Michal Na’aman (b. 1951)

Michal Neeman was born in 1951 in Kvutzat Kinneret. In the 1960s she moved with her family to Lod. Her work, since the 1970s, has focused on the boundaries of the object, using various means like text, collage, and more. In the first half of the 2000s she created a large-scale body of etchings. Her works can be found among all the Israeli museum collections and many others around the world.

Education
1969-1972 Bachelor, literature and history of art, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1974 Bachelor, Art Teachers’ Training College, Ramat Hasharon
1978-1980 School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

Awards And Prizes
1981 Jacques and Eugenie Ohana Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1995 George and Janet Jaffin Prize for Excellence in Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1995 Prize, Ministry of Science and the Arts
1998 Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Isracard Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (together with Liliane Klapisch)
1998 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2002 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2008 Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2014 The Israel Prize

Solo Exhibition (selection)
1982 The Israeli Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
1983 Michal Na’aman 1975-1983, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1999 Michal Na’aman: Legion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2010 Michal Naaman: A Smile, A Cat, A Cut, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2013 Michal Na’aman: Wit / ויץ / Wit, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2014 Michal Na’aman: מיקי – Mouth, HaMidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2019 Michal Naaman: Singing Swans, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Group Exhibition (selection in the field of printmaking)
2002 35 Prints – 35 Years of Occupation, Hagar Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2003 35 Prints – 35 Years of Occupation, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2006 Orlando, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2009 Land and Sea, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2014 Workshop Myth: Four Decades. Body, Place, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2020 As She Transform, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem