Artist Statement

Engaging various mediums, including installation, assemblage, and a signature manual paper-cutting technique, I explore personal narratives and multi-hyphen identities within the context of immigration, assimilation, and conflict. The manual paper-cutting contains a long-duration meditative process, one that stands in contrast to the fast-paced digital world we are living in; I seek to look deeper into the consequences of our actions, finding high importance in staying present with the void. Drawing from my Japanese heritage, I cut negative spaces within a singular piece of black paper through which I explore negative space as a present element, one that creates a space rather than being mere emptiness. 

Coming from a multicultural family, my works often combine a diversity of materials that echo longing for unknown singular origins and fractured notions of home. As a Japanese-American-Israeli, I use objects, crafts, and heritage techniques to nurture my sense of belonging, rooting my work with underlying narratives.

Through my practice, I attempt to reconcile what can be seen as odds. I often merge flora patterns and imagery of destruction to consider the emotional camouflage mechanisms we develop as individuals and as a society, especially around conflict and loss. Through the juxtaposition of patterns of destruction and nature, I raise questions about the similarities and differences within these cycles. I explore how camouflaging the painful reality can both help and harm us, pushing us to surpass and survive while allowing us to overlook what should not be ignored.

The materials and the subject matter in my work rely on both the present and the absence in order to construct images that I consider to be full, images that contain the gaps, the void, and the absence. Through a combination of methods and materials, I probe broader questions about dichotomies, such as positive-negative, hope-reality, brutality-beauty, and destruction-growth. These contrasts inhabit a single space that’s shared by the growing population of individuals with intersectional identities, reflecting the complexities and contradictions we experience in our lives.

Noa Yekutieli (b.1989, USA)  lives and works in Tel Aviv; Los Angeles, and New York.

Solo Exhibitions:

2025

  • On The Seam Museum, Jerusalem, Israel-Palestine (forthcoming)

2024

  • The Intimacy of Distance, Hannah Traore Gallery, New York, USA

  • No Longer — Not Yet, ISCP, Brooklyn, New York

2023

  • Another Language, (3-person exhibition) Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel

  • Collective Conscious (3-person exhibition), Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy

  • The Presence Between Two Spaces (chapter 2), Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany

  • The Presence Between Two Spaces (chapter 1), Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich, Germany

2021

  • We say it’s the nature of things, Inga Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2020

  • Holding Space, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany

2019

  • Degrees of Separation, Kunstverein Augsburg, Germany

  • Pedestal, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2018

  • Modern Portrait, NEW POSITION (solo booth), Art Cologne, with Galerie Sabine Knust, Cologne, Germany

2017

  • The Other Side, Public Art Installation, Los Angeles, USA

  • Meeting Place, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany

  • Fractured Water, Israeli-Palestinian Pavilion, Nakanojo Biennale, Nakanojo, Japan

2015

  • Transitions, Open Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Particles, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Around The Cracks, Sommer Frische Knust, Bad Gastein, Austria

  • While They Were Moving, They Were Moved, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Reflecting On Shadows, Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Uncontainable, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel

  • What Doesn't Bend Breaks, Gallery Schimming, Hamburg, Germany

  • The Magnifying Glass and the Telescope, p/art, Hamburg, Germany

2014

  • Through The Fog, The Distance, Wilfrid Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea, Israel

2013

  • Between All Our Intentions, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel

  • Incorporeal Reality, with Yael Balaban, Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

  • 1952, Special installation project, Fresh Paint art fair, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • 1952, Givat Haim Gallery, Givat Haim Ehud, Israel

  • A Document of a Passing Moment, Artstation Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2012

  • Baggage, Al Ha'tzuk Gallery, Netanya, Israel

2011

  • We Forgot It In People, Opus DV, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2024

  • Impersonating Myself/Becoming Myself, Yellow Box Museum, Qingdao, China

  • Common Ground: Israeli Art Meets Archaeology, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

  • When Things Fall Apart, Wilfrid Museum, Kibutz Ha’zorea, Israel

  • Heart wisdom alone will repair, Jaffa Museum, Jaffa, Israel

  • A Sea Desert Baggage, Inga Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • The Horror Will Be Honored, Inga Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2023

  • De(con)struction; Ruins in Reverse, MA Curatorial Practice, SVA, New York

  • I will dress you with a concrete dress, Inga Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2022

  • IFPDA print fair, Galerie Knust Kunz, New York

  • Soft and Hard, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

  • Idyll, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany

  • Nature Force, Inga Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2021

  • Age of Ultra Anxiety, Flux Factory, NYC, USA

  • RESET, Kunstmuseum, Ahlen, Germany

  • The State of Things, BIENALSUR, Contemporary Art Museum of Rosario, Argentina 

  • Spring Break Art Show, NYC, USA

  • Impersonating Myself/Becoming Myself, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, China

  • An Ahistorical Daydream, A.I.R 14th Biennale, NYC, USA

  • Waiting Room, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, USA

  • Art Cologne Art Fair, Galerie Gisela Clement, Cologne, Germany

2019

  • Internally: Emotional Landscape From Israel, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  • O Prato, Fundação Arte e Cultura, Luanda, Angola

  • Attempt to Raise Hell, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

  • Didn’t You Know What You Were Carrying On Your Back?, Rosalux Art Space, Berlin, Germany 

  • Beyond the Veil, Art Life For The World Gallery, Venice, Italy

  • Impersonating Myself/Becoming Myself, Creation Center, Shanghai, China

  • Artist Dairy, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa, Israel

  • Tsundocu, Zebulun Gallery, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

2018

  • I To Eye, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

  • 70.70.70 Israeli Artists, JCC Santa Barbara, USA

  • The Esthetic of Inferno, Zebulon Gallery, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

  • "24:7", Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel

2017

  • Zaz 10TS, “24:7” video takeover in Time Square, NYC, USA

  • 2nd Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China

  • Art Cologne with Sommer Frische Knust, Cologne, Germany

  • On The Edge, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

2016

  • Höhenrausch, Eigen+Art Lab, Berlin, Germany

  • Women’s Work, Ra’anana Gallery, Ra’anana, Israel

  • Group exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • Group exhibition, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2015

  • On Site Festival, Taipei, Taiwan

  • There Is There, StArt Collection, Jaffa, Israel

  • Cut Out Line, Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba, Israel

  • Group exhibition, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • ART15 with Alon Segev Gallery, London, UK

  • Forgiveness, Municipal Art Gallery, Rishon Le’zion, Israel

  • Jasmine Scent, Gallery 48 for Contemporary Art, Tira, Israel

  • Baggage, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany

  • Paper Art, Jaffa Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Tabula Rasa, Barrer Art Center, Ma'alot Tarshiha, Israel

  • Discovering Continents, Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2014

  • Gestures, Artstation Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Group exhibition, Galerie Musee Kums, Antwerp, Belgium

  • Partners, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2013

  • Paper Art in Israel, 2nd paper biennale, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • The Female Being, The Zimmer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Point of Views, Artstation Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • Art Vienna Art Fair with Marina Gisich Gallery, Vienna, Austria

  • SWAB Art Fair, with Artstation Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

  • Art Moscow Art Fair with Marina Gisich Gallery, Moscow, Russia

  • A Station in Time, The Old Train Station, Kfar Yehoshua, Israel

2012

  • Golconda Exchange, Contemporary by Golconda Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • On a Small Scale, Zadik Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • Fresh Paint Art Fair, with Artstation Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Jaffa Salon of Modern Art, Jaffa, Israel

  • Group exhibition, Gallery P8, Jaffa, Israel

2011

  • Other Places, Ba'alie Hamelaha, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • Portrait exhibition, Riviera Gallery, Bat-Yam, Israel

  • Sea Breeze, public artwork, Bat-Yam, Israel

  • ZeZe, Bar Yohai, Tel Aviv, Israel

 Awards & Grants:

  • Harpo Foundation Grant (2023)

  • ARTIS Exhibition Grant (2023)

  • ARTIS Residency Grant (2022)

  • Young International Artist Award by OUTSET & TAAC (2014)

  • OUTSET, exhibition grant (2014)

  • Deutsche Bank Israel, exhibition grant (2014)

  • The Israeli Lottery Council for Culture and Art books grant (2015)

Residencies:

  • ISCP Residency, NYC, USA (Sep. 2022 - Feb. 2023)

  • The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel (December 2021)

  • Fundação Arte e Cultura, Luanda, Angola (Sep. 2019)

  • Reciprocity, Asylum Arts, Los Angeles, California (April 2019)

  • The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel (July 2018)

  • Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan (Oct-Dec 2015)

  • Sommer Frische Kunst Residency, Alp Mountains, Bad Gastein, Austria (July 2015)

Works In Collections:

  • The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

  • Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Israel

  • Discount Bank Collection, Israel

  • ORS Collection, Israel

  • Jaglom Collection, Israel

  • Fishman Collection, Israel

  • Ann & Ari Rosenblatt Collection, USA

  • The Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts (MMP), Morocco

  • Various international private collections