HANI SHAFRAN
Hani Shafran was born and raised in Israel. She immigrated to Canada in 1977 where she graduated from the New School of Art in Toronto, Canada in 1981.
Hani soon returned to Israel where she participated in numerous group shows throughout the 1980s and helped foster a small but important women’s art movement. Much of her sculptural work at this time focused on sensual forms crafted from handmade paper and textured cloth, evocative of the “Yoni.”
In the 1990s Hani returned to North America, though now to the US. Here she evolved her art, working with bronze sculpture and presenting flying tumbleweeds and giant pods in varied and multiple mediums.
Throughout the 2000s, Hani participated in numerous group art shows as a member of both the women’s art group Eco Art and the Women’s Art Caucus of LA. This included the November 2004 Soho20 Gallery group show in NYC and The Art and Science of Climate Change show at La Sierra University in Riverside, CA.
In 2023 Hani was included in a group show “ All Media” at the Irvine center for the arts and a solo show of her prints & photography in Exhibizone magazine.
Hani is currently a marriage and family therapist.
Raven & Agave
(Photograph on Eco print 11'/9')
Eco Printing is a technique i use that integrates my walks in nature, foraging leaves, then bundling them around spools with paper or cloth and boiling them to release the dye found naturally in the plants.
I later print my photographs on top of those papers. ( I have ruined a few printers in the process.)