Karen Dolev

Karen Dolev (b. 1994, Jerusalem) is a visual artist based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Jerusalem, 2017) and her Master of Fine Arts (Tel Aviv, 2023). In 2016, she participated in an exchange program at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Dolev's work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries. Her work is included in the collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as well as in private collections in Israel and abroad.
Dolev's work explores the intersection of spirituality and existential depth, as well as industrial production and raw materiality. Starting from a culture of visual abundance, she draws on motifs from New Age aesthetics and the iconography of pop culture. She frequently works with systems of order such as scales, diagrams, catalogs, or spectra. Drawing is central to her practice: using soft pastels on delicate paper, she develops pictorial spaces that unfold a floating, almost ethereal atmosphere.