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Merav Tzur

Performance, Installation, Video and Participatory Works

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EDUCATION

  • 2011- MFA, UC Berkeley
  • 2009- BFA with highest distinction, California College of the Arts
  • 2007- Bezalel School for the Arts- Israel

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROJECTS

2018
  • The Channel of Democracy: Womanhood, Power & Freedom in Video Art,   Photofairs SF, San Francisco
2017
  • Objectified, CICA Museum, South Korea
2016
  •  (solo) Story & History, Bait Ha’omanim Gallery, Tel Aviv, (catalog)
  • Archeology Workshop (Alternative Histories), Hand in Hand Center for Arab–Jewish Education in Israel, Jerusalem
  • Reinventing the Past workshops, Artist Cube Artists’ studios, Jerusalem
  • Speed Show LA: Manifesto, curated by Aram Bartholl, iPC Bang Internet Café, Los Angeles
  • (three persons show) JoyAbound®, Louie Meager Gallery, Ohlone College, Fremont
  • (solo) Bliss Drips H2O Mobile Boutique®, Fort Mason, San Francisco
2015
  • Overshare, A Simple Collective, San Francisco
  • Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco (Catalog)
  • Biennial Invitational Exhibition. Fisch Haus, Wichita (Catalog)
2014
  • Room for Big Ideas: Social in Practice, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
  • Survival Adaptations, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco
  • Soundwave Biennial: Water, Soundwave ((6)), Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco
  • Hundred Performances for the Hole, SOMArst Gallery, San Francisco
  • Gaze #7: Generation Loss, Artist Television Access, San Francisco
  • Water Work, CCA Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco
  • Collect, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
2013
  • Working Title: Process-Based Projects By CCA Faculty, Oliver Center, Oakland
  • (solo) Alternative Histories, The White Gallery, Hatzor, Israel
  • For The Cherubs Educational Program Informational Booth, Southern Exposure 39th Birthday Party, San- Francisco
  • To Build & Be Built: Kibbutz History, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2012
  • Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
  • (three persons show) Ficciones, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland
  • Night Light: A Multimedia Garden Party, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco
  • The Milkbar #30,  The Biscuit Factory, Oakland
2011
  • Third Strike: 100 Performances for the Hole, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco
  • Micromanagement, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco
  • Inarguably Uncertain Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
2010
  • Participant in Shadowshop: A Project by Stephanie Syjuco at SFMOMA exhibition “The More Things Change”, San Francisco
  • UC Berkeley Film Makers, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
  • Eisner Award Recipients, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
  • Footnote7, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley
2009
  • Bay Area Video Makers, Piedmont Theater, Oakland
  • CCA Film and Video Makers, San Francisco
  • Frequencies, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley
2008
  • (Solo) The Masha is Real Museum, IPW Gallery, Oakland
  • (Solo) Elysian Fields, Bezalel Main Galleries, Jerusalem
  • CCA Film and Video Makers, Oakland

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2018
  • Barstow Artist-in-Residence, Central Michigan University
2016
  • Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture AIR, San Francisco
  • Guest Artist at Art Cube Artists’ Studio, Jerusalem, Israel
2015
  • Creative Capacity Fund Quick Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2014
  • Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2013
  • Faculty Development Grant, CCA
  • Mishkan Omanim Residency, Israel
2012
  • The Dorothy Saxe Invitational Award for Creativity in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
  • SECA Award Nominee, SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2011
  • Calder Hayes/Tevis Jacobes/ BAM Council Founder’s Award, UC Berkeley
  • Art Alumni Group Recognition Award, UC Berkeley
2010
  • Eisner Award Honorable mention, UC Berkeley
  • Merit Scholarships, UC Berkeley
2009
  • Student of Highest Distinction, CCA
  • Merit Scholarship, UC Berkeley
2008
  • CCA Faculty Honors Scholarship
  • Trustees Scholarship, CCA
  • Albertina Zanzel Endowed Scholarship
  • Ralph Borge Emeritus Scholarship
2007
  • CCA All College Honors
  • Trustees Scholarship, CCA
  • Albertina Zanzel Endowed Scholarship
  • Ralph Borge Emeritus Scholarship
2006
  • CCA Faculty Honors Scholarship.
  • Trustees Scholarship, CCA

