Biography

Maya Gelfman, (b. 1978), is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on “site-and-time-specific” processes.
Graduated from Shenkar School of Art & Design, BA, 2006.

Main mediums are painting, performance, installation and street-art.
She is a nomad, currently residing in France and the U.S.A.

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Exhibition Highlights:
Gelfman has exhibited eleven solo exhibitions. She's currently exhibiting paintings at the 60th Venice Biennial, Italy.

Previous solo exhibitions include the National Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand in 2015 and at the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, USA. Previous group exhibitions include the Israel National Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, and art fairs in London, Miami, and Washington D.C

 

Residencies & collections:

She has participated in six artist residencies, including at the Swatch Art Peace in Shanghai, China, Roza Center for Interdisciplinary Art in Poland, and the Windgate Residency at KSU University, USA. She was a finalist for the Halcyon

House fellowship in 2019. Her works have been purchased by private and public collectors, including Lettenmayer & partners,

Rivka Saker, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Creative Discovery Museum, Historic Building 98, Milu Hotel.

 

Media and Publications:

Her work has been featured in films and on TV, in print and online, and she has been published in four international art books,

(in London, Germany, france, Colombia and USA).

In 2013, she gave a TEDx talk about her unique approach to art making.

 

Street Art:
In 2009 she co-founded 'Mind the Heart!', a street art project that has since reached over 100 cities on 5 continents.

Between 2017-2021, she created a 365/24/7 performance in public, spanning 100,000 KM (60,000 miles),

across 48 States in the U.S.A. To learn more about the journey: “The Serendipity Experiment”.