EDUCATION
- 2023- M.Ed Visual Literacy, Kibbutzim College
- 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
2025
- (solo)The Golden Sheaf or The Past is Yet to Come, Artist House Gallery, Jerusalem
- Demarcation, Fresh Paint Fair, Tel Aviv, with Esti Contes and Carla Grostine Gonen
- Performance at the exhibition opening and video screening at the museum, as part of the ancillary program accompanying the exhibition cluster Torn to Pieces, in collaboration with Esti Contes and Karla Grostein-Gonen, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
2024
- Seeing Close Seeing Transparent, Fresh Paint Fair, Tel Aviv, with Esti Contes
- Control/Lack of Control, Benyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, with Esti Contes and Carla Gonen
2022
- Apparent- The Political Body, Givat Haviva Gallery
- The Ladies, Benyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
- You Planted Music In Me, The White Gallery, Hatzor
- Performance Festival MA, Mitzpe Ramon, with Esti Contes
2021
- The Association For Unborn Humans, Fresh Paint Fair, Tel Aviv
- Pottery Slam 3, Beit Benyamini, Tel Aviv, with Esti Contes
- No Border, City Gallery for the Arts, Rishon Le Tzion, with Esti Contes
2020
- (solo) By Next Year, The White Gallery, Hatzor
2019
- Chish Chush Tours, Social Bauhaus, Haifa
- The Association for Unborn Humans, Factory #6, Performance event in conjunction with Fake News Fake Truths, Haifa Museum of Art
2018
- (solo) No Admittance, Central Michigan University Art Gallery, Mt. Pleasant
- 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, Artists’ House 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 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
2025
- Arad Center for Contemporary Art AIR, Israel
2020
- Arad Center for Contemporary Art AIR, Israel
2019
- Especially Outstanding Artist Grant, Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, Israel
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
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
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
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