Naomi Safran-Hon
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EDUCATION

2012                  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 

2008 – 2010   MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2004 – 2008    BA, Summa Cum Laude, Studio Art, Art History, Brandeis University 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025    Twice Broken Heart, SLAG&RX, New York, NY

2024    Time to Return, RX&SLAG, Paris, FR

2022    Soft Power, RX&SLAG, Paris, FR

            Soft Power, Bonisson Art Center, Roignes, FR

            Tight Connections, Slag Gallery, New York, NY

2021    State of Place, Galerie RX, Paris, FR

2020    All My Lovers, Slag Gallery, NY

2018    A Room with No Exit, Slag Gallery, NY

2017    Fragments of Place, curated by Julie McGuire, Marfa Contemporary, TX

2016    Solo Project, VOLTA 12, Basel, Switzerland

            House Without Home, Silber and Rosenberg Art Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland

2015    Painting From Memory, Volta NY

2014    Hard Times: Paintings, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013    Heimat: Chronicle of Absentees, Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherland

2013    Salmat Beton va-Melet Gown of Concrete and Cement , Hartford, CN

            Makom: Chronicle of Absentees, Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

            Wadi Salib, VOLTA NY, New York, NY

2012    Two Times Gray, Slag Contemporary, NY

            Defensive Shield, IMOCC, New York, NY

2011    Home Invasion, Second Guest Bedroom Projects, New York, NY

            Absent Present, Slag Gallery, New York, NY

2008    Shared Future? Brandeis Vision of Coexistence in Palestine and Israel,

            Shapiro Campus Center Gallery, Brandies University, Waltham, MA

2006    Without a Face, Pardes Gallery, Haifa, Israel

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    Rule of Five, SLAG&RX, New York, NY

2023    Support Systems, The Art Gallery, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY

            Material/Inheritance, Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

            Fine Arts Faculty/Staff Exhibition: Part Two, Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2022    Trees, Les Franciscainnes Art Center, Deauville, FR

            Nature, Slag Gallery, NYC

2021    Floating Walls, Lawren M Tisch Gallery, NYC

            Scapes, Slag Gallery, NYC

            Paris Photo, Paris, FR

2019    Refuge, 21c Museum, Bentoville, AK

            Group Exhibition, Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid, Spain

            Methamorphosis -Climate Change, curated by Betty Levine, Hearst Tower Galleries, NY

            Furies, Fairies, Visionaries, Pen and Brush, New York, NY

2018    Building and Rebuilding, Repair The World, Brooklyn, NY 

2017    Far From the Front Line, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

            Art.Now.2017, Hearst Galleries, Hearst Tower, New York, NY

            Personals, Skowhegan, New York, NY

            Slag’s Artists, Independent Brussels Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium

            The Future is Female, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY

            Post-Election, SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson, NY 

2016    Bustan Khayat, Beit Hagefen Gallery, Haifa, Israel

            Ways and Means, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY

            With Passion, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

            Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art, Center for the Art Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD

2015    Of Gentle Birth, Repair the World, Brooklyn, NY

            Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston, NY

            Human Territory, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

            Out of Sight, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

2014    Faux Sho, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

            In Between, Kleindenast Gallery, Koln, Germany

            New Visions: Crown Heights Artists, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

            Burcennial, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY

2013    You Are My Sunshine, Associated Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

            Fragile Territories, LaunchPad, Brooklyn, NY

            Group Dynamics, Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

            A Discourse On Plants, RH Gallery, New York, NY

            Temporal Strata, VOLTA Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2012    GO, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

            Two Times Gray, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

            Ornament and Narrative, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, NJ

            Project 0012, Journeys End, Cape Elizabeth, ME

            Centaurs & Satyrs, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY

            Contentious Conundrums, Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

            The Inaugural Artist Members Show, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

            Lost and Found, Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Pictures, The Museum of New Art Detroit, PASSENGER Project Space,

            Starkweather Gallery, Detroit, MI

2011    Home Invasion, Second Guest Bedroom Project, New York, NY

            Status! Status! Status! Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY

            Broken Homes, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

            Artis, NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL

            Fluidity, Layering, Veiling, Sacred Heart University’s Gallery of Contemporary Art, Fairfield, CT

            Buy What You Love, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY

            Fresh Paint, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA

2010    Videorover, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY

            Girls Just Want to Have Funds, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY

            Evocatecture, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

            Unhinged, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

            Handheld History, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

            Forest of the Trees, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY

            Time After Time, Actions and Interactions, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

            Uncommon Commencement, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

            Pattern of Invasion, The LABA Gallery, 14th Street Y, New York, NY

            MFA Thesis Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2009    MFA First Year Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2008    A Friend Indeed: Contemporary Art and the Academy, Katzen Arts Center Rotunda, Washington DC

            Inside Out, Brandeis Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

            Healing, Community and Transformation: Students Visions from Johannesburg, Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2007    The Rear, Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art 2007, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

            Desert Generation, the Artists' House, Jerusalem and in Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

            Prospect St. Studio – Portrait, Brandeis Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2006    Can you hear what I see? Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

            Freshman Index (Women), Brandeis Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 

2003    Young artist award exhibition, Hecht Museum, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

 

RESIDENCIES:

