NAOMI SAFRAN-HON

Education:

2008 – 2010 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2004 – 2008 BA, Summa Cum Laude, Studio Art (highest honors), Art History, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Solo Exhibitions:

2012 Upcoming-solo show at Brandt Galerie, Amsterdam

2012 Defensive Shield, IMOCC, New York, NY

2011 Home Invasion, Second Guest Bedroom Projects, New York, NY

2011 Absent Present, Slag Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Shared Future? Brandeis Vision of Coexistence in Palestine and Israel, Shapiro Campus Center Gallery, Brandies University, Waltham, MA

2006 Without a Face, Pardes Gallery, Haifa, Israel

Group Exhibitions:

2012 Lost and Found, Museum of New Art, Detroit

2011 Status! Status! Status!, AGWF and Interstate Projects, New York, NY

2011 Broken Homes, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

2011 Group Show, Artis at NADA Art Fair, Miami, Fl

2011 Fluidity, Layering, Veiling, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Fairfield, CT

2010 Girls Just Want to Have Funds, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY

Evocatecture, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

Unhinged t;/em> , Gallery 263 , Cambridge, MA

Handheld History, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY

Forest of the Trees, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY

Time After Time, Actions and Interactions, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Uncommon Commencement, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

Pattern of Invasion, The LABA Gallery, 14th Street Y, New York, NY

MFA Thesis Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2009 MFA First Year Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2008 A Friend Indeed: Contemporary Art and the Academy, Katzen Arts Center Rotunda, Washington DC

Inside Out, Brandeis Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Healing, Community and Transformation: Students Visions from Johannesburg, Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2007 The Rear, Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art 2007, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

Desert Generation, the Artists' House, Jerusalem and in Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Prospect St. Studio – Portrait, Brandeis Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2006 Can you hear what I see? Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Freshman Index (Women), Brandeis Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2003 Young artist award exhibition, Hecht Museum, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

Awards and Honors:

2010 Blanksteen Curatorial Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT t;/strong>

2009 Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2008 Paul Caine Memorial Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Susan Mae Green Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Ellen (Ilana) Raskin ’75 Memorial Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Phi Beta Kappa, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Slifka Foundation Grant, New York, NY

2007 Remis Award in Creative Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Gertrude Carnovsky Prize in Creative Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2006 Ethic Center Student Fellowship, International Center for Ethics,
Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2004 Slifka Coexistence Scholarship to study at Brandies University

2003 Graduating with Honors, WIZO - High School for the Arts

Young artist award, Hecht Museum, Haifa University, Haifa,
Israel

Published Work:

Safran-Hon, N. Shared Future? Brandeis Vision of Coexistence in Palestine and Israel. Pardes Publishing house, Haifa, 2008

Matalon, T. “My Draft Resistance.” Bridges 10 (1) p. 52