DAFNA REHAVIA
B. Tel-Aviv
I am a mixed media interdisciplinary artist. Fragility, temporariness the possibilities of transformation related to human existence are the focus of my artistic and therapeutic practice. I am interested in issues such as survival, identity and healing and their complex relationship to violence, human experience with a focus on women, migration, rituals and culture.
I have exhibited nationally and internationally in group shows at Agora Gallery (NY), Suffolk University (MA), Lesley University (MA), Amsterdam (NL), Wurzburg (Germany), Chicago (IL), Youngstown (OH), Baltimore (MD), Pittsburgh (PA), Tel-Aviv (IS). Solo shows at Modern Formations Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PA), Alternative Space (Israel), CA Gallery (MD). Upcoming Exhibtion at Boom Concepts 2020 Somatic Aesthetics; Fight; Flight; Freeze.
My work has been published in Sentiments: Expressions of Cultural Passage by Press Press https://presspress.info/networks/sentiments and other books, journals, and catalogs.
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Education:
BFA, BED, Hamidrasha of the Arts, Beit Berl College. Israel
BA, Art Therapy, Seminar Hakibbutzim State College, Israel
MA CAT, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
PhD, Therapeutic Arts, Psychology & Cultural Studies, University of Derby, UK
