Maya Attoun (b. 1974)

Maya Attoun was born in 1974 in Jerusalem. Her works in print include a variety of techniques like screenprint and etching. Through them she deals with models of knowledge and scientific systems and their disruption, as a metaphor for the relationship between the individual and society. Her works can be found among the collections of the Israel Museum, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and others.

Education
1993-1997 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2000-2004 MA studies, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2004-2006 MFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Awards And Prizes (selection)

2007 Oded Messer Award for Young Artist, Yanko-Dada Museum & the Messer Family, Ein-Hod
2009 Finalists Exhibition, the Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2010 Oscar Handler Award, Lohamei Ha’getaot Gallery, Lohamei Ha’getaot
2012 Creative Encouragement Award, Ministry of Culture and Sports
2012 Artis Grant Recipient
2016 Grant, Mifal Hapais, The Lottery Committee for the Arts
2018 The Cultural Minister Award for the Arts

Solo exhibition (selection)
2011 Falling in Line (with Hilla Ben Ari), Marie-Laure Flisch Gallery, Rome, Italy
2011 Equations for a Falling Body, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2015 Half Full, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2017 Lover’s Eye, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2018 The Charms of Frankenstein, Jewish Museum, London, UK
2019 Working End Standing End, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem

Group exhibitions (selection in the field of print)
2010 The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri
2011 The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2014 The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri
2017 The Nature of Drawing / Paper’s Calling, the 6th Drawing Biennale, Jerusalem Print
Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 Contemporary Local Print, Jerusalem
2020 The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri
2021 Solar Mountains & Broken Hearts, Magasin III Jaffa, Tel Aviv-Yafo