Education
1976 B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
1984 Studio Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts), School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
Current Teaching Position
From 2000 Senior Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Technion University, Haifa, Israel
(basic and advanced multi-disciplinary courses, drawing, environmental art)
Selected Performances / Action-based projects, installations and exhibitions
2024
– “Vertices”, Gushul residency group show with residency artist Susan Shantz, Blairmore, Alberta, Canada
2023
– “Open Frequency”, 4-person drawing show at Wilfred Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea, Israel
2022
– “Wall work”, drawing installation, for 8th Biennial of Drawing, Jerusalem, Israel
2020
– “Hacking into apartment wall”, wall installation, performance, Urban Salon: Rashbam 3,
Ramat Hasharon, Israel
2019
– “Shedding” Collaborative performance and installation with Susan Shantz, Honor Kever,
AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
2018
– “18,666 Markings”, wall drawing installation, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
– “FLUX 2”, drawing performance for Festival of the Body, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
– “Scarred and Punctured 2” (prayer mat), performance, Sara Erman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
– “Scarred and Punctured” Sited drawing project and performance for video, Open House exhibition, DRAWinternational artists residency, Caylus France
2017
– “FLUX”, live drawing performance, Romantso Cultural Centre, for Metamporphosis,Interdisciplinary Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
– “Line Made by Walking through Petals” (A 50 year tribute to Richard Long’s Line Made by Walking), live performance, Artists Centre, Modiin-Reut, Israel
2016
– “Drawing and Blurring Lines (on a Brick Wall)”, Draw to Perform Symposium, Crow’s Nest Gallery, London, England
– “Marking the Passing of a Day,” 24 hour durational drawing, Duration and Dialogue Performance Festival, Katzman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015
– “White Lines”, performance, Inter-Action festival, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
2014
– “Marking the Territory”, Orpheus in Yafo, poetry-performance series, collaboration with Yonatan Kunda
– “Erasing Walls – A Brief Illustrated History of the Walls of Jerusalem“, Hansen Lepers Hospital, 5th Biennale of Drawing, Jerusalem
2013
– “Fragments of Knowledge”, Wall drawing/installation, 5 Approaches to the Encyclopedia Hebraica, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
– “Spoken Encyclopedia” interactive site performance, 5 Approaches to the Encyclopedia Hebraica, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
– “Pilgrimage”, Walking performance, Ramat Hasharon, studio event – Osi Yalon, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
– “Teaching Me to Write (in Arabic”), interactive performance, Upper Spaces, Lower Spaces – Urban Interventions, Haifa, Israel
2012
– “Reading and Marking”, performance for drawing and spoken word, artist’s studio, Ramat Hasharon, Israel, with Yonatan Kunda
– “Plants, Books, Walls”, Interactive performance, book launch event, Bilu Blich studio, Tel Aviv
2011
– “Marking Space”, performance/installation for drawing and sound, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, N.Y., collaboration with Ellen Moffat
2010
– “Wall of Perpetual Drawing”, performance/drawing installation, video screening, 4th Biennale of Drawing, Barbur Gallery and Artists’ House, Jerusalem
– “Realms of Knowing”, site performance, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, collaboration with Ellen Moffat
– “Performed Books”, CWSE/OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2009
– “Disappearing”, drawing-based performance, Spectacoli di Mistero Festival, Venice, Italy
– “Reading into the Landscape” Durational site performance, What is Hidden Behind the Pastoral, Mamuta Art and Media Center, Jerusalem, Israel
2008
– “Marking Stones”, site project, performance and installation, Binaural Artists Residency, Nodar, Portugal
– “Outside In”, performance, video installation, Fleishman Gallery, 7a11d International Performance Festival, Toronto, Canada
– “The Consolation of Philosophy”, performance, Reading Material: Artists Books, Municipal Gallery of Art, Rishon Letsion, Israel
– “360 Degrees: Three Drawing Actions”, performance, Night Trains (Salon D’Automne III), Tel-Aviv-Yafo, Israel
– “Erased Monuments”, wall installation/ performance, Rappaport Studio performance event, Ramat Gan, Israel
– “Drawing in an Empty Room”, performance/ drawing, Gallery Nachshon, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
2007
– “Topographical Readings”, V.I.P. performance event, Ticho House, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
