Artist Profiles

Maayan Strauss

Maayan Strauss was born in Jerusalem in 1982. She received her BA in Architecture from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2008).

Solo exhibitions include: "Land Cruiser" at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (June 2007) and "On the Way to IKEA" at Givon Gallery (May 2003).

Selected group exhibitions include: "Artist at Work” (Left Bank Gallery, May 2009); "Sweethearts" (Fresh Paint Art Fair, March 2009); "Internazionale!” (Left Bank Gallery, September 2008); "Treasure" (GDK Gallery, October 2008); "Family" (Rishon Le-Zion, April 2008); "Dead End" (Rosenfeld Gallery, February 2008); "Water in Art and Life" (The Israel Museum, June 2007); "The Rear" (The Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, September 2007); "Guests" (Kav-16, April 2006); "Mini Israel" (The Israel Museum, March 2006); "Seduction" ('Comme Ill Faut, March 2006); "Conflicted" (Menier, September 2005); "Uniform Ltd" (Senate Gallery, Ben-Gurion University, June 2004); "Sharon" (Kalisher Gallery, May 2004); "Imagine-Artists for Co-Existence" (Rosenfeld Gallery, March 2002); and "Were are the Children?" (Givon Gallery, December 2001).

Selected publications include: "The New & the Bad" (Art Magazine, Issue No. 1, 2009); "Feminism and Israeli Art" (Hamidrasha Magazine, Issue No. 10, 2007); "Mini Israel" (The Israel Museum, Exhibition Catalogue, 2006); Maayan Magazine for Poetry, Art, and Ideas (Issue No. 1, 2005); Maayan Magazine for Poetry, Art, and Ideas (Issue No. 2, 2006), and "War" (Hamidrasha Magazine, Issue No. 6, 2003).