Background
She grew up in religious family and attended Zeitlin school.
She grew up in religious family and attended Zeitlin school.
She studied art in The Faculty of Arts: HaMidrasha of Academic College in Beit Berl, but did not graduate.
Vardi Kahana is an Israeli photographer. Vardi Kahana began her career in photography at the beginning of the 1980s in reportage in magazine "Monitin", and within a short period of time she settled into magazine photography. In the framework of her job, she has photographed a variety of Israeli figures over the years, gradually turning her work into an integral part of the catalogue of images in which Israeli society lives.
In 1983 she joined Hadashot newspaper and worked in it till 1993, when the newspaper was closed.
In 1995 she began working for "7 days" newspaper, which is part of Yedioth Ahronoth holding. Also recently, major retrospectives of her work have been shown in The Art Gallery at Yad Labanim Ramat HaSharon and "The Artists House" in Rehovot.
Solo
1992 "Photography: Vardi Kahana", Camera Obscura Gallery, TelAviv, Israel
2001 "Beauty Has Cut Itself Of", Ramat Gan Museum, Israel
2007 "Israeli portrait", Artist"s House, Tel Aviv Israel
2007 "One Family", Andrea Meislin Gallery New York New York
2007 "One Family", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 "One Family", Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy
2008 "A Photographer of people", Academy of Design and Photography, Haifa, Israel
2008 "One Family", Academie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
2008 "One Family", Photo Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
2008 "One Family", The Jewish Museum, Brussels, Belgium
2009 "One Family", Arts Depot, London, England
2010 "One Family", The Public Library, Amsterdam, Holland
2010 "One Family", Sinti and Roma Museum, Heidelberg, Germany
2010 "One Family", The Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
2012 "Near and Far", The Artists House, Rehovot, Israel
2013 "Fields of Vision", The Art Gallery at Yad Labanim, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
2015 "One Family", The Center for Jewish Life, Princeton University.
