Times Square Taxi: God's Medallion Painting

Yona Verwer is a Dutch-born, New York-based multidisciplinary visual artist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, ecology, heritage, and transformation. Her practice spans painting, installation, video, and new media, often combining traditional techniques with contemporary narratives. Her most recent series, LIVING WATERS, includes two ongoing projects: · LIVING WATERS – Turning The Tide, which examines the relationship between human behavior and the natural world, using embedded video, painting, and cultural references to explore environmental impact. · LIVING WATERS – IMMERSIONS: Where tradition meets transformation, a body of work reimagining symbolic and cultural rituals through contemporary visual language. Verwer holds an MFA from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Her work has been featured in over 30 museum exhibitions and numerous galleries across the United States and internationally, including the Jerusalem Biennale, the Andy Warhol Factory, the Heller Museum, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, the Bronx Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her artwork is included in the forthcoming book "Heritage: Artists in America Since 1900" (Syracuse University Press, 2025) and she has been published and reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Criticism, The Huffington Post, NRC Handelsblad, and Newsday. In addition to her studio practice, Verwer is active in the arts community as the founding director of the Jewish Art Salon, a global organization supporting contemporary artists exploring cultural and spiritual themes. She is the recipient of the 2024 Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.