Daniela Yaniv-Richter

Background

Yaniv-Richter was born in Zürich, Switzerland, and made aliyah to Israel in 1975.

Education

She graduated Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem in 1982. She studied further in the Eastern Michigan University till 1983, then proceeding to Master of Fine Arts studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Master of Fine Arts on 1985.

Career

Yaniv-Richter resides and works in Jerusalem. Solo "Natural Process" (2012). Jerusalem Artists House.

Curator: Tamar Gispan-Greenberg.

"Virtual Reality" (2008). Ha"Chava Gallery, Holon.

"Useful Sculptures" (2003). Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod.

Group "Eat, Love" (2013).

Beit Meirov Art Gallery, Holon. Curator: Nitza Perry "A Post Production Moment" (2010). FLUXspace, Philadelphia.

Curators: Anat Shiftan, Kate Doody.

"Intermediate Nature" (2009). The Artists Workshops, Jerusalem.

"Clay, Sensation" - the Fifth Israeli Ceramics Biennale (2008). Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.

"Heara 10" (2006). Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem.

Ministry of Education and Culture Awards Exhibition (2005). Tel Aviv Museum of Artist "Design, Art, Design" - the Third Israeli Ceramics Biennale (2004).

Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.

The Second Israeli Ceramics Biennale (2002). Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.

Achievements

• Shapira Prize, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, 1982 Cash Business Award, Ann Arbor Art Association, Michigan, 1984 Sculpture Award, Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan, 1985 Erim Purchase Award, Ann Arbor Art Association, Michigan, 1987 First Prize, Michigan Ceramics, Selo Shevel Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1987 Alfred and Ilsa Stammer-Mayer Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002 Georges and Jenny Bloch Foundation, Zollikon, Switzerland, 2003 Acquisition Award from the National Lottery, 2003 The Ministry of Education Design Award, 2004. Jury Statement: "Yaniv-Richter professionally creates useful objects of everyday life from ceramic matter. The gap between the names of the objects and their immediate categorization to their appearance raises important questions about essence, value and hierarchy of objects. Her choice of matter is precise and offers a different observation, simple and complex at once.