– “Walk with Mask”, Streamers and Sardine Cans”, Grand Churrasco Performance Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
– “Sisters at Work”, performance, collaborative action, screenings, Collision06: Inter-arts Symposium, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.,Canada
– “Walk with Donkey”, Live Art Festival, Kibbutz Naan, Israel
2005
– “Branching III” performance, video works, Woman-Tree, Espais Foundation of Contemporary Art, Girona, Spain
– “Branching II”, collaboration/ for video and live performer, Marking Motion, The Lab, San Francisco, California, with Sheila Ghidini
– “Backyard with Olive Grove”, Beit Haomanim (Artists’ House), Tel Aviv, Israel
– “Summer Studio”, performance/ exhibition, Passage Gallery, Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel
– “Elemental Acts”, Deleon White Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004
– “Reforestation” performance, installation, Homesick: Salon D’Automne II, Herzl 29, Tel Aviv, Israel
– “Roadside Offerings” , HEARA 7, Ohel Moshe Neighborhood and Center, Jerusalem, Israel
– “Metamorphosis” performance, installation Private Gardens, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
– “Collaborative Activity”, performance, collaborative action. Committing Voice Conference, Goddard College, Vermont
2003
– “Down to Earth” EBENT ’03 International Performance Festival, Barcelona, Spain
– “10 Mandalas; Walking Mandala”, Circle with a Centre, Boreal Art/Nature Centre
– “Intimate Investigations”, , Contemporary Ritual Performance series, The Western Front, and LIVE Biennale of Performance Art, Vancouver, Canada
– “Daily Interactions”, DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2002
– “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” performance, HEARA 4, Underground Prisoners’ Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
– “City Shelter”, extended performance/ installation, Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
– “Walk to the Sea”, performance, FIX02 Catalyst Arts Performance Festival, Day of Simultaneous Action – Tel Aviv / Belfast
2001
– “Nightshift”, Blurrr: 3rd Biennale of Performance Art, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
– “Branching I” Prima Cogna, , Works Gallery, San Jose, California, with Sheila Ghidini
2000
– “Local Activity”, performance/ installation, Gallery OneOneOne, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
– “18 Short Ceremonies for a Building of Emptied Rooms”, Memory and Vision, Israeli-German Artists’ Exchange, Potsdam, Germany
1999
– “Volume: compressed + expanded”, performance/ installation, Grove Street Windows, San Francisco Art Commission, California, with Sheila Ghidini
1998
– “Angelmaking and Barricades” performance/ installation, Angels and Aliens, Walter McBean Gallery, Art Institute San Francisco, California
1997
– “A Temporary State of Grace”, Arad Museum of Art, Arad, Israel
1996
– “Transient Positions”, New Art Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
1993
– “Impossibly Northern Continents”, Yefet 28 Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
1991
– “New Works”, Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada
1989
– “The Palm at the End of the Mind”, Gallery Eleven, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
– “Coming Through Matter”, Tjaden Hall Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1985
– “Emerging from Chaos”, University of Massachusetts Gallery, Worcester, Mass.
Video and performance screenings
The performance videos and drawing-based videos have been screened at many performance and inter-media events including: On Water, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2016 Korean Nature Artists Association YATOO; Borderland – The Entropy of identities, Meca Mediterráneo Centro Artístico, and Museo de Almería Universidad de Granada, Spain; Line Made by Walking, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel; Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment (SPANE), Toronto, Canada; Nodar: Inscribed Territory, Viseu, Portugal; The Third Ear Screening Rooms, Tel Aviv, Israel; Epipiderme, Lisbon, Portugal; Exist08, Brisbane, Australia; Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Mobile Archive (Israeli Center for Digital Art), Kunstverein, Hamburg, and Holon, Israel; PI Performance and Inter-media, Szczecin-Swinoujscie, Poland; Inport Media Festival, Estonia; Collision 06, Inter-arts Symposium, UVic, Victoria, B.C.; EBent /Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain; Live Art/Dead Art, Godine Gallery, Mass.College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts; 7a11d Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Canada; IMAF Performance in Nature, Performance Art Today and International Multimedia Festival, Odzaci, Serbia and Montenegro.
