Shahar Yahalom (b.1980, Israel) received a BFA from Ha’midrasha School of Art, Israel (2006). Graduated MFA at Colombia University, New York (2014).

Yahalom’s works portray intricate scenes that often perceived as amorphous occurrences but a closer look reveals that each sculpture contains multiple bodies stuck to one another. The sculpture fuses the figures together and randomly suspend them in time. The result is a structure that undermines the inherent hierarchy of the moment that it represents, an existence that is static, frozen, and indifferent, an immortal artistic object that does not change. These properties do not stem solely from the immortality of the object, but also from the fact that it was never alive. The appearance of the sculpture as a still object that represents a living body establishes an equation where the very dimension of life is the unknown variable.

Yahalom is a recipient of The Bronner Residency, Goethe Institut and Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019), Encouragement of creativity prize, ministry of culture, Israel (2017), Sharpe – Walentas studio program NY (2014) and the Young Artist Prize Israeli Ministry of Culture (2011). Exhibitions include: Odile Ouizeman Gallery, Paris (2019), “Nut case” Noga Gallery Tel Aviv (2018), NBL Project, Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland (2017), “Walter Benjamin, Archive/Exile”, Tel Aviv Museum (2016), Zabladowicz Collection, London (2015), The Armory Show NY (2015), Inside-out Museum, Beijing (2014) Aran Cravey gallery LA (2014), Macro Museum, Rome (2013); Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv (2012) “Culturescapes” Basel (2011); Tel Aviv Museum (2011); The Armory Show, New York (2010);Herzlyia Biennale (2009); Herzlyia Museum (2008).