Yael Frank
Yael Frank (b. 1982, Tel Aviv; lives and works in Montreal, Canada) holds a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem; and has attended a summer program at the Moscow Art Theatre School, USA; a Summer Program at Cambridge, MA; and a residency at the Ceramics Faculty at the Bezalel Academy.
Frank, a multidisciplinary artist, has gained recognition for her work, including the Anselm Kiefer Prize by the Wolf Foundation, and the Keshet Award for Contemporary Art by the Bar-Gil Avidan Family. Her work has been commissioned by the Tel Aviv Municipality (a permanent public sculpture); Artport Tel Aviv (a permanent public sculpture); Artis; the Rabinowitch Fund; the Pais Institute; and others.
Frank’s work has featured in major art institutions in Israel, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; the Center for Digital Art Holon; the Petach Tikvah Museum; and the Artists Residence Herzliya; among others. She has also been exhibited internationally in venues and events such as the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea; the Brono House of Art in the Czech Republic; Zachenta National Gallery in Warsaw; and Times Square, New York City.
Frank’s large-scale installations and public artworks question the fragility of agency, by revealing moments when pivotal ethical concepts are unattended. She uses comedic strategies to expose multiple points of view on the precarious state of language, in particular the fictional fatigued nature of objects, by orchestrating situations that lie physically beyond language. Portrait photo by Ella Littwiz; artworks photos by Noam Preisman, Eyal Tagar, Elad Sarig and Tom Bookshtein.
