Artist Name: Yoav Weinfeld
Residency Dates: August – September 2025
Born: 1987
Hometown: Jerusalem
Lives & Works: Tel Aviv
URL: yoavweinfeld.com | Instagram @yoavweinfeld
Education:
2018 – MFA in Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 – Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME, USA
2012 – BFA in Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2011 – Exchange program at the Museum School for Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Bio/Statement:
Yoav Weinfeld is a multimedia artist and curator working across painting, installation, and video. His work creates systems where material, surface, and light shift constantly to question the essence of the image, its politics and function, and its relationship to emotional states such as numbness, repressed aggression and loss. Drawing from personal narratives, corporate aesthetics and digital imagery, he explores the fragile relationship of representation and reality. His recent work explores how historical moments transform theoretical questions about representation into lived, urgent realities of trauma. Weinfeld’s process blends fluids, humor, and sexuality with a deadpan tone, balancing playfulness and anxiety. Using airbrush and hand-cut stencils, he creates high-tech surfaces, surrendering control to gravity and viscosity. His work invites viewers to confront the tension of mechanical precision and the raw realities of failure, where memory, perception, and materiality collide.
Weinfeld’s work has been widely exhibited. His selected solo exhibitions include: “Wuthering Heights” at Erez Israel Museum Tel Aviv (2025); “Scruff” at Shemi Atelier, Kabri, Israel (2022); “Everything Must Go“, duo exhibition with Omer Sheizaf at The Artist’s Studios, Tel Aviv (2022); “For the Brain is a Lump of Poison” at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2021); “Default” at The Lobby, Tel Aviv (2020) and more. Weinfeld has participated in group exhibitions, such as The Drawing Biennial at the Artists House, Jerusalem (2022), “Skein” at Tel Aviv Museum (2021), “Code vs Code” at Tel Aviv Museum (2018), and more. In 2021, Weinfeld received the Israeli Minister of Culture Young Artist Prize. His works have been purchased by the Tel Aviv Museum, Israeli Knesset collection, and can be found in private collections in Israel and abroad. He is also the co-founder and curator of OFFNOBANK and Ta’ar project spaces. Weinfeld teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
Support: Yoav Weinfeld’s residency is made possible with support from Artis.
