Artist Bio

Karen Dolev is a visual artist based in Tel Aviv. In her art practice, Dolev explores the intersection of the spiritual and the profound, the industrialized and the crude. Drawing on a culture of visual abundance, she references new age aesthetics and popular culture iconography, often working with systems such as scales, charts, catalogs, and spectrums. She works primarily in drawing, using soft pastels on paper to articulate suspended, ethereal spaces.

Dolev holds a BFA and MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem, 2017; Tel Aviv, 2023) and participated in a student exchange program at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2016). Dolev has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries, and has received grants from Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, and the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts. Her works are held in the collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and in private collections in Israel and internationally.