Maya Attoun – Solar Mountains and Broken Hearts

Maya Attoun was born in Jerusalem in 1974. She lives and works in Tel Aviv. Attoun acquired both a BFA and MFA at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Attoun is a multidisciplinary artist, engaging in a dialogue between thought processes, intuited gestures, materials and images. Her work encompasses a variety of media that includes murals, drawings, prints, sculptural objects, ready-mades and sound. Through these she reflects on modernity, history of popular culture, and the intersection of myth, narrative and science. Attoun is a lecturer at the Multidisciplinary Art Faculty, Shenkar College for Engineering and Design, and at the School of Visual Theatre.

Attoun’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. One person and dual exhibitions: Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel (2019); Jewish Museum, London, England (2018); Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv, Israel (2018); Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (2017); Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2016); Flisch Gallery, Rome, Italy (2012); Solo exhibition for shortlisted candidates for the Natan Gottesdiener Foundation’s Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2009). In addition, Attoun has participated in group exhibitions at: MACT / CACT Ticino Museum and Contemporary Art Center, Bellinzona, Switzerland; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Manofim Festival, Jerusalem, Israel; Maria & Vadim Zakharov Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Mormon University, Jerusalem, Israel; The 6th and 7th Drawing Biennial, Jerusalem, Israel; Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Gouangzhou, China; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Kallio Kunsthall, Helsinki, Finland and Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden.