Yael Kanarek (born 1967) is an Israeli American artist based in New York City that is known for pioneering use of the Internet and of multilingualism in work of art.
[2] Her pioneering online art practice was featured in 2002 Whitney Biennial, which included a World of Awe portal and a series of related drawings.
As an Israeli-American artist, one of her works involved rewriting the entire Torah- both in Hebrew and English- by changing the gender of all the characters within it.
In 2017, Kanarek was awarded a commission by the US State Department's Art in Embassies program to create a large-scale sculpture for the new consulate in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Set in an undetermined future past, it reveals the story of a lone traveler who searches for a lost treasure in a parallel world called Sunset/Sunrise.
The narrative first appeared in paintings, followed by performance and the early net art website Love Letters from a World of Awe in 1995.
[7] Kanarek has been recognized in the United States and abroad with awards including the Rockefeller 2005 New Media Fellowship, 2003 Netizens Webprize, and CNRS/UNESCO Lewis Carroll Argos prize in France, and World Technology Network (WTN) 2014.
Kanarek has also completed artist residencies at Eyebeam,[8] Harvestworks, Civitella Ranieri, and the Mamuta Art and Media Center.