Dafna Shalom
Reef, Jaffa, #13, AP
2004-2008
60x60 cm
About the Artist: Dafna Shalom studied at the International Center for Photography and graduated from Hunter College with a degree in fine arts. She assisted on various contemporary art projects for the multimedia artist Oliver Herring and for the Public Art fund in New York. Using both photography and video, Shalom's works open questions on corporal fragility, the politics of identity, randomness and dislocation. She has exhibited at venues such as Minnesota Center for Photography, USA, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary art, USA, Petach Tikva Museum, Israel, Ein-Harod Art Center, Israel, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv and more. Shalom divides her time between New York and Tel Aviv and is part of a dynamic group of artists, film makers and intellectuals of Arab decent (mizrahim) that explore their hybrid Jewish-Arab identity and act for solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Shalom also teaches photography, works as a graphic designer and was a photographer for the newspaper Haaretz in NY until 2005.
