Noa Yafe (b. 1978) is a visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv. She holds a BFA and MFA from The Midrasha School of Art at Beit Berl College.

Yafe’s work explores the tension between reality and its representation – between the thing itself and its image. She examines how illusions are perceived as truths, and how art can expose this duality. In her practice, she blurs the boundaries between mediums, but even more so dismantles the conventions through which we perceive the world. Her inspirations draw from diverse sources, including ideas about the illusion of reality found in Indian philosophy and Hasidic tradition, both of which regard the material world as a shell that conceals a deeper essence. Her work calls for the viewer’s active engagement to complete the experience, offering a space where certainty is destabilized and illusion itself becomes a tool for questioning truth, presence, and perception.

Yafe has presented solo exhibitions at CCA Tel Aviv, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam Museum, Raw-Art Gallery, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, and elsewhere. Her works have been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the University Gallery at Tel Aviv University, the Jerusalem Artists House, the Artists’ Studios in Tel Aviv, Primary Projects in Miami, and Paint Box Gallery in New York. In addition, in 2023 Yafe installed a sculpture in the public space at HaMidron Park in Jaffa-Tel Aviv. Yafe has been awarded several grants and prizes, including the Artis Grant, Outset, Rabinovitch Foundation, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and Mifal Hapais. The artist’s book “Beyond the Distance,” edited by Joshua Simon, was published by Mousse. Her works are held in public and private collections, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.