2024    Cave Painting, op.cit./foundation, Mexico City, Mexico

2019 – 2020    Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace, New York, NY

2016    Art OMI, International Arts Center, Ghent, NY

 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

2023    Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

2021    Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, St. Paul, MN

            (nomination) Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Visual Arts, Santa Monica, CA

2020    Coleen Brown Art Prize

2016    Francis Greenburger Fellowship

2010    Blanksteen Curatorial Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2009    Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship, Yale University, CT

2008    Paul Caine Memorial Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

            Susan Mae Green Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

            Ellen (Ilana) Raskin ’75 Memorial Award, Brandeis University, Waltham,

            Phi Beta Kappa, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

            Slifka Foundation Grant, New York, NY

2007    Remis Award in Creative Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

            Gertrude Carnovsky Prize in Creative Arts, Brandeis University, MA

2006    Ethic Center Student Fellowship, International Center for Ethics,

            Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2004    Slifka Coexistence Scholarship to study at Brandies University

2003    Graduating with Honors, WIZO - High School for the Arts

            Young artist award, Hecht Museum, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

 

COLLECTIONS

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 

John H. Friedman, New York, NY 

Collection of Timothy Hunt, Andy Warhol Collection, New York, NY

Collection of Jehuda Reinharz, President Emeritus of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY

Jimenez-Colon Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Philip Chambon, Chairman of the Board of Nx Medical, Inc., New York, NY

 

PUBLICATIONS & PRESS

2021    Crichton A. “Fifteen Artists from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture” Maine Arts Journal (Summer 2021) 

            Arango J. “Art review: Skowhegan school’s influence, adventurousness on display” Portland Press Herald (May 23, 2021) 

2020    Narro I. "El Hogar Deconstruido" (The Deconstructed Place) Architectural Digest (November 2020)

            Rodney S. “There’s No Place Like Home” The New York Times (May 17, 2020) and online under the title “Paintings that Demolish the Myths of What a Home Should Be” (May 15, 2020) 

            Murphy J. "At Home In The World: Exhibit explores shelter, displacement." Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1/19/2020) 

2017    Horstman F. “The Preliminary Course and the Matière” The Art Section (2017) 

            Rogers K. “Naomi Safran-Hon Fragments of Place” ArtDesk (Winter 2017)

2016    Bishara H. “With Lace and Concrete, an Israeli Artist Reframes 

            Abandoned Palestinian Homes” Hyperallergic (February 29, 2016) 

2015    Frizzell D. “People, Places, Things Tracing Trauma” Depart (Bangladesh) V. 6, Issue 18 (January-June 2015): 88-93.

2014    Rubensteen A. “An Israeli Artist’s Abandoned Spaces” Forward (September 22, 2014) 

2013    Zemel C. “Fixing Memory: Naomi Safran-Hon’s Photo-Album Traveling Between Exile and Return.” Images, 6 (November 2013)

            Safran-Hon, N. “Traveling Between Exile and Return.” Images, (November 2013): 89-110.

            Shemesh, Y. “Omaniot B’conflict.” (Heb: Artists in Conflict) Yediot America (July 18, 2013)

            Alexander, N. “Mevakshot Et Ezerat Hazibur.” (Heb: Asking for Public Help) Ha’aretz (February 24, 2013)

            Haller, V. “Brooklyn Museum Test A Democratic Model.” The Wall Street Journal (February 6, 2013)

            Hooft van Huysduynen, C. “Rendering Politics in Cement and Lace.” Hyperallergic (March 8, 2013) 

            Hooft van Huysduynen, C. “Cement and Lace Paintings Uncover Political Conflicts.” Salon (March 9, 2013) this article originally appeared on Hyperallergic. 

            Lim, S. “Making Solid Works of Art.” The Brooklyn Paper (February 7, 2013)

            Mindell C. “The Zionist Dream as Art: An Israeli artist uses an eclectic mix of materials to explore the landscape of her youth.” Connecticut Jewish Ledger (February 8, 2013)

            Olsen, C. “A Portrait of Three Artists: Naomi Safran-Hon.” The Crown Current. World Press (February 24, 2013)

            Schwendener, M. “Crowdsourced Exhibition Looks Kinds of Familiar.” The New York Times (January 2, 2013)

2012    Editors. “Broken Homes.” The New Yorker (January 23, 2012) 

            Shemesh, Y. “Dochefet Habeton.” (Heb: The Cement Pusher) Yediot America (December 27, 2012)

2011 Ayers, R. “Naomi Safran-Hon.”, ART News (May 2011)

            Holland, C. “Naomi Safran-Hon: Cement, Israel, Palestine, and Paintings.” Dis/patches. Tumblr (23 Sept. 2011)

            Sutton, B. “Broken Homes Brings Down the House.” The L Magazine (January 2012) 

2010    Cannon, K. “Naomi Safran-Hon: Rebuilding History.” Dimensions Art Journal 09 (1), Yale University, New Haven (2010):18-25

2008    Safran-Hon, N. Shared Future? Brandeis Vision of Coexistence in Palestine and Israel. Pardes Publishing house, Haifa (2008)

2004    Matalon, T. “My Draft Resistance.” Bridges 10 (1), Ann Arbor (2004): 52