Dafna Rehavia

Dafna Rehavia is a mixed media artist and art psychotherapist whose practice is grounded in raw process art, fiber, and found-object installations, and video-art. Her work explores the body and the self as sites of injury, memory, and transformation. Through symbols drawn from ritual, clothing, and domestic objects, Rehavia addresses women’s existential conditions, community trauma, migration, and the aftereffects of violence. Fiber functions in her work as a material of both wounding and repair — a healing agent that absorbs vulnerability while holding space for resilience.

Dafna Relocated to Pittsburgh from Tel Aviv in 2003. She holds a PhD in Therapeutic Arts, Psychology and Cultural Studies from Derby University, UK, and an MA in Creative Art Therapy from Drexel University, Philadelphia, US. She has exhibited across the US, Europe, and Israel, and has publications in art and art therapy journals, and chapters in two books.