YAYA

Tigist Yoseph Ron
May 8 – June 27, 2025

About This Exhibition

Ethiopian-born Israeli artist Tigist Yoseph Ron followed her 2024 residency at Surf Point Foundation in Cape Neddick, ME with a debut U.S. solo exhibition at the Fridman Gallery in New York, NY in early 2025. In partnership with the Fridman Gallery, MJM is pleased to exhibit the artist’s new paintings, which capture the complex emotional dissonance between Ron and her late father. The starting point for her work generally is a person she is close to, but as the process progresses, the specific identity of the person is slightly obscured in order to emphasize the movement and rhythm that are created.

About the Artist

Tigist Yoseph Ron was born in Gondar, Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel in 1984. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, she also studied drawing and painting at the Meyerhoff Center, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and at Hatahana Studio, Tel Aviv. Her work has been exhibited at Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jaffa Museum, and the Fridman Gallery, New York, NY.