The work has also been presented at universities and art institutions, including-Tel Aviv University; Bezalel School of Art, Masters Program, Tel Aviv; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.; Ontario College of Art and Design, Video and Performance, and Drawing Depts., Toronto, Canada: Fine Arts Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon; Photography Department, Ryerson College, Toronto, Canada: Sapir College Art Department, Shderot, Israel: Architecture and City Planning Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel: Musrara College, Jerusalem, Emuna College, Jerusalem; Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden; The Interdisciplinary Centre, Jerusalem, and at public schools in Israel, through Cultural Initiative -Artists in the Schools program.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
– “Three Environmental Artists”, Open Gallery for Environmental Art, Rishon Letzion, Israel
– “BAAD” Reservoir Gallery Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv
2010
– “Haifa, Israel/ Plovdiv, Bulgaria”, Pygmalion House, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2009
– “Gray Matter: 4 artists collaborate”, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv Israel
– “Parallel Worlds”, ScalaMata Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy
2008
– “Reading Material”, Municipal Gallery of Art, Rishon Letsion
2007
– “Nature in Mind”, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju National Museum, Korea
2006
– “Wired Forest”, Kirkland Art Centre, Seattle, Washington
– “A3” Israeli Drawing, Pyramid Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2003
– “Woman Enough”, Ein Harod Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod, Israel
2002
– “Salon D’Automne I”, (Herzl 29), Tel Aviv, Israel
2001
– “Memory and Vision II”, (Israeli-German Artists’ Exchange), The Artists’ Residence Gallery, Herziliya, Israel
– “Hands”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2000
– “Memory and Vision”, Israeli-German Artists’ Exchange, Panzerhalle, Potsdam, Germany
1999
– “Natural Selections”, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998
– “Back Room Noise”, Refusalon, San Francisco, California
1996
– “Three Artists: Three Installations”, Yavneh Artists’ Workshop gallery, Yavneh, Israel
1995
– “Posner Hosts Gimel”, Posner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
– “Drawing / Objects”, Gallery Gimel, Jerusalem, Israel
1994
– “Material World”, Nachshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
1993
– “Material: Sense and Essence”, Yefet 28 Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
1987
– “Drawing New England”, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Mass.
– “New England Women Artists”, North Hall Gallery, Mass. College of Art, Boston, Mass.
1986
– “Radiant Density”, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
– “Works on Paper”, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1985
– “Eastern Influence”, Wang Center Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1984
– “Threads: Contemporary Drawings”, Visual Language Workshop, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.
– “Dana Pond Competition” Award Recipients, Museum School Gallery, Boston, Mass.
Projects, Residencies, workshops, etc.
2018
– “Made of Walking 2” workshop and presentation, Akamas, Cyprus
– “Festival of the Body” Performance drawing, presentation and workshop, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
2017
– DRAWinternational residency, Caylus, France, project, video
– “Walk with Books” action for performer, for Analogio Festival, Athens, Greece
2016
– “Made of Walking”, presentation, workshop and performance, ANIMART- Experiential Art School Forum on Contemporary Creativity, Delphi, Greece
– Symposium “Draw to Perform” – Performance and workshop, London, England
2015
– “Gulkistan”, Center for Creativity, Laugarvatn, Iceland
2012-15
– “At Home: Talks with artists about Place and Practice”; a research project on Canadian artists, through the Israeli Institute for Canadian Studies.
2012
– “Walls I Have Known”; An artist book of wall-related projects from the past 10 years of performance.
