CV / Resume

Born in 1978, Israel

2001-2006, graduated with a BA from Shenkar School of Art & Design in 2006

Mediums: Painting, Installation, Street-art

Website: www.mayagelfman.com / www.mindtheheart.org  |  Email: mayagelfman@gmail.com

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Solo Exhibitions

2023 

Bodies of Work, ONKAF Gallery, New Delhi, India

2022

The Unimaginable Horizon, AG18 Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2019

Form, Re-Form, AG18 Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2017

Outside looking in, National Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2016

Split Ends, Tel Aviv Artist House, Israel

2013       

Spark, Zadik Gallery, Jaffa, Israel

Process, Tel Aviv City Municipality Arts and Culture division, Israel

2012       

Rise!, Tsuk Gallery, Netanya, Israel

Heartbeats, Weiss House, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010       

Strings, Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel

Group Exhibitions

2019

Metamorphosis: The Place of the Past in the Present, CITYarts, Orlando, FL, USA

2017

ARTROOMS, Meliá White House, London England

Radical Love, Crypt Gallery, London England

2016      

Wire/less Connections, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Vitrinart, The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

Grand Opening, Milu Gallery Hotel, Florence Italy

2015      

Stories the Streets tell, The Israeli Children’s Museum, Holon

Hamekarer, The Old Wholesale Marketplace, Tel Aviv

S2G, kulturkueche, Monchengladbach

Presence, Tirosh Gallery, Tel Aviv

Temporary Crew, St.Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

2014      

Slideluck III, Tel Aviv

Launching Meshuna, Meshuna Gallery, Tel Aviv

​2013​      

Testing Tools Festival #10, Beit Tami, Tel Aviv

Note to Selves, Container, Jaffa port

7F, 7th Floor, Tel Aviv

Base Colors #2, Israel-Lebanon border, Activism Art event at IDF military bases

​​2012​      

Heroes in Distress, Art Basel, Miami, Overture/Scope art fair

Once I was a House, art event, Caesarea
Small Scale - 20\20, Zadik Gallery, Tel Aviv

Creation Cycle, Hangar 2, Jaffa Port

Free Art Friday, Tel Aviv

Spring Festival, Shapira Neighbourhood, Tel Aviv

Base Colors #1, Israel-Syria border, Activism Art event at IDF military bases

On the Fence #3, Jaffa

Love Art Make Art, Open Studio, Tel Aviv

​​2011      

Haifa Walks, Haifa Museum of Art

ZEMIKEA, Tsuk Gallery, Netanya

Mind the Heart, The Container, Tel Aviv
Sea Breeze, Artist Residency, Bat Yam

On the Fence #2, Jaffa
Mind the Heart, Dining Room, Tel Aviv
Ward Nasse, Ward Nasse Gallery, New York

​2010      

Cannons & Muses, Tama University of Art, Tokyo
de:frost Festival, Jerusalem

​2009      

Biennial #2, Herzliya

Secret Art #4, Beit Mani, Tel Aviv
Love Art Make Art, Open Studio, Tel Aviv

Tan, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv
1.2.3.4 I Declare an Art War, Shorashim Gallery

White Trash, Tel Aviv

​2008      

It’s a Small Big World, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

​​2005-2007  

Designers of the Future, Tel Aviv, Reading Power Station

International Woman’s Day, Tel Aviv University

Dialogue, Tzavta Theater, Tel Aviv

 

Residencies

2023  

Artist in Residence, at Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency, Shanghai, China (June-September)

Artist in Residence, at Windgate Residency, KSU University, Georgia, USA (September-October)

Artists of the season, at the Core Dance Company, Atlanta, USA (April-May)

2022  

NTTL & SEED, at the Roza Center for International and Interdisciplinary Art, Krakow, Poland (June)

2019  

The Poland Project, at the Sichow Foundation, Krakow, Poland (Feb)

2019   

Halcyon House fellowship, Shortlisted

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Collaborations & Public Actions (under Mind the Heart! Project)

2023 

Wishing Wall, Georgia Highlands College, Cartersville, GE, USA

Mantra, Mural, Core Dance, Atlanta, GE, USA

Bodies of Work, Solo Exhibition, ONKAF Gallery, New Delhi, India

2022   

SEED, Rosa Foundation, Artist Residency, Krakow, Poland

Looking at Place, Katzman Contemporary, Dover, NH, USA

O/Art, fundraiser for Ukraine, Atlanta-Chattanooga, TN & GA, USA          

2021   

Introduce Yourself, Kliger Gallery, Lund, Sweden

2019   

The Poland Project, Sichow Foundation, Artist Residency, Krakow, Poland

2018

New Poetics of Labor, Al camello camello y al amor amor, Espacio, Medellín, Colombia

MTH! in D.C. at By The People Arts Festival (Smisthonian, National Cathedral, Union Market,

~ Walter Reed & The Arc West, Washington, D.C.)

Bodies of Water, Site specific piece in the University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR

The Spaces Between #1, JCC, Foster City, CA, USA

The Spaces Between #2, PJCC, San Rafael, CA, USA

MTH! in Houston, at the City Hall & Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX

Towards One: Site specific, permanent piece in Building 98, Marfa, TX

2017

Be Here Now, Site specific, permanent piece in Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga, TN

MTH! in Hillary R. Clinton Library, Little Rock, AR

MTH! in Atlanta, at The Decatur Art Alliance, Decatur, GA

MTH! in Apopka, at the HCC, Apopka, FL

MTH! in Portsmouth, at Prescott Park & 3S Gallery, Portsmouth, NH

MTH! in Tel Aviv, Pilot for USA Tour at Beit Tami, Tel Aviv, Israel

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​Publications and Books

2022    Book, "Unravelling Women’s Art, by PL Henderson, Aurora Metro books, England

2018    Book, "Al camello camello y al amor amor" by Cristina Velásquez, NPOL, Colombia

2016    Book, "Wall, wall" by Dominque Lafon, France

2015    Book, "Street Messages" by Nicholas Ganz, Dokument Press, Germany

2013    TEDx TLV Talk: "Creating out of not knowing"- the creation of SPARK Solo Exhibition >> to see the talk 

* Curitorial texts: www.mayagelfman.com/curatorial-texts

   Press & selected articles: www.mayagelfman.com/press

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Selected collections

Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China

Historic Building 98. Marfa TX, USA

Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga TN, USA

Lettenmayer & partners, Czech Republic

MILU Art Hotel, Florence, Italy

Magdas Hotel, Vienna, Austria

Margot & Michael Schmitz, Vienna Austria

Herzliya Municipal Library, Israel

Rivka Saker, Caesarea, Israel