Maya Gold lives and works in Tel Aviv and Brussels. Gold is a graduate of the MFA program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, where she also holds a teaching position. Gold is an acclaimed artist in the contemporary art scene in Israel and has shown several solo exhibitions, in Israel and abroad, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Gold’s latest solo exhibition “Threads” was held at the Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv (2020). Gold has been awarded various prizes and grants including the Young Artists Award of the Israeli Ministry of Culture (2014) and her works have been acquired by museums and collectors worldwide.
Gold’s paintings seem to possess a strong regard for realism, yet they also raise questions about painting itself and its history, from modernist abstraction in painting to the Romantic Tradition. She sets in motion the construction and deconstruction of an illusory space, distortions of scale, and multiple perspectives. Gold’s images occupy a dual state: they unfold a concurrent process of zooming in and out, enlargement and miniaturization, causing an unstable perspective. The work results in a discourse which goes beyond mere formalism, touching upon issues of identity and place, the individual painting becomes an open arena of change, of constant transformation.
Maya Gold
Born 1978, Jerusalem
Lives and works in Tel Aviv and Brussels
Education
2005 MFA Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Tel Aviv
2001 Slade School of fine art, U.C.L, London, painting department
1998-2002 BFA Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
Solo Exhibitions
2021 2001-2021, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2020 Threads, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 Short Long Story, Projex Connect, Minnesota street project, San Francisco
2015 Fireflies, Alon Segev gallery, Tel-Aviv
2013 By the Gazelles of the Field, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2011 Echo, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2009 Wake, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NYVolta, New York, NYMaritime, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 Gottesdiener Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2006 Alon Segev gallery, Tel-Aviv
2004 Marshim: A Series of Exhibitions of Young Artists, Haifa museum of Art, Haifa;curator: Yehudit Matzkel (cat.)
2003 Still Life, Artist Studio gallery, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions
2021 Summer Show, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2021 Wind Mind, Hansen House, Jerusalem
2021 Other Heaven, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2020 Territory of Tenderness, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2020 I Feel Really Awake, Maison du peuple de Saint Gilles, Brussels
2020 When the Globe is Home, Gallery delle Prigioni, Treviso
2019 Nature of Art, MOCAK, Museum of contemporary art of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
2019 Pelgrims Spirit, Maison Pelgrims, Bruxelles, Belgium
2018 Imago Mundi – Art Theorema #1, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
Pilla or Cloud, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa (Curator: Svetlana Reingold)
2017 L’arte Differente: Mocak Al Maxxi, Maxxi Museum, Italy (curator: Maria Anne Potocka)
2016 SEA, MOCAK, Museum of contemporary art of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
2015 Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2010 Oblique/Acute, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro,VT; Curator: Mara Williams
2009 Painting Camp: New Horizons, Municipal Art Gallery, Ramla, IsraelSolace, Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel AvivIsraeli Art Now, Naomi Arin
Contemporary Art, Las Vegas
2008 Heaven, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Young Israeli Art: Recipients of the Legacy Heritage Fund Prize,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IsraelShortlisted Artists: Nathan Gottesdiener
Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art(cat.)
2006 Israeli Artists,Taché-Lévy Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
2004 This time painting!, Herzeliya Museum of Art, Herzeliya, Israel; curator: Martin Hentschel (cat.)
Awards
2014 Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Israel
2007 Legacy Heritage Fund Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2005 Art department Excellence award, Bezalel Academy
Selected Collections
- MMP, The Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts
- MOCAK, Museum Of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland
- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
- The Brandes Family Art collection, Tel Aviv
- Fruchter Family collection, Belgium
- Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York
- The Susan Goodman collection, New York
- Ogawa collection, Tokyo
- Hapoalim Bank Art collection, Tel Aviv