Tamar Harpaz

Tamar Harpaz is a sculpture, installation and sound artist, as well as an educator, reading for a practice-led DPhil in Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Art. Harpaz’s cinematic installations encompass sound, light, and household objects to create improvised storytelling machines.

Among others, she has shown at Kunstverein Dresden, The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, Het Hem Zaandam, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Macro Museum in Rome, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, CCA in Tel Aviv,  Edel Assanti gallery in London, and Sommer Contemporary in Tel Aviv. She is the recipient of the Wolf Foundation's Kiefer Prize and the Tel Aviv Museum's Givon Prize. Between 2015 and 2017, she was an artist in residence at Rijksakademie Residency. Harpaz is currently a lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art.

Harpaz’s research project, titled The Face as a Storytelling Machine, is a critical examination of the current relationship between artists and technology through the prism of cyborg feminism. 
Her research has been generously funded by AICF and the Daniel Howard Foundation.