Dafna Kaffeman

Dafna Kaffeman was born in 1972 in Jerusalem. Her works, in glass and print, employ Eretz-Israeli fauna as an expression of the mechanisms of commemoration, sacrifice and grief in Israeli society. Her works can be found among the collections of the Israel Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Corning Museum of Glass (New York), and others.

Education
1992-1994 Glass and Ceramics Studies, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem
1999 BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
2002 MFA, Sandberg Instituut, Graduate Program for Art, Amsterdam, NL

Awards and Prizes (selection)
2011 Prize for the Advancement of the Arts, Ministry of Culture
2013 Artist residency, Institut für Künstlerische Keramik und Glas, Koblenz University, Germany
2014-2017 Artist residency, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2016 Prize for creation in the field of Design, Ministry of Culture

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2013 Red Everlasting , Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2015 Without Camouflage, Museum of Craft and Design San Francisco, CA, USA
2017 Cotton Plant, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2021 Aerial Roots, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2021 If You Thirst for a Homeland: Flame-worked glass by Dafna Kaffeman, Chrysler museum of Art, USA

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
2017 Midsummer’s night dream, Jerusalem Print workshop, Jerusalem
2019 Unwillful Movement, Jerusalem Print workshop, Jerusalem