Dania Latar

Dania Latar was born in 1980 in Israel. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Dania is a figurative-expressive painter, and works with oil, charcoal and pastels.Her subjects include portraits, life drawings as well as large scale narrative paintings.

Artist statement
People contain in their faces their time, period and culture. The way people think and feel affects their face muscles and eventually engraved on their appearance. This is why I find figurative painting the most interesting. My main media are oil, charcoal and pastels, on surfaces that include mostly paper and canvas but also resins and occasionally ice. Part of my work is life drawing from quick poses; other portraits come from my inner world – more or less famous characters that hold significance for me; and there are also tributes to creations in other fields that inspire me.
My painting is always an attempt to capture a moment, whether I paint from life, photo or memory. Time never stops and people change so there is urgency. Painting is like a quest to catch life so it will not “get away”.

Art studies at the faculty of Arts - Hamidrasha at Beit Berl.
Master’s degree in English Literature from Tel Aviv University (with honors).

Recent exhibitions

Solo Exhibition

2018 Sharp angles (portraits & life drawings), Reut Rua gallery, Israel.

Group Exhibitions

2019 Art: key to conflict resolution, international exhibition. Athens, Greece. Curator: Vasia Deliyianni.

2019 Long ago (self-portraits), N.D Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel. Curator: Ronit Hadad.

2018 Nope, still can't see any difference, Duck&Dodo art group, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curators: Ksenia Nazarov and Olga Yerushalmy.

2017 VITA TUA, VITA MEA, Con-Temporary gallery, Venice Italy. Curator: Abramo 'Tepes' Montini.