Maya Cohen-Levy
Maya Cohen-Levy, Islamic OrnamentsMaya Cohen-Levy, Yaffo RoadMaya Cohen-Levy, Electricity Pole IVMaya Cohen-Levy, Towers IMaya Cohen-Levy, Towers IIMaya Cohen-Levy, Untitled
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Maya Cohen-Levy, Roots-Trees Maya Cohen-Levy, BridgeMaya Cohen-Levy, Urban Landscape, Tel Aviv, no. 23Maya Cohen-Levy, Urban Landscape, Tel Aviv, no. 22
Maya Cohen-Levy, Urban Landscape, Tel Aviv, no. 17Maya Cohen-Levy, Urban Landscape, Tel Aviv, no. 6
Maya Cohen-Levy, UntitledMaya Cohen-Levy, Untitled
Maya Cohen-Levy, UntitledMaya Cohen-Levy, Eye WitnessMaya Cohen-Levy, Eye WitnessMaya Cohen-Levy, Eye Witness
Maya Cohen-Levy, Eye WitnessMaya Cohen-Levy, Eye WitnessMaya Cohen-Levy, Eye WitnessMaya Cohen-Levy, Eye Witness

 

Born in Tel Aviv, 1955

Studied art at the Kalisher School of Art, Tel Aviv

and philosophy at Tel Aviv University

Has taught at Kalisher and at the Bezalel Academy

of Art and Design, Jerusalem; teaches at Tel Aviv University

Lives and works in Tel Aviv 

 
Selected Solo Exhibitions 

 

1983 Horace Richter Gallery, Jaffa
1984 Debel Gallery, Jerusalem
1985 "Paintings," Ehad Ha'am 90 Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Ami Steinitz 
Debel Gallery, Jerusalem
1988 "Paintings," Rap Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Eitan Hilel
1989 "Paintings," Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv
1991 "paintings," (Sukkot) Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993 "Thatch and Honeycomb," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; curator: Meira Perry Lehman
"Sunflower Heart," Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
1994 Installation, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery
1996 "Palm Tree Trunks," Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
1998 “Landscape, No Landscape,” Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tivon, curatorial studies class; instructor: David Wakstein (catalogue)
1998 "Dvarim," Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999 “Palm Tree Trunks,” Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery, Kiryat Tivon Memorial Center; curators: Ada Naamani and Esty Reshef (catalogue)
2000 “Pools,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art; curator: Varda Steinlauf (catalogue)                  
2002 “Islamic Ornaments, Trees and One Additional Work,” Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003 “Looking Through the Shadows,” Villa Waldberta, Munich
2004 “Poles, Towers, Bridges,” Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005 “Towers,” Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya (catalogue)
2006 “Slits,” HaTzuk Gallery, Netanya; curator: Monica Lavi
“Beneath the Surface,” December Gallery, Berlin
2008 “Crack,” Artists Workshops, Tel Aviv; curator: Vered Zafran Gani (catalogue)
2009 "Several Matters" Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2009 “Twilight: Urban Landscapes, Tel Aviv,” The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University; curator: Mordechai Omer (catalogue) 
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
 
1982 "Singers / Pigs," Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv
1985 "Eighty Years of Israeli Sculpture," Debel Gallery, Jerusalem
"Drawings," Ehad Ha'am 90 Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Ami Steinitz
1987 "Large Format," Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan; curator: Meir Aharonson (catalogue)
1988 "Israeli Art", traveling exhibition, USA; curator: Mary Evangelista (catalogue) 
1989 "Three-Dimensional Objectivity," Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan; curator: Meir Aharonson (catalogue)
1990 The Biennale for Sculpture, Ein Hod; curator: Meir Aharonson
1990 "The Column in Contemporary Israeli Sculpture," The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Mordechai Omer (catalogue)
1991 "Young Artist Award Recipients," Tel Aviv Museum of Art
"Present-Absent: The Empty Chair in Israeli Art," Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Mordechai Omer (catalogue)
1993 "Determined Image," Haifa Museum of Art; curator: Georgette Blaya
1994 "Unity," Artists House, Tel Aviv; curator: Mordechai Geldman (catalogue)
“Adama,” Abraham Goodman Gallery, New York
1995 "My Heart Is in the East," Pyramid Gallery, Haifa; curator: Avraham Eilat.
1998 "Women Artists in Israeli Art," Haifa Art Museum; curator: Ilana Teicher (catalogue)
"Friendly Triangle: Pesach Slovoski, Mordechai Geldman,  Maya Chen Levy," The Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, Kalisher 5, Tel Aviv; curator: Mordechai Geldman
"Contemporary Art in Israel," Kulturzentrum bel den Minoriten, Graz, Austria; curator: Arie Weiss
1999 “Vision of Light – A Century of Watercolor in Israel,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; curator: Meira Perry Lehman (catalogue)
2000 “Vision and Memory,” (Israel-Germany, Part I), Sektor Panzerhalle, Berlin; curator: Hanneh Laura Hoffner (catalogue)
2000 “Vision and Memory”, Part I, Joint exhibition of German and Israeli artists, Berlin, Germany 
2001 “World Order: Maya Cohen Levy and Yadid Rubin,” University Art Gallery, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheba, curators studies class; instructor: Haim Maor
“Exhibition 28: New Prints,” Jerusalem Print Workshop; curators: Irena Gordon, Arie Kilemnik
2002 “Sign of Painting,” Haifa Museum of Art; curator: Daniela Talmor
“Vision and Memory” (Israel-Germany, part II), Herzliya Artist Center; curator: Hanna-Laura Hoffner
2003 “Thou Shalt Make,” Time for Art, Tel Aviv; curator: Gideon Ofrat  
“Israeli Contemporary,” Robert Sandelson Gallery, London (catalogue)
“Concealed and Revealed,” Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem; curator: Naftali Glicksberg (catalogue)
‏2004 “The 1980s in Israeli Art,” Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tivon 
2005 “On the Banks of the Yarkon,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art; curator: Varda Steinlauf (catalogue)
“Little Red Riding Hood,” DotFiftyOne Gallery, Miami, Florida         
“Sektor Panzerhalle,” Berlin (catalogue) 
2006 “Double Exposure: Middle Eastern Rooftops,” Makor Gallery, New York; curator: Carmela Yaakobi Walke 
“Disengagement,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art; curator: Nili Goren (catalogue)
Winners of the Culture and Education Ministry Award, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; curator: Amitai Mendelson (catalogue)
2007 “Independence Park,” Artists House, Tel Aviv; curator: Mordechai Geldeman 
“CT Fish” Ha’Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery , Tel Aviv; curator: Dalya Markovich (catalogue)
“”Moods and Modes in Israeli Photography,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art; curator: Nili Goren
2008 “My Turn,” HaTzuk Gallery, Netanya; curator: Monica Lavi (catalogue)
“Van Gogh in Tel Aviv,” Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv; curator: Carmela Rubin (catalogue)
“Compassion and Rage,” Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Ronit Yedaya
“Souvenirs,” University Art Gallery, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheba (catalogue)
“Rare Medium,” Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; curator: Ruti Sela (catalogue)
“Plants,” Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
“2009: Tel Aviv Time,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art; curator: Nili Goren (catalogue)
“Last Edition,” University Art Gallery, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheba (catalogue) 
    
Scholarships and Awards
 
1988–1991 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize for a Young Artist
1991 Young Artist Prize
1993 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Foreign Study Grant (China)
2004 Dan Sandel Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum
IDB Award, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Israeli Culture and Education Ministry Award
The Janet and George Japin, America - Israel Cultural Foundation award
Michel Kikoïne Prize, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University 
 
Collections

Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Jewish Museum, New York
Ha’aretz Art Collection
Doron Sebag Collection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv
Public and private collections in Israel and abroad
 
 
 
 
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