Dutch-born Yona Verwer is an artist and curator in New York. She creates works that explore identity, terrorism, tikkun olam, kabbala, and the notion of God.

Verwer holds a master’s degree in fine art from the Royal Academy of Art and has shown and curated in galleries and museums nationally and internationally.

Exhibit venues (in part):

Yeshiva University Museum, Andy Warhol Factory, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, the Bronx Museum, Center for Jewish History, Mizel Museum, Reginald Lewis Museum of African-American Art, Stanback Museum, and the Holocaust Memorial Center.

She has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Daily News, the Forward, the Jewish Week and the Jewish Press.

She completed residencies at the PS 122 Studio Program, the Makor Center and the Skirball Center in NYC.

Her “Tightrope” installation, currently at the Y.U. Museum, explores the impact that the lack of an eruv on the Lower East Side has on families with young children and the infirm. Her "Kabbala of Bling" series commented on the appropriation of Kabbala by pop icons. Her “City Charms” amulet photographs invoke protection from acts of destruction on buildings, particularly terror-watch-list targets.

Verwer continues this theme in Temple Talismans; these apotropaic images aim to protect synagogues against attacks.

Her mural work includes a large-scale installation at the SAR High School, Riverdale, NY, and at the Center for Jewish Discovery in NYC.

She is the president & co-founder of the Jewish Art Salon in NYC and serves on the advisory boards of Art Kibbutz, the International Jewish Art Colony, Jewish Design Collective and Jewish Art Now.

Past speaking engagements in NYC were at The Jewish Museum, the JCC Manhattan, the Y.U. Museum, the 14 Street Y, the Educational Alliance, and the Makor / Steinhardt Center.

Current exhibits:

It’s a Thin Line: The Eruv and Jewish Space in New York and Beyond.

At the Y. U. Museum, New York, NY.

Gathering Sparks at the Mizel Museum, Denver, CO.

                                                            

  

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