "Tikkun", a Jewish term for Correction, suggesting an additional chance to what had been thrown away from our society's circulation, and is being brought back via my artistic exploration.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 A Heartfelt Event, The Lab, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Arcadia, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2019 MomDadMe, Illustration Week #6, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Eden in Two Acts, outdoor mural, Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 In Situ, Milta, Rehovot, Israel
2019 IAILA booth, Art Palm Springs fair, Palm Springs, CA
2018 Ghost Library #32, Artist Wall, ArtSpace TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Spectrum, Soho House West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Intervals, outdoor mural, Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Fossils, A-La Rampa, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Time Traveler Part II: Compass, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA
2017 Something Blue, Alessandro Berni Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Time Traveler, University of La Verne, CA
2016 Phantom Stream, dual exhibition, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Israel
2016 Control l Release, Art Space TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Making a Mark, SVA, New York, NY
2010 Breadths of Spirit , Artists ́ House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2009 Orange Sunset, The Heder Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Sublime Encounters and Other Worlds, Residency Unlimited, New York, NY
2021 Take a Hike, Vision Gallery & the Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
2021 43rd Annual Art Auction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2021 Spectrum, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
2021 The Empty Gallery, An Online Group Show, Shrine, New York, NY
2021 11th Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, Curator: Shamim Momin
2021 Four Seasons, Municipal Gallery, Yavne, Israel
2020 Darkest Before Dawn, Art in a Time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY
2020 Art has a Scent, (Unraveling Earth), HaChava (the Farm) Gallery, Holon, Israel
2020 Internally: Emotional Landscapes from Israel, Hillel Art Gallery, USC, LA, CA
2019 Scroll of Perseverance, Art & Social Activism Festival, New York, NY
2019 Dreamin' of a..., Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Summer Salon, from the collection of the Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Concealed in Language, Municipal Art Gallery, Rishon Le-Zion , Israel
2018 Plaster 6, Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Art Swagger, DLR Group, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
2018 Still Moving, Gray Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 70.70.70. Jewish Federation, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 I Was Here, Cuckoo’s Nest, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 In My Garden, West Village, New York, NY
2017 Aiming for Touch(down), P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Collective Memory, Travelling exhibition, New York-Glasgow-Dublin
2016 Secret Art 8, Mani House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Plaster 4, Art for “Physicians for Human Rights”, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Iran Iran, Kaye College' Gallery, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
2015 Artists for Levinsky library, ArtSpace, Tel Aviv , Israel
2015 Scope Miami Beach, Miami, FL
2015 Italia Docet | Laboratorium, Venice Biennale, Italy
2015 Artist Wall, Art Space TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Summer Time, Art Space TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Annual Tallahassee International Exhibition, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2015 Refresh, Florentin45 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 The 53rd International Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, CA
2015 9xArtist's Walls, Art Space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2014 Emergence 2014, Gallerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2014 A : / > fomat, Art Space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2014 Nature vs. Media, [during Sundance], Park City, Utah
2013 A Picnic and Smokes, QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2012 A special project of art & fasion, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL
2010 Home and Abroad Exhibition Series – The Broadway Gallery, NYC, NY
2010 Fresh Paint, The Heder Gallery Artists, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2010 4th International Arte Laguna Prize, Venice Arsenale, finalists exhibition
2009 Ain’t no Sunshine when she’s gone, the 4th Floor, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Painting-Law, The Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Inaugural Exhibition, Susan Eley Fine Art, NY
EDUCATION
2002-2004 Masters in Museology, Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1985-1988 Graduate, Hamidrasha (Beit Berl) School of Art, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2021 Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
2015 SVA's Summer Residency Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2014 LICC London International Creative Competition - Honorable Mention
2010 First Prize Art&Business, 4th International Arte Laguna, Italy
1987 Scholarship for a promising young artist, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in USA, Israel, Europe and Australia
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Panel Discussion | New Renaissance in Feminist Art | March 2021
HyperAllergic | Join RU for Panels on Feminist Activism and Leadership | Feb 2021
Holon Municipality | Monumental Art Project First of its Kind | November 2020
Sharon Tuval | A Heartfelt Event | November 2020
Portfolio | Art Has A Scent, Art & Design in Holon | November 2020
Holon Municipality Art Galleries | Unraveling Earth | November 2020
Under the Bridge | Installation | Autumn 2020
Art and Social Activism | Fall 2020
Sandi Klein Show | Conversation with Creative Women | January 2020
Erev Rav | Learning to Paint All Over Again | December 2019
Portfolio | Rotem Reshef Wraps the World With Her Paintings | December 2019
ARToday | Eden in Two Acts: Act I I October 2019
Arts Westchester | Arcadia | Fall 2019
Erev Rav | Weekly Recommendations - Exhibitions at the Artists House | July 2018
Jewish Journal | Rotem Reshef on Her New Art Series "Spectrum" | July 2018
Kipton Art Advisory | Curator's Journal | Summer 2018
Calcalist | Intervals Puzzeles the Spectators With Its Unique Technique | July 2018
Haaretz | A Front vs. "Want of Matter" | July 2018
Yediot | An Exhibition a Week | May 2018
Haaretz | Exibitions-Event Recommendations | June 2018
Portfolio Magazine | Windows to the Four Seasons | June 2018
At Magazine | The best shows for the summer | 2018
VC Reporter | Rotem Reshef: Time Traveler | March 2018
Blogs Callutheran | Rotem Reshef Time Traveler: Compass | February 2018
HuffPost | Rotem Reshef: Time of the Seasons | October 2017
Lyceum Cultural Events | Time Traveler by Rotem Reshef | October 2017
Wall Street International Magazine | Rotem Reshef | September 2017
ART AND CAKE | Rotem Reshef Time Traveler Installation | December 2017
Moorpark Patch | Rotem Reshef: Time Traveler | February 2017
Campus Times | Seasons Unspool Across the Lobby | September 2017
Artillery Magazine | Time Traveler | Tall Wall Space | October 2017
KROQ Local | Time Traveler at University of La Verne | October 2017
University of La Verne | Rotem Reshef | Time Traveler | September 2017
America Israel Cultural Foundation
Studio Visit Volume #37 | 2017
Studio Visit Volume #35 | 2016
Where Have I Been Today | 2015
Dumbo Feather | Rotem Reshef Paints With an Open Heart | October 2014
Arte Laguna Prize, Business for Art Prize | 2010
Haaretz | Orange Sunset | Rotem Reshef's solo exhibition | September 2009
CATALOGUES
Time Traveler Part II: Compass 2018