The work of Israeli artist Tel Aviv-born Michal Rovner has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Against Order? Against Disorder? at the Venice Biennale (2003) and Michal Rovner: The Space Between, a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2002). In 1978, Rovner co-founded the Camera Obscura Art School in Tel Aviv. She lives in New York.
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