Miriam Cabessa, Live action painting,Variations with Hands (excerpt), 2012
Miriam Cabessa (born 1966, Morocco) is an Israeli-American painter, performance and installation artist, winner of the 2022 Israeli Ministry of Culture Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her work is held in the collections of The British Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and the Israel Museum, among others.
Cabessa was born in Morocco, raised in Israel and maintains studios in New York City and Tel Aviv. Her 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 and is held in international private and public collections.
