Artist Spotlight Tour: Rotem Tamir 

Sunday, September 29 at 2 PM

Join the artist of Rima: Passages in Sephardic Sculpture as she explores her North-African Jewish heritage and the strength and resilience of generations of women, their familial traditions, and artistic craft.

About the Artist

Rotem Tamir is an artist whose work delves into the traditions of object-making, tracing their evolution as they traverse time and space alongside their carriers. Through playful, material-driven processes, her creations explore themes of cultural fragmentation and displacement. Drawing inspiration from global heritages of pre-industrial domestic applied crafts, Tamir both honors their origins and reinvigorates them as subjects of contemporary inquiry into place, belonging, and post-feminist politics.

Originally from Israel, Tamir immigrated to the United States in 2011. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Sculpture at the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota. Tamir holds a Master's Degree in Fine Art from VCUarts in Richmond, VA, and a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Jerusalem. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions across the United States and internationally, including venues such as the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the Harn Museum in Gainesville, FL, and the Artists' House in Tel Aviv.

Tamir's achievements include residencies at prestigious institutions like Sculpture Space in Utica, NY, Franconia Sculpture Park in MN, and Art OMI International Arts Center. She has also received notable awards such as the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and the 2021 McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists. Tamir resides and works in Minneapolis, MN, with her partner and their son.