CV / Resume

​Education

Graduated from Shenkar School of Art & Design, BA, 2006​

 

Solo Exhibitions

2024    Neither Here Nor There, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA, USA

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, TLV Artist House, Tel Aviv

2013    Spark, Zadik Gallery, Jaffa

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

2012    Rise!, Tsuk Gallery, Netanya

             Heartbeats, Weiss House, Tel Aviv

2010    Strings, Artists House, Tel Aviv

 

Duo Exhibitions

2025    Accumulation of Horizons, Les ateleirs Lalande & Coercore, Paris, France

             The Gaze, 3.1 L'espace Liminal, Saissac, France

             The Realm of Darkness has many Colors, 3.1 L'espace Liminal, Saissac, France

Group Exhibitions

2024    Strangers Everywhere (Swatch Pavilion), Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

            Twenty Four Windows, Fifth Floor Gallery, SAPH, Shanghai, China

2023    Pole Culturel de la Manufacture, The Royal Manufactory, Montolieu, France

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, Mönchengladbach, Germany

            Presence, Tirosh Gallery, Tel Aviv

            Temporary Crew, St.Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

2014    Slideluck III, Tel Aviv, Israel

            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, IIsrael-Lebanon border, Peace & Activism Art event

​​2012​    Heroes in Distress, Art Basel, Miami, Overture/Scope art fair, USA

            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 neighborhood, Tel Aviv

            Base Colors #1, Israel-Syria border, Peace & Activism Art event

            On the Fence #3, Jaffa

            Love Art Make Art, Open Studio, Tel Aviv

​​2011    Haifa Walks, Haifa Museum of Art

            ZEMIKEA, Tsuk Gallery, Netanya

            Simu Lev!, The Container, Tel Aviv
            Sea Breeze, Artist Residency, Bat Yam

            On the Fence #2, Jaffa
            Simu Lev!, Dining Room, Tel Aviv
            Ward Nasse, Ward Nasse Gallery, New York, USA

​2010    Cannons & Muses, Tama University of Art, Tokyo, Japan
            De:frost Festival, Jerusalem

​2009    Herzliya 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, Israel

​2008    It’s a Small Big World, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

​​2005-2007  Designers of the Future, Reading Power Station, Tel Aviv

            International Woman’s Day, Tel Aviv University

            Dialogue, Tzavta Theater, Tel Aviv

 

Residencies

2023   Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency, Shanghai, China (June-September)

            Windgate Residency, KSU University, GA, USA (September-October)

            Core Dance Company, Atlanta, USA (April-May)

2022   Roza Center for International and Interdisciplinary Art, Krakow, Poland (June)

2019   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, mural & masterclasses, Georgia Highlands College, Cartersville, GE, USA

            MTH! in Kennesaw, masterclasses, School of Art, Kennesaw, GA, USA         

            Mantra, mural, Core Dance, Atlanta, GE, USA

2022   SEED & NTTL, mural & performance, Rosa Foundation, Krakow, Poland

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

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

2021   Introduce Yourself, exhibition, Kliger Gallery, Lund, Sweden

2019   The Poland Project, mural & performance, Sichow Foundation, Artist Residency, Krakow, Poland

2018   New Poetics of Labor, Al camello camello y al amor amor, exhibition, Espacio, Medellín, Colombia

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

            Walter Reed, Arc West, D.C., USA

            Bodies of Water, permanent installation & masterclasses, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, USA

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

            The Spaces Between #2, exhibition & mural,  PJCC, San Rafael, CA, USA

            MTH! in Houston, exhibition, City Hall & Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX, USA

            Towards One, permanent installation, Building 98, Marfa, TX, USA

2017   Be Here Now, permanent installation, Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga, TN, USA

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

            MTH! in Atlanta, exhibition, Decatur Art Alliance, Decatur, GA, USA

            MTH! in Apopka, permanent installation, HCC, Apopka, FL, USA

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

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

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​Publications and Books

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

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

2016    "Wall, wall" by Dominque Lafon, France

2015    "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 >> to read the texts 

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

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Selected collections

Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA

Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai

Lettenmayer & partners, Czech Republic

​Goldman, Erlich, Gaver, Edelstein & Co. Law

Historic Building 98. Marfa TX

Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga TN

MILU Art Hotel, Florence

Magdas Hotel, Vienna

Herzliya Municipal Library

M & M Schmitz, Vienna

R. Saker, Caesarea

O. Shatil, Tel Aviv

S. Sternbach, Tel Aviv

H. Bornstein, Tel Aviv