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Current Exhibitions
Artists on Antisemitism II
Hyams Museum at Temple Beth Sholom
Roslyn Heights, NY
Sept. 16 - Dec. 8, 2024, Every day 9-6
Holy Sparks
UCLA Hillel
Los Angeles, CA
Nov. 7 Dec. 13, 2024
Grant Recipient
The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture honored me a 2025 Fellowship Grant to complete my series Living Waters.
Dutch-born Yona Verwer is a multidisciplinary visual artist and curator, living and working in New York City. Her creative practice explores heritage, immigration, ecology and spirituality.
Verwer’s work has been exhibited widely in the US and internationally in over 30 museum exhibitions, including the Jerusalem Biennale, Heller Museum, Reginald Lewis Museum of African-American Art, Yeshiva University Museum, Ein Harod Museum, the Bronx Museum, Mizel Museum, the Holocaust Memorial Center.
Her work has been written about in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Criticism, Ars Judaica, The Huffington Post, and many others.
Verwer holds a master’s degree in fine art from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Recent exhibitions and press
81 Leonard Gallery, NYC -Artists on Antisemitism
Jerusalem Biennale - Activate; a New York Women’s Perspective
Times of Israel, My Long 5th of July Jewish Cultural Crawl in NYC, Van Wallach, August 7, 2024
The Forward, The distressing truth behind an exhibit about antisemitism — it’s always timely, Stav Ziv, July 5, 2024
Jewish Standard, Artists on antisemitism - Local artist’s downtown gallery reacts to our new world, Joanne Palmer, July 3, 2024
Bet Magazine Mosaico, “Artists on Antisemitism”: la mostra collettiva sull’antisemitismo apre a New York, Pietro Baragiola, June 30, 2024
NY Jewish Week / JTA, A Tribeca Gallery is showcasing art about antisemitism, including a Hitler-Kanye West portrait, Julia Gergely, June 24, 2024
The Jewish Press, Jewish Artists Take on Jew-Hate, Richard McBee, June 24, 2024
Visitors viewing augmented reality videos at the “Troubled Waters” installation in Amsterdam, 2019
Holy Waters / Hella War at the Jerusalem Biennale, 2024