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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.

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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

CV

Visitors viewing augmented reality videos at the “Troubled Waters” installation in Amsterdam, 2019

Holy Waters / Hella War at the Jerusalem Biennale, 2024