Resume
Education
2019-2021 MFA with Honors, Haifa University.
2018 Degree in Community Arts with Honors, Beit Berl College.
2014 Degree in Leadership and Management With Honors, Roger Williams University, RI.
2013-2017 BA in Visual Arts with Honors, Haifa University.
Career
2021-Current Co-founder, Shahinat Burtuqal.
2021-Current Adjunct Art lecturer, Haifa University.
2020-2022 Project Coordinator, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and Umm Al Fahm Art Gallery.
2019-2020 FLTA and Adjunct Lecturer, Mercy College, NY.
2017-2019 Public Relation Coordinator, The Collaborative Art Center of Givat Habiba.
Honors and Awards
2022 Best experimental short film, Jerusalem international film festival.
2021 Mifal Hapayis Prize for Arts and Sciences.
2021 Certificate of Excellence Award Haifa University, MFA Degree.
2017 The American-Israel Cultural Foundation Award The American-Israel Cultural Foundation.
2017 Certificate of Excellence Award Haifa University, BA Degree.
2015 The Young Artist's Competition Hecht Museum.
Collections
University of Haifa President’s Art Collection.
Braverman Gallery Art Collection.
Private art Collector.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Ahmad, Muhammed and Hamdan, Forum Schlossplatz, Anna Schiestl. (Switzerland)
2021 Domiciliation, The art gallery of Haifa University, Sharon Poliakin.
2018 The Nomad Artist Exhibition, the Nomad Art Residency, Sheila Zago. (Cairo)
2017 Kathiban Mahila, The Art Gallery of Haifa University, Sharon Poliakin.
2017 Purgatory, The Art Gallery of Haifa University, Sharon Poliakin.
Group Exhibitions
2023 Tooth, DÚN LAOGHAIRE Institute of Visual Arts (DIVA). (Ireland)
2023 The Autonomous Art Biennial Herzliya, Dr Roee Berner and Rula Khoury.
2023 Overdose 2, Masaha Gallery, Asala and Elias Wakim.
2023 Cleaving the Wind into Fragments, Braunschweig University of Arts, Veronika Mehlhar. (Germany)
2022 Scattered Shared Spaces, Beit Hagefen art Gallery, Yael Messer and Thalia Hoffman.
2021 Mifal Hapais 2021, Umm Al-Fahm Art Gallery, Haneen Abed and Nuga Davidson.
2021 Heimspiel, Memo Kunsthalle, Cornelia Renz. (Germany)
2021 Body text, Bar Ilan University, Nurit Jacobs Yinon.
2020 trespassing, Museum of Islamic Art, Dr. Sigal Barkai.
2019 Exercise Y2, Beit Hagefen Art Gallery, Hanina abed.
2019 From Now On, Edmond De Rothschild Center, Nogah Davidson.
2019 Wow it’s absurd, amekarer Art Gallery, Yael Fibak.
2017 After the Deluge, Beit Hagefen, Yael Messer.
2017 From the Village You Came, And to the Village You Shall Return, Yanko Dada Museum, Ein Hod.
2016 Tearing Marks, Meshunaa art Gallery, Yael fibak.
2015 The Young Artist's Exhibition, Hecht Museum.
Bio
Yara Kassem Mahajena (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist from Palestine and a co-founder of "Shahinat Burtuqal", the first contemporary digital platform that seeks to bridge Palestinian artists locally and across the diaspora, as well as "Al Mi'sara", The Palestinian contemporary art forum. Her work explores trauma, with a recent focus on political trauma and its connection to animal resistance in Palestine. Yara earned her Bachelor's (2017) and Master's degree (with honors) from Haifa University, and a community art degree (with honors) from Beit Berl College. She also holds a degree (with honors) in leadership, project management, and politics from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, USA. Yara has worked as a public relations coordinator at the Givat Haviva Art Gallery and as a project coordinator at Bazelal Academy and Umm Al Fahm Art Gallery Excellence Center for Arts and Design. She taught foreign language through art as a Fulbright adjunct lecturer at Mercy College in NY and politics in arts as an adjunct lecturer at Haifa University. Yara has participated in several art residencies, including The Nomad Curator in Cairo, Egypt; The Gästeatelier Krone in Aarau, Switzerland, and The BS Projects in Braunschweig, Germany.