CV

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

(solo) “No Admittance”, Central Michigan University Art Gallery, Mt. Pleasent
“FUTURE CITIES: Metropolis Re-Imagined,” Center for Architecture + Design Gallery, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco
“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:, “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 39^th 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
“Footnote^7″, 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

2018

“Searching for the Gate to Transcendence”, artist lecture, Central Michigan University, MI

2017

“Fabricated Fertile Spaces”, artist lecture, Lake Forest College, IL
“Video Tutorials as Cultural Exchange,” 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

2018

Lecturer, Design Foundation, Central Michigan University

2014-2018

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