Sharon Ya'ari
Sharon Ya'ari (Israeli, born 1966), Dobrozin, 2001, chromogenic print mounted facing Plexiglas, 48 3/4 x 61 1/2 in. Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2003.18.
Born in 1966, Sharon Ya’ari lives in Tel Aviv and is currently a senior lecturer in the Master of Fine Arts program, as well as in the Photography Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. As Ya’ari states on his biographical website, “photography as a medium is uniquely able to cope with the complex interrelations of imagination, historical knowledge, and the sociopolitical present.” His works have been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions and are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, in Germany; the Jewish Museum, New York; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.