CV / Resume
Born in 1978, Israel. Lives and works as a nomad in the USA, EU and Asia since 2017
2006, graduated with a BA from Shenkar School of Art & Design
Mediums: Painting, Installation, Street-art (public performance)
Website: www.mayagelfman.com / www.mindtheheart.org | Email: mayagelfman@gmail.com
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Neither Here Nor There, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia, 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, 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, Israel
Vitrinart, The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Grand Opening, Milu Gallery Hotel, Florence, Italy
2015
Stories the Streets tell, The Israeli Children’s Museum, Holon, Israel
Hamekarer, The Old Wholesale Marketplace, Tel Aviv, Israel
S2G, kulturkueche, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Presence, Tirosh Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Temporary Crew, St.Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014
Slideluck III, Tel Aviv, Israel
Launching Meshuna, Meshuna Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013
Testing Tools Festival #10, Beit Tami, Tel Aviv, Israel
Note to Selves, Container, Jaffa port, Israel
7F, 7th Floor, Tel Aviv, Israel
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, Israel
Small Scale - 20\20, Zadik Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Creation Cycle, Hangar 2, Jaffa Port, Israel
Free Art Friday, Tel Aviv, Israel
Spring Festival, Shapira neighborhood, Tel Aviv, Israel
Base Colors #1, Israel-Syria border, Peace & Activism Art event
On the Fence #3, Jaffa, Israel
Love Art Make Art, Open Studio, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011
Haifa Walks, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
ZEMIKEA, Tsuk Gallery, Netanya, Israel
Mind the Heart, The Container, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sea Breeze, Artist Residency, Bat Yam, Israel
On the Fence #2, Jaffa, Israel
Mind the Heart, Dining Room, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ward Nasse, Ward Nasse Gallery, New York, USA
2010
Cannons & Muses, Tama University of Art, Tokyo, Japan
de:frost Festival, Jerusalem, Israel
2009
Biennial #2, Herzliya, Israel
Secret Art #4, Beit Mani, Tel Aviv, Israel
Love Art Make Art, Open Studio, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tan, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1.2.3.4 I Declare an Art War, Shorashim Gallery, Israel
White Trash, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008
It’s a Small Big World, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2005-2007
Designers of the Future, Tel Aviv, Reading Power Station, Israel
International Woman’s Day, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dialogue, Tzavta Theater, Tel Aviv, Israel
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
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
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
Selected collections
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
Lettenmayer & partners, Czech Republic
Goldman, Erlich, Gaver, Edelstein & Co. Law, Israel
Historic Building 98. Marfa TX, USA
Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga TN, USA
MILU Art Hotel, Florence, Italy
Magdas Hotel, Vienna, Austria
Herzliya Municipal Library, Israel
M & M Schmitz, Vienna Austria
R. Saker, Caesarea, Israel
O. Shatil, Tel Aviv, Israel
S. Sternbach, Tel Aviv, Israel
H. Bornstein, Tel Aviv, Israel
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