PRESS

2017
  • Emergency Index– an Annual Document of Performance Practic, VOL. 6, by Index 2016 Contributors, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2017
2016
  • “Confidential Parent/Unborn Child Agreement,” Harama online Art Magazine, Issue #17 “Signature”, Rinat Edelstein and Yael Rochman, eds., Jerusalem, September 2016
  • Kineret Avivi Bloch, “Merav Tzur,” Floating Flat Forma Art Magazine, Tel Aviv, August 4, 2016
  • Moshe Zuckermann, “Archeology and Ideology,” Story & History Exhibition Catalog, Tel Aviv, July 2016, pp. 6­–7
  • Rivka Bakalash, “Merav Tzur: Story & History,” Story & History Exhibition Catalog, Tel Aviv, July 2016, pp. 3–5
  • Smadar Shefi, “Story & History,” The Window, Tel Aviv, August 3, 2016
2015
  • Rachel Buller, Fisch Hous Invitational Exhibition Series, exhibition catalog essay, Fisch Hous, April 2015, p. 4
  • Jayna Swartzman-Browsky, “Still Reading by the Fire,” Art 21 Magazine, December 2015
  • Amy Cancelmo, Introductions 2015, exhibition catalog, June 2015, pp. 12 and 17
2012
  • Dara Solomon (curator), Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought An Exhibition and the Dorothy Saxe Invitational, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Jewish Museum, February 2012
2011
  • JD Beltran, “Inarguably Uncertain, 41st Annual University of California, Berkeley, Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition,” SFGate, June 26, 2011
2004
  • New Visions, Artweek magazine, Palo Alto

SELECTED TALKS/LECTURES/PANELS

2017
  • Artist presentation, Creative Practice Exchange, The Museum for African Diaspora, San Francisco
2014
  • Panelist, “Ideas of Late, Conversation About Food Rituals and the Biblical Sabbatical Year,” Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Berkeley
  • Visiting artist lecture, Senior Media, SF State, San Francisco
2013
  • Panelist, CCA Sculpture Alumni, CCA
2012
  • Artist talk, “The Space Between,” Story Corps Story Booth, recorded at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, August 7, by Dan Schifrin and Kathryn Jaller
  • Conversations with Artists: Merav Tzur and Tucker Nichols” Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
  • Visiting artist lecture, Interdisciplinary Studies, CCA
  • Visiting artist lecture, Sculpture Junior Seminar, CCA
  • CCA First Year portfolio Review
  • Panelist: CCA Junior Review
2011
  • Panelist, CCA First-Year Portfolio Review, CCA
2010
  • Visiting artist lecture, The Language of Sculpture, UC Berkeley
  • Visiting artist lecture, New Genres, UC Berkeley
  • Visiting artist lecture, Introduction to Visual Thinking, UC Berkeley
  • Visiting artist lecture, Video Arts, UC Berkeley

TEACHING

2014-
  • Adjunct Faculty, Multimedia, Ohlone College
2017
  • Instructor, 2D and 3D, Zhong Ao Vocational College, Hefei, China
  • Lecturer,Medium and Message, San Jose State University
2015-6
  • Lecturer, Sculpture, San Francisco State University
  • Instructor, Creative Drawing, Richmond Art Center
2011-14
  • Lecturer, 4D,Time Based Narrative. CCA
  • Lecturer, Summer English + Studio for International Students,CCA
  • Lecturer, Drawing, Special Programs CCA
  • Adjunct Faculty, Sculpture, College of Marin
  • Adjunct Faculty, 2D Art Fundamentals, College of Marin
  • Adjunct Faculty, Drawing and Composition, College of Marin
2012
  • Lecturer, Drawing Pre-college, CCA
  • Lecturer, Experimental Drawing Atelier, CCA
  • Adjunct Faculty, Fiber Sculpture, College of Marin
2011
  • Guest artist instructor: Sight & Sound, CCA
  • Sub, Drawing and Composition, College of Marin
  • Lecturer, Life Drawing, CCA
2010-2011
  • GSI, Introduction to Visual Thinking, UC Berkeley
       

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