Biography
Yael Toren is a multi-disciplinary artist born in 1960. For many years, as part of her family tradition, she has been deeply involved in ancient illuminated manuscripts, researching these rare documents in archives around the world.
Toren did her Bachelors with honors at Bezalel Academy of art and in addition, she studied stage design and history of art at Tel Aviv University. She has recently won first prize in the final exhibition of MFA studies at Haifa University for her 3D animation art work.
In the series of video works using 3D technology Toren deals with issues of time and history, birth and extinction, emigration and a situation of being a refugee, coming to fruition and disintegrating while the human imagery and his fate in the 21 century, are at the heart of the experience of living.
