Tigist Yoseph Ron
Tigist Yoseph Ron was born in 1977 in Gondar, Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel in 1984. Lives and works in Ra’anana, Israel.
During the first years of her career as a graphic designer, she mainly worked on projects that were concerned with the Ethiopian community in Israel. Today her works refer to the concept of home, to womanhood, motherhood and childhood memories.

Education
2003 Visual Communications, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
2006-2016 Drawing and painting under Zvika Lachman, the Meyerhoff Art Education Center, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2018-2022 Drawing and painting under David Nipo, Hatahana Studio, Tel Aviv

Grants and Prizes
2019 The 2019 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art
2024 Artis grant and residency, Surf Point, York, Maine

Solo Exhibitions
2020 “The White Paper is Black Within”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2022 “Tilted Walls”, Braverman Gallery
2023 “Beyond order”, Braverman Gallery

Group Exhibitions
2018 “In Her Place”, joint exhibition with Mimi Tasama Sibaho, Jaffa Museum
2018 Joint exhibition with Nirit Takele, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2019 “The Color Line”, Sapir College’s Gallery
2021 “Transformation Difficulties”, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia
2022 “Exmnesia”, Cosmo, Rome
2022 “Neaga”, On the Seam Museum, Jerusalem
2022 “Works on Paper”, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2023 “YaYahode”, 1-154 art fair, New York
2024 “I don’t want to forget”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2024 “Our Father”, Zuzu Gallery
2024 “War and Peace – 50 years of the Jerusalem print workshop”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2025 “New Works”, Jerusalem Print Workshop