MIRIAM CABESSA
Miriam Cabessa was born in Morocco and grew up in Israel. She lives and works in New York since 2000 and has shown in the United States, Europe and Israel.
education
1997-1998 Cultural Studies at Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv, Israel
1990-1992 Ha’Midrisha College of Art, Ramat-Ha’Sharon, Israel
1988-1989 Kalisher College of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
selected solo exhibitions
2012 Variations with Hands , Performance , Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv , Israel
Miriam Cabessa / / Performance, Rothschild 69, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 In Her Wake , Julie M. Gallery , Toronto , Canada
2010 79 , Slate Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Slow Motion Action Painting , Performance , Pulse Art Fair, New York
2008 Marking Time, Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery, New York
2007 Shelef & Schneidman, Tel Aviv, Israel
Slate Gallery, New York
2005 Moti Hasson Gallery, New York
2004 Pack Gallery, Milan , Italy
2003 Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
2001 New Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, Project Room, New York
1999 Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
Letters, ” The Office ” Gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
1998 Coins , Oranim College of Art , Israel
Installation, Kibbutz Rosh-Ha’nekra, Israel
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
1997 Venice Biennale , Israeli Pavilion , Venice , Italy
1996 The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Mary Faouzi Gallery, Jaffa , Israel
1995 Palindrome, Installation at Janco-Dada House, En-Hod, Israel
New Work , Tel – Hai Gallery, Tel Hai , Israel
1994 Pyramus and Thisbe, Installation Kibbutz-Nachshon Gallery, Israel
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
selected group exhibitions
2014 Chicago Triangle , Haifa museum , Israel.
Broken Beads , Beer-Sheva University , Israel.
Contemporary Israeli Art , Julie M , Toronto , Canada.
2013 Passive Aggressive , University Gallery , Tel Aviv, Israel
A Picnic and Smokes, group show curated by Kipton Cronkite from @60, QF Gallery, East Hampton
2012 The Merry Mummy, Ramat Gan Museum , Israel
Three people show, Nye+Brown Gallery, LA
Monkeys Nine People, Tel Aviv, Israel
Masonite, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Take my Breath Away, Julie M Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2011 Festival of Ideas-performance, The New Museum, New York
A Group Exhibition, Julie M Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010 Balancing act, Hendershot gallery, New York
Sweet Dreams, Bet Haomanim, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Lyons Weir Ortt Gallery, New York
Black & White, Slate Gallery, New York
Timeless: The Art of Drawing, The Morris Museum, New Jersey
Eventually We’ll Die: Young Art In Israel Of The 90’s, Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2007 Displacements, Ben-Ari Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
Promised Land, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Rome, Italy
Gallery Auction, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Of The Painted Image, Jewish Museum of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Big Show, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
2006 Hybrid Space, Kulture Gardin, New York
2005 Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York
Little Red Riding Hood, Art Basel Miami, Dot Fifty One Art Space, Miami, Florida
On The Mark, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
Viewfinder, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York
Dreaming Art Dreaming Reality, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2004 Paintings that Paint Themselves, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan
Staccato, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York
The sun still shines, Pack Gallery, Milan, Italy
I Want To Take You Higher, McKenzie Gallery, New York
2003 Momus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Scope, Armory Show 2003, New York
Liminal, Hamden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
2002 Artscape 2002, curated by John Yao, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland College of Art, Baltimore
New York in Texas, New Gallery, Houston, Texas
Armory Show 2002, Stefan Stux Gallery Booth, New York
Graham & Sons Gallery, New York
Mother Tongue, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
2000 The Vera & Arturo Schwartz Collection of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Ladies and Gentlemen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1999 Liste 99, The Young Art Fair, Sommer Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1998 Spring at the End of Summer Young Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Women Artists, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
1997 The Museum Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1996 Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, California
The Vera & Arturo Schwartz Collection of Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
New in the Collection: Prints, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1995 The Ministry of Science and the Arts Prize for a Young Artist, Artist’s House Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Blind Spot Test, Pyramid Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship Recipients, Genia Schreiber University
Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Israel
1994 90-70-90, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Along New Lines: Israeli Drawing Today, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Meta-Sex, Mishkan-Le’Omeont Museum of Art & Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Israel
1993 Subtropical: Between Figural and Abstract, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
collaborations
2013 “Mavirot project” , Comme-il-faut, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2012 Artist Book, With poet Natan Zach. monotype prints. Gallery Harel, printers & publishers, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
teaching experience
1997 The School of Art Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
awards & scholarships
2011 Artist Pension Trust Organization
2001 International Studio & Curatorial Program, sponsored by the NY-Israel Cultural Corp
1995 Commission Ministry of Science and the Arts Prize for Young Artists
The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize
1994 Scholarship from the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation
1991 Scholarship from the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation
public collections
Frederick R Weisman Art foundation, Artist Pension Trust Organization
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Israel, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Texas State University, Texas
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