Miriam Cabessa

Born - 1967, Morocco / Hometown - New York, NY

About the Artist

Miriam Cabessa is a unique painter in that she paints without a brush. She uses her hands and fingers to create abstract, symmetrical form through choreographed movement over the canvas. Her compositions are records of repeating gestures. She is known for her Monochromatic paintings, most recently in form of large abstract works made with gold.

Cabessa was born in Morocco and grew up in Israel. She had a solo show in the Tel Aviv Museum in 1995 and represented Israel in the 1997 Venice Biennale. In addition, she has exhibited in galleries all over the world. Cabessa lives and works in New York City.
2012
Variations With Hands, Performance
Solo Exhibition

@Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv

2012
Take My Breath Away

@Julie M Gallery, Toronto

2012
Masonite

@Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

2012
Monkeys Nine People
Group Exhibition

@Tel Aviv, Isreal

2011
In Her Wake
Solo Exhibition

@Julie M. Gallery, Toronto

2011
Festival of Ideas, Performance

@New Museum, NYC

2010
79

@Slate Gallery, NYC

2010
A Group Exhibition

@Julie M Gallery, Toronto

2010
Balancing Act

@Hendershot Gallery, NYC

2010
Sweet Dreams

@Bet Haomanim, Tel Aviv

2009
Slow Motion Action Painting, Performance

@Pulse Art Fair, NYC

2008
Marking Time

@Lyons Weir Gallery, NYC

2008
Black & White

@Slate Gallery, 2008

2008
Timeless: The Art of Drawing

@The Morris Museum, NJ

2008
Eventually We’ll Die: Young Art in Israel of the 90’s

@Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel

2007
Miriam Cabessa

@Shelef & Schneidman, Tel Aviv

2007
Miriam Cabessa

@Slate Gallery, NYC

2007
Gallery Auction

@Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2007
Promised Land

@Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Rome

2007
Displacements

@Ben-Ari Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel

2007
The Big Show

@Silas Marder Gallery, Brisgehampton, NY

2007
Of the Painted Image

@Jewish Art Museum of Pittsburg, PA

2006
Hybrid Space

@Kultre Gardin, NYC

2005
Miriam Cabessa

@Moti Hasson Gallery, NYC

2005
Viewfinder

@Moti Hasson Gallery, NYC

2005
On The Mark

@University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

2005
Little Red Riding Hood

@Art Basel Miami, DotFifty One Art Space, Miami

2005
Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint

@Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC

2005
Dreaming Art Dreaming Reality

@Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

2004
Miriam Cabessa

@Pack Gallery

2004
STACCATO

@Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, NYC

2004
the sun still shines

@Pack Gallery, Milan, Italy

2004
I want to take you higher

@McKenzie Gallery, NYC

2004
Paintings that paint themselves

@Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

2003
Miriam Cabessa

@Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv

2003
Liminal

@Hamden Gallery, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

2003
Scope

@Armory Show 2003, NYC

2002
Armory Show 2002

@Stefan Stux Gallery Booth, NYC

2002
Mother Tongue

@Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel

2002
New York in Texas

@New Gallery, Houston, TX

2002
Artscape 2002

@Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland College of Art, Baltimore

2001
New Paintings

@Stefan Stux Gallery, Project Room, NYC

2000
Ladies and Gentlemen

@Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1999
Letters

@"The Office" Gallery " Tel Aviv

1999
LISTE 99

@the Young Art Fail, Basel, Switzerland

1999
Miriam Cabessa

@Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

1998
Coins

@Oranim College of Art, Isreal

1998
Installation

@Kibbutz Rosh-Ha’nekra, Israel

1998
Miriam Cabessa

@Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

1998
Women Artists

@Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

1997
Miriam Cabessa

@Venice Biennial, Israeli Pavilion, Venice, Italy

1997
The Museum Collection

@Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1996
The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

@Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Isreal

1996
Miriam Cabessa

@Mary Faouzi Gallery, Jaffa, Isreal

1995
Palindrome

@Janco-Dada House, En-Hod, Isreal

1995
Work

@Tel-Hai Gallery, Tel Hai, Isreal

1995
Pyramus and Thisbe

@Kibbutz-Nachshon Gallery, Israel

1994
Miriam Cabessa

@Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv