MIRIAM CABESSA

Miriam Cabessa is an Israeli American painter, winner of the 2022 Israeli Ministry of Culture Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Arts.

Her works are held in the collections of the British Museum in London, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, Texas State University, Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, America University Museum in Washington DC, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, among many others.

Cabessa was born in Morocco, raised in Israel and maintains studios in New York and Tel Aviv. Cabessa’s slow action painting has been internationally recognized since 1997 when she represented Israel at the Venice Biennale.
Over the past two decades, she has abstained from using brushes, opting to make marks with objects and her body. Her imagery ranges from organic to mechanistic with surfaces that are both haptically handmade and digitally serene.
Miriam Cabessa's work has been shown extensively in the U.S., Europe, and Israel in solo and group exhibitions, and is held in international private and public collections.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award in Visual Arts, Israel Ministry of Culture
2022 The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv
2001 International Studio & Curatorial Program, sponsored the NY Cultural
Corporation Commission
1995 Arts Prize for Young Artists, Ministry of Arts and Science
1995 The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum
1994 Scholarship from the American Israeli Cultural Foundation
1990 Scholarship from the American Israeli Cultural Foundation

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The British Museum, London, UK
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, U.S.A
American University Museum, Washington DC, U.S.A
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, U.S.A
Frederick R Weisman Art foundation, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A
Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Collection, Israel
The Vera & Arturo Schwartz Collection of Contemporary Art at the Tel Aviv Museum
Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
Knesset Israel (Israeli Parliament) Collection