ABOUT
Maya Zehavi
Artist • Photographer • Educator
Maya Zehavi is an Israeli artist, photographer, and educator based in Ein Harod. Working across photography, objects, and installation, her practice explores the shifting relationships between image, material, memory, and place.Photography is both the starting point and the material of her practice. Working with self-produced photographs alongside found and archival images, she transforms photographic surfaces through layering, printing, material intervention, and installation. Moving between two- and three-dimensional forms, her work examines how images become physical objects, carrying traces of memory, absence, and transformation.Alongside her artistic practice, Zehavi teaches photography and visual arts, develops educational programs, and leads workshops for museums, schools, and community organizations. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and a B.Ed. in Art and Education from Hamidrasha – Beit Berl College.
Education:
2022-2020: M.F.A at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
2016-2012: B.Ed.F.A at the Midrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College
Solo Exhibitions:
2020: Milestone, Atelier Shemi, Kibbutz Cabri, curator: Smadar Schindler
2017: Dark Matter, Hayarkon 19 Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Boaz Arad
Dual Exhibitions:
2024:
Leopard Spots, collaboration with Mor Peled, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
2023:
Halata, Bread & Roses Gallery, Tel Aviv
In His/Her Image, The Cube Gallery, Jerusalem - collaboration with Mor Peled
Likui, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025:
Zumo Upper Galilee
Merima, LGBT center, Tel Aviv
Home Field,
Evacuation and Reconstruction project (Pinui-Binui), Rishon LeZion
2024:
Scorched Earth, HAC, Jerusalem
2023:
Parallel Layers, Beta Gallery, Jerusalem
2022:
Soft Belly, Bezalel MFA Final Exhibition, Tel Aviv
2021:
A Moment After What Cannot Be Touched, MFA Bezalel, Tel Aviv
2020:
Urban Vegetation and Wild Herbs, Drapler Gallery Musrara, Jerusalem
Essential Surface Facets, Edmund de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv
2019:
Contradictory Messages, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv
Contact Sheet, Indie Gallery for Photography,Tel Aviv
2018:
International Photography Festival, Relations, Tel Aviv
Fresh Paint 10, Tel Aviv
2017:
P8 Gallery, Kinetics, Tel Aviv
Indie Gallery for Photography, Million Particles, Tel Aviv
2016:
Festival of Israeli Art in London, TLV in LDN, London
2015: HaYarkon 19, Lies and Transitions, Tel Aviv
Curatorial projects:
2025: Crazy Cow, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv
2024: One String is Enough, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2023: Full cycle, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv
2022: Beneath the Street Light - Art Festival, Kibbutz Ein-Shemer
2021: Scattegories, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv
2019: Hamidrasha faculty of Arts End-of-Year Exhibition B.Ed.F.A
2019: Stupid Cupid, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018: Animal Kingdom ,Hamidrasha faculty of Arts2017: Tova Daya, Central Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017: Kinetica, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017: Million Particles, Indie Gallery for Photography, Tel Aviv
Awards and Grants:
2021: First-year Excellence Award, Bezalel M.F.A
2017: Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation for the Arts and Urban Culture, Tel Aviv
2016: Excellence Certificate, haMidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl
2016: Excellence Certificate (Printing Grant), haMidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl
2016: Grant for Final Exhibition Production, "Rea - Photography Workshop’’, Tel Aviv
Publication and Catalogs:
Remnants, Punctum Magazine for Analog Photography, Issue #2, May 2022
Essential Surface, Edmund de Rothschild Center, January 2020
Lobster Surfer, Uzi Tzur, Haaretz, September 2017
Conceptual, Loosen Art, January 2018, p.49
Residencies:
2022: Ironi T High School, Yad Eliyahu, Tel Aviv
Teaching Experience:
Emuna College (Photography, Visual Culture & Photoshop)High school art teacher (2017–present)Workshops for museums, schools, and community organizations