For years Tamar Manor-Friedman has been maintaining a professional and admirable curatorial model that combines an independent curatorial practice with a serious and profound academic research. Her fields of work are broad and encompass historical displays, Israeli art, and international Modern art. The curatorial model she formulated is uncompromising, and her commitment to the profession of curating and the subjects of her research are apparent in her work.

Manor-Friedman curated exhibitions with significant importance in the study of the history of pre-state Israeli art and the study of Israeli art, including The "Botanist's Brush: Shmuel Charuvi's Drawings for the Hareuveni Floral Treasury of the Land of Israel" (2005, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem), "Leon Engelsberg-A Retrospective" (2006, Tel Aviv Museum of Art), and "The Birth of Now-the 1960s in Israeli Art" in collaboration with the curator Yona Fischer, in the framework of the project Sixty Years of Art in Israel (2007, Ashdod Museum of Art). The quality of her work in the field of contemporary art was manifested in the IV Biennale for Drawing which Manor-Friedman curated at the Jerusalem Artists' House in 2011.

Manor-Friedman worked as a curator and a museologist who engages in planning displays and writing programs in various institutions including the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Beit Hatfutsot Museum, David Tower Museum, and Beit Gabriel. For these accomplishments, which are a paragon of professional, thorough, and responsible curatorial wok, the jury committee finds Tami Manor-Friedman to be deserving of the 2013 Curator Award.