2010-12
– “Wall of Perpetual Drawing”, an ongoing wall drawing project, artist’s studio, Ramat Hasharon, Israel (video works, installation)
2006-09
– “Home and Garden”; series of actions in artist’s home and garden (video works, catalogue)
2008
– “Binaural Artists Residency”, Nodar, Portugal
2006
– “Housekeeping”: ongoing series of performances for video, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
– “From the Void” (in the late hours of the night), project and exhibition at Alon High School Gallery with art department students, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
– “Sisters at Work”, Collision06 Symposium, Victoria, B.C. (Support of Canada Council)
2005
– “Walking Abandoned Walls”; I-Park Artists Residency, East Haddam, Connecticut (Support of Canada Council)
2004
– “Woman Enough”, traveling exhibition-in-a-box, with Ami Steinetz Contemporary Art Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003
– “Circle with a Centre”, Artists Residency, Boreal Art / Nature Center, La Minerve, Quebec
– “Intimate Investigations”, Western Front Performance Rituals, Vancouver, B.C. (Support of Canada Council)
2001
– “Backyard with Olive Grove”, site-specific performance project and artist’s book, Savyon, Israel
– “Large Movements and Small Actions” – performance project and book with Sheila Ghidini, San Francisco / Tel Aviv, included in Mobilivre / Bookmobile, Canada Council traveling exhibition of artists’ books, USA/Canada 2005
Books / Articles in books / catalogues / Journals
2018
– “At Home: Talks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice”, by Lezli Rubin-Kunda, Goose Lane Editions, Canada
2016
– “On Water”, The 7th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Video Exhibition catalogue, Gongiu National Museum, Korea
2014
– “The Eureka Bliss Project”, Liliana Orbach, video interview
2013
– Catalogue, Television Interview, “Fragments of Knowledge”, 5 Approaches to the Encyclopedia Hebraica, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
– “Artists Write about Themselves”, Panim 61, Journal of Culture, Education and Society
– Rachel Shalita, “Dialogue with Contemporary Art,” Art Educators Institute, Israel
2012
– Yael Kainey: Dialogue in the Studio; in “Walls I Have Known”, original in Hebrew; translation by L.Rubin-Kunda
2011
– Charlotta Kolik, “Marking Space,” a Drawing Sound and Performance Project, essay for Kentler Gallery publication
– Dafna Yaacobus, Achbar Jerusalem, “Lost”, artist profile (Wall Work at Barbur Gallery)
– “Three Years in Nodar”: Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural Portugal, Luis and Rui Costa, Editors, Nodar Edicions
2008
– Dana Gillerman, Haaretz, `Galleria, Artist’s Wall Series
2007
– Randy Rosenberg, Art in Action: Nature Creativity and Our Collective Future, Natural World Museum, San Francisco, California
– Nature in Mind, Nature Biennale, Gongiu National Museum, Korea
2006
– Marta Pol I Rigau, Dona-Arbre: Monique Bastiaans, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Mireya Maso, Fina Miralles, Shirin Neshart, Lezli Rubin-Kunda,Espais Foundation of Contemporary Art, Girona, Spain
2005
– Shinn Ben-Alon, Merav, “Passage Installations” 2004-2005, Tel Aviv, Israel
– Shinn Ben-Alon, Merav, “Backyard with Olive Grove”, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004
– Singh Victoria, “Ritual in Contemporary Performance”, anthology, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2003
– “Intimate Investigations”, Front Magazine, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2001
– Katz-Frieman Tami, “Close to Home”, Daily Interactions, Tel Aviv, Israel
– Eyland, Cliff, “Local Activity”, Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba, Canada
1999
– Barkai, Sigal “Studio Visit”, Terminal Magazine, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997
– Lavi Monica “A Temporary State of Grace”, Arad Museum, Arad, Israel
1996
– Bar-Natan Yifat “Transient Positions”, New Art Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
1993
– Bar-Lev Jennifer, “Impossibly Northern Continents”, Yefet 28 Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
