Sari Golan

Sari Golan

Sari Golan (born 1982, Kibbutz Urim, Israel) is a curator, writer, lecturer, and social-feminist activist. In 2023 she was appointed Chief Curator of the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art and the Ramat Gan Art Museums.

She holds a B.Ed. with honors in fine art and art education from HaMidrasha – Beit Berl College of Art (2006) and an M.A. in Gender Studies (2010) and Art History (2019) from Tel Aviv University.

Golan has curated dozens of solo and group exhibitions in various art spaces (public, private and commercial) in Israel and around the world (among them Istanbul, Berlin, Budapest and Basel). In 2014, she founded Triangle Art and served as its director until 2023. In 2013, she developed the workshop program “Everything You Were Not Taught in Art School” which has instructed over a thousand artists to date.

Golan founded and managed the non-profit association “Pe’ila” – connecting art and community (2009–2010). From 2007 to 2010, she was the curator and artistic director of Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv. In 2010, she worked at Creative Time organization in New York in the framework of an international conference on art and social change as part of a curatorial fellowship supported by Artis.

In 2023, Golan was named one of Forbes Israel’s 50 Most Influential Women and received a national award from the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel for her outstanding contribution to social change through art.

In 2023, following the events of 7 October, she established the “Art at Dawn” fund, which continues to assist artists from the western Negev (Gaza envelope) and the northern border who were evacuated from their homes due to the security situation. In addition, she helps institutions operating in these areas through fundraising.

Golan has also taught at HaMidrasha – Beit Berl College, Thelma Yellin High School, and Ramon High School and More. She has taught and lectured in various private settings, as well as taught courses for professional career development for artists in various locations, including TAtarbut (Tel Aviv), Hanevi’im Art School (Haifa), the Atelier School (Tel Aviv), Mishkan Museum of Art (Ein Harod), Wilfrid Israel Museum (Kibbutz HaZore’a), Studio of Her Own Women’s Art center (Jerusalem), Art Shelter Gallery (Jerusalem), Redline Residency (Beer Sheva), and the Eshkol Regional Council Youth Center (Gaza envelope) and more.