Noa Yaari

Noa Yaari is an artist, entrepreneur, and art-based knowledge broker. She explores verbal-visual rhetoric in academic, artistic, and daily practices. In her doctoral project, she conceptualized a new grammatical system titled “multiform grammar” to enable a deeper analysis of combinations of words and images in scholarly work. Subsequently, she is in the process of creating software that will help students and scholars use images creatively and effectively in their writing. She exhibited her art, especially drawings and paintings, in galleries and museums in Tel Aviv and is currently specializing in art-based knowledge mobilization. One example is the project she initiated as a Fellow at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) at the St. George campus. In it, she paints on photocopies of books held by the CRRS library and creates with them an installation in the hallway that leads to the library. Her art and educational projects also practice community building and placemaking on campus. 

Publications:

Curation

• “Infantile History,” Department of History, York University, Toronto, 2016-17.
• “Contemporary Art in Toronto: Art that is Shown in Toronto Now,” Department of History, York University, Toronto, 2015-16. 

Solo and Semi-Solo Exhibitions

• “Work and Image at the CRRS Library,” Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto. Forthcoming. 
• “Artist in Residence,” The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. York University, Toronto. 2022-25.
• ”The World – Fire!” in “Painter-Traveler,” Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2008. Curator: Tali Tamir.
• “Jacob’s Dream,” Morasha Cemetery, Ramat HaSharon, 2007. Curator: Naomi Shalev.

Group Exhibitions

• “Infantile History,” the Department of History, York University, Toronto, 2016-17. Curator: Noa Yaari.
• “League,” Hangar in Tel Aviv, 2009. Curator: Galia Yahav.
• “Tel Aviv – My Love,” Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, 2009. Curator: Rachel Sukman.
• “Gift,” Poriya Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2008. Curator: Rakefet Winer Omer.
• “To This Individual,” Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2007. Curator: Naomi Shalev.
• “Doron,” Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2006. Curator: Joshua Simon, Roy Arad and Maayan Staruss.
• “Autobiographic, Biographic,” Herzliya Museum, 2005. Curators: Dalia Levin and Joshua Simon.
• “Hunger,” Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2005. Curator: Noami Aviv.
• “League,” Bait Banamal, Tel Aviv, 2005. Curator: Galia Yahav.
• “Sharon,” Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2004. Curator: Joshua Simon.
• “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Rabbit?” Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2004. Curator: Naomi Aviv.
• “Optimistic Future,” artists for Elem Teenagers at Risk, Hazofe Club, Tel Aviv, 2004. 
• “Samuel Beckett, Noa Yaari, Arik Miranda”, Hamidrasha Gallery, Beit Berl College, 2003. Curator: Yaacov Mishori.
• “Bible’s Sandals”, Comme il Faut, Tel Aviv, 2003. Curator: Irit Segoli.
• “Noa Yaari, Hila Laviv, Hilel Roman”, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2003. Curator: Doron Rabina.
• “Artic 5”, Exhibition of Sharett Foundation Award Winners, Ramat Gan Museum of Art, 2002. Curator: Surin Heller.

Journal Illustration and Cover Art

• “Artist in Residence,” the cover of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Journal, Vol. 30, 2020, Montreal.  
• “Twelve Drawings for the Goddess of Language,” illustration and the cover of Helicon no. 54, sum