Daniela Yaniv-Richter

Daniela Yaniv-Richter (born November 5, 1956) is an Israeli ceramist and sculptor.

Biography

Yaniv-Richter was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and made aliyah to Israel in 1975. She graduated Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem in 1982. She studied further in the Eastern Michigan University till 1983, then proceeding to MFA studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her MFA on 1985.^[1]

Among other subjects, her works deals with replication of natural and man-made objects.^[2]

Yaniv-Richter resides in Jerusalem and has three daughters with her ex-husband, Ilan.^[3]

Shapira Prize, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, 1982
Cash Business Award, Ann Arbor Art Association, Michigan, 1984
Sculpture Award, Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan, 1985
Erim Purchase Award, Ann Arbor Art Association, Michigan, 1987
First Prize, Michigan Ceramics, Selo Shevel Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1987
Alfred and Ilsa Stammer-Mayer Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002
Georges and Jenny Bloch Foundation, Zollikon, Switzerland, 2003
Acquisition Award from the National Lottery, 2003
The Ministry of Education Design Award, 2004. Jury Statement: "Yaniv-Richter professionally creates useful objects of everyday life from ceramic matter. The gap between the names of the objects and their immediate categorization to their appearance raises important questions about essence, value and hierarchy of objects. Her choice of matter is precise and offers a different observation, simple and complex at once.^[4]

"Intermediate Nature" (2009). The Artists Workshops, Jerusalem.
"Clay, Sensation" - the Fifth Israeli Ceramics Biennale (2008). Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
"Heara 10" (2006). Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem.
Ministry of Education and Culture Awards Exhibition (2005). Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
"Design, Art, Design" - the Third Israeli Ceramics Biennale (2004). Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
The Second Israeli Ceramics Biennale (2002). Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.