Dafna Sartiel
About:
Printmaking / Photography / Mosaic / Sculpture Artist.
Graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and worked for years as a designer.
Since 2005, she has been working and specializing in etching and engraving at the Tel Aviv Artists' House Printshop and in her own studio in Tel Aviv.
Since 2007, she has held six solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows, including: Tel Aviv Biennale of Crafts & Design, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (2020, 2023); Local Testimony, Eretz Israel Museum (2017); Fresh Paint 4 - The Greenhouse, Contemporary Art Fair, Tel Aviv (2011); Traces, The 4th National Drawing Biennial, Jerusalem (2010); and many more.
Statement:
Her work captures everyday, local, and often overlooked moments, transforming them through a hybrid filter that combines traditional techniques - such as engraving, etching, and mosaic - with contemporary technologies, including photography, digital image processing, and modern materials, resulting in new, relevant, and universally resonant representations.
Her work often explores the tension between image and content, and the medium through which it is created or presented.
Education:
B.Des. - "Bezalel Academy of art and design", Jerusalem (1986-1990)
Printmaking / etching courses at the print workshop of Tel-Aviv Artists' House (2005-2025)
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 - "Artifacts From The Present", Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2018 - "Blue & White", Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2017 - "Psefasism", Yad Lebanim Gallery, Rishon LeZion, Israel.
2013 - "Disorder", P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2009 - "Here and There", Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2007 - "Urban Nature", Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Public and Private Collections:
2025 - Knesset Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2022 - Knesset Art Collection, Jerusalem, Israel
2012, 2018 - Leo Contini Private Collection, Israel
2011 - START by Serge Tiroch, Tel Aviv, Israel
Print-Making-Of
From a Zinc plate - to an Etching Aquatint
Print (Stop motion video)
"Disorder" Exhibition
Year of production: 2013
Running Time: 2:48 min
Group exhibitions:
2025
- "Memory almost full”, Vitrina Gallery HIT, Holon, Israel.
- "Alef - Ohel”, Artists House, Rishon LeZion, Israel.
2024
- "Measures", The U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Jerusalem, Israel
- "Still (?)”, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Where to Draw Strength From”, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Two Faces”, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2023
- "Tel Aviv Biennale of Craft & Design", Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "White Blood”, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Crisis”, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2022
- "More of the same", Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Acidity”, Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "About Writing”, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Point of View”, TEO, Herzliya, Israel.
2021
- "Further / Here", David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel.
- "R U Talking 2 ME ? ”, Artists House, Rishon LeZion, Israel.
2020
- "Tel Aviv Biennale of Craft & Design", Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "TIME”, The Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel.
- "The new Attributes”, Artists House, Rishon LeZion, Israel.
- "ZORA”, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2019
- "Taanugot", Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Uletiferet”, Benyamini Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- "Int. Miniature Print Exhibition”, Manhattan Graphics Center, NY, U.S.A
- "Local Rorschach”, Artist wall, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2018
- "Pillar of Cloud”, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa, Israel.
2017
- "Tuy Tuy Tuy”, ZUZU Gallery, Emek Hefer, Israel
- "Interior - Exterior”, Danchov House, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- "Local Testimony”, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- "Blue & White" - Artist wall, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2016
- "Int. Miniature Print Exhibition”, Manhattan Graphics Center, NY, U.S.A
- "Neighbourhood”, New Artists House, Rishon LeZion, Israel.
- "8th international printmaking Biennial of Douro”, Portugal.
- "Al Hamakom”, Binyamin Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Secret Art 8 - Bank Leumi”, Bet Mani, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Abstraction in photography”, Jaffa Port Gallery, Israel.
- "Body of work - Etching Exhibition”, Art Space Tel Aviv, Israel.
- "Metropolis”, Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- “Signs of Language” Sarah Erman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015
- "Territorialism”, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Untitled dots com”, Misrad Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- "OOPS”, Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel.
- "Fresh Paint Family” Art fair, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- "Photo Art”, Jaffa Port Gallery, Israel.
- "Artist wall”, Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2014
- "Trapped?”, KG45, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "7th international printmaking Biennial of Douro”, Portugal.
- "Format", Art space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "The Benevolent Tree" ,Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Umm el-Fahem, Israel.
2013
- "Tel-Aviv Photo 2013", Contemporary Photography Fair, Jaffa, Israel.
- "Fine Art Box 3" ,P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2012
- "P8-13", P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Ordinary", Shenkar Gallery, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
- "Migdalim (Towering Above)", Benyamini Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- "Tel-Aviv Photo 2012", Contemporary Photography Fair, Jaffa, Israel.
- "Imagination 2012", Bank Hapoalim, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2011
- "I, Me, Mine", Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Kav ketem ot", Hamigdalor Gallery, Jaffa, Israel.
- "Fresh Paint 4 - Greenhouse", Contemporary Art Fair, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "MegaTinta", Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Imagination 2011", Bank Hapoalim, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2010
- "Reshamim (Traces)", The 4th National drawing biennial exhibition, Jerusalem, Israel.
- "Sleep Paralysis", KG45, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Ein Afeq prints Exhibition", Ein Afeq, Israel.
- "July August's Heat", Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "Lessedra 9th World Art Print Annual Mini Print 2010", Sofia, Bulgaria.
2009
- "Pkaat (Bulb)", Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- "29th Mini Print International of Cadaqués", Spain.
- "Etched Landscape", Beit Gavriel, Zemach, Israel.
- "Lessedra 8th World Art Print Annual Mini Print 2009", Sofia, Bulgaria.
- "Kavim (lines)", The Art Gallery, Gan-Shmuel, Israel.
2008
- "Local scratches 2008", Jerusalem House of quality, Jerusalem, Israel.
- "Israeli Portrait", Ehrlich Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- "Positive - Negative", Gallerina, Bat-Shlomo, Israel.
- "28th Mini Print International of Cadaqués", Spain.
- "4th St. Petersburg Printmaking Biennial", St. Petersburg, Russia.
2007
- "5th Novosibirsk Graphic Art Biennial", Russia.
- "3th International festival of graphic arts", St. Petersburg, Russia.
- "Local Scratches", Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.