Smadar Sheffi
Smadar Sheffi () is an Israeli curator, art critic and researcher of contemporary art and culture. Since 2019 she is the Chief Curator at the CACR – Contemporary Art Center Ramla, which she founded. Her bilingual blog, The Window, was established in 2012. Biography. Smadar Sheffi holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently a lecturer at the COLLMAN-College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion. She is a past lecturer at the Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Art Department of the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Her  research interests, among others, are representations of the Holocaust in contemporary art, Israeli art and Modernism. Sheffi’s doctoral dissertation, "From Vienna to Jerusalem: Forgotten portraits by Grete Wolf Krakauer", was written under the direction of Prof. Gannit Ankori. Continuing her research on contemporary Israeli art, Dr. Sheffi recently delivered lectures at the Summer University for Jewish Studies, Hohenems, Austria (“Food in Modern Israeli Art”); The Jewish Museum, Munich (“Reflection on the ‘other’: The image of the Arab in Israeli Art”); and at the American University, Washington DC at the conference Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel (“Portraying states of  uprootedness in Israeli art”). Dr. Sheffi is Chief Curator of the CACR – Contemporary Art Center Ramla, a new art initiative she launched in 2019. The curatorial program led by Dr. Sheffi embraces difference and multiple viewpoints as core values, addressing issues of diversity and civil society as reflected in contemporary Israeli art. Dr. Sheffi is the art critic for Galei Zahal Radio since 2007, and for 20 years was the art critic for leading Haaretz. She is the author of numerous catalog articles and gallery texts, an art consultant, and leader of in-depth Israeli and international art tours. Smadar