Biography
Shoshanna Givon, born in 1950, a graduate of the College of Art (1992), The Hebrew University (1971), lives and work in Israel.
A multidisciplinary artist who often engage in print, engraving, photography and textile processing. The works range from figurative to abstract and characterized by a dense carpet-textures in which flickering / assimilated various images. Black and white etchings, screen prints are larger and in color. The main subjects in her work ranges from personality to collective. She examining the affected body image in her daughter's portraits, identity and memory in images of her mother's jewelry, pour to the Israeli cypresses image textures and appropriates them. Recently investigating the image of the heart and examines the physical and symbolic dismantling. Print allows, working in layers and creating variations of the image. Metal engraving work is inherently connected to some of the issues as well as creating no .color bullets convey a sense of emptiness and the burning the memory
Education
1992 –School of Art, "Hamidrasha”, Ramat Hasharon, Print and photography
1997 - Member of the Professional Visual Artists Association Israel- IMPACT
1985 - Art and Painting studies, Kalisher, Tel Aviv
1972 – B.A in Archeology and Geography, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1973- 2006 –Art teacher and teacher training
Solo Exhibition
2022 - "Strands", Art Print Gallery, Rehovot Cultural Center, Curator: Yael Sonino Levy
2017 - "Beat", Cabri Gallery, Curator: Drora Dekel
2010 - "Mashaker", Beit Shmuel, Jerusalem. curator: Devorah Goldberger
2007 - "Between Trees and Non Trees", Beit Shmuel, Jerusalem. curator: Devorah Goldberger
2006 - "Miriam is Your Beloved Daughter", Artisits House, Tel Aviv. Curator: Arie Berkovezh
1998 - " Embroidered and Embedded ", Jerusalem Theatre
1997 - "Embroidered and Embedded", Efrat Gallery, Tel Aviv
Couple exhibition
2022 - Living-Plant-Still, Border Gallery - Kibbutz Hanita, with the artist Drora Dekel, curator: Rita Katz
Group Exhibitions
2023 - Running with Wolves, Modiin Maccabim Reut Artists' House, Curator: Tal Gelfer
2022 - Disruption, