Tel Aviv Museum of Art announces the winners of the 2021-2022 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art
Shira Zelwer, Event, 2020. Photo: Shai Ben Efraim.
TEL AVIV
.- The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art Committee has awarded the prize to two artists: Shira Zelwer is the winner of the 2021 Prize and Roni Taharlev of the 2022 prize. The prize carries a US$ 10,000 grant to each artist and an accompanying solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Zelwers exhibition will open in June 2022, and Taharlevs exhibition will take place during 2023.
Eighty-three artists submitted applications for the prize this year; the Prize Committee included TAMAs Chief Curator Mira Lapidot, curator Emanuela Calò, Adv. Gil Brandes, TAMA Board of Directors member Doron Sebbag and Dr. Doron J. Lurie. Observers: TAMA Director Tania Coen-Uzzielli and founder of the Prize, Dubi Shiff.