Haya Graetz Ran, Israeli Surrealist Painting Female Circus Performer Acrobat With Cat

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Voluptuous, ala Fernando Botero, female circus performer with spectators and cat. Haya Ran was born in Holon, Israel in 1948 … Read more Voluptuous, ala Fernando Botero, female circus performer with spectators and cat. Haya Ran was born in Holon, Israel in 1948 on the same date as the State of Israel was founded. From 1968 to 1973 Ran lived on Kibbutz Sasa. After her stay on the Kibbutz, she took courses on Graphics at The Technion 1975-1978. Tel Hai Institute
Ran paints with water colors, using a multilayer method, which creates an illusion of tempera. Ran came up with this technique herself, influenced medieval painters. Ran says that the reds, browns, and golds in most of her feminist works are inspired by the performing arts: the circus, clowns, acrobats, dancers, and the fantastic. Haya Ran doesn’t identify today with any particular artistic school. Her works are born out of personal experiences and feelings. They come from the remembrances of her past, of her life and her experiences as a child, and from the fantasies she entertains about them. Her subjects emanate from her private, inner world. Haya Ran focuses on the world of the female. Her women are a peculiar lot. Their dimensions are offer wide, distorted, and grotesque, yet their poses and settings are as enticing and charming as they are sexually arousing. Others of Haya Ran’s women remain attached to elements of a lost childish innocence; dolls, wooden horses, masks, and wooden birds. Her works are executed with watercolors on paper. Her technique resembles that of Renaissance tempera. She superimposes strata and blends them together to create the impression of a past era. She creates not by putting down on paper her sudden impulses, but by devoting painstaking attention to the smallest details over countless hours.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
“Izraeliyot” / Dwek Gallery, Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha’ananim,
“Plowing” / Gerstein Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Ora Krauss.
“Suricattas” / Seemann Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Hagai Segev.
“Encrypting” / The Israeli Artists Gallery, Kabri. Curated by Drora Dekel.
Tokyo, Japan Museum of Art “O”
“Calligraphy” / HaGalleria, Moshav Shoevah. Curated by Tirtzah Yallon Kolton.
ESPACE RACHI, Paris, France. Curated by Hana Landau.
Brucke Gallery, Braunschweig, Germany
Gallery Vandorn, Paris, France
Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel
Grafica 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel

Select Group Exhibitions:
Group Exhibitions
The Second Biennale for Israeli Ceramics Eretz Israel Museum, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv
Stern Gallery, Tel Aviv
Artists:Reuven Rubin, Chaya Graetz Ran, Dorit Feldman, Anna Ticho, Abraham Hadad.
Israeli Portrait Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
Artists: Shoshana Heimann,Genia Berger, Avraham Ofek, Jean David, Jakob Steinhardt, David Sharir, Ruth Schloss Ruth Zarfati Rudi Lehmann and others
With this Ring - Wedding Ceremonies in Contemporary Art Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv
Artists: Nelly Agassi, Lital Dotan, Shai Azoulay,
Avraham Baron Gallery, Beer Sheva
Artists: Miki Kratsman, Adi Nes, Motti Mizrachi, David Tartakover, Michael Druks, Micha Bar Am,
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The Municipal Art Gallery in Beit Yad Labanim, Raanana
Artists: Ofra Zimbalista, Eliaz Slonim, Etti Sharoni and others
Gerstein Gallery, Tel Aviv
Artists: Sigalit Landau, Gad Ullman, Oded Feingersh, Chava Raucher, David Gerstein and others.
Cabri Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kibbutz Cabri
Artists: Elie Shamir, Dan Kedar, Yair Garbuz, Adi Bezalel and others.

Awards and Scholarships:
Artist-in-Residence in Sargadallos, Galicia, Spain. Painting on porcelain.
Hermann Struck award. Granted by Municipality of Haifa.
Artist-in-Residence and Scholarship at ‘Cite Internationale des Artes’, Paris, France. See less