Born in 1981, Iva Kafri graduated from the Ecole National Superieure de Beaux Arts de Paris, France (ENSBA) with a BFA and MFA. Part of her MFA was completed at Hunter College, New York. She has displayed her work at major institutions in Israel and abroad, such as the Haifa Museum of Art, the Petach Tikva Art Museum, the Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Tape Modern in Berlin, “SOX” in Berlin and the Tilton Gallery in New York. Kafri’s paintings are constructed from abstract and poetic installation art which transform her paintings into an experience of space through the fresh use of new materials, such as tape, wallpaper, spray paint and Perspex with acrylic.

These materials are used as lines, spots and forms filling the space and transforming it into a three-dimensional mural encounter. The painted space that results, or installation, invites viewers to penetrate and experience a spectacular but fragile mural encounter from the inside, in the intermediate state that is destruction and chaos throbbing with a buoyant and fluorescent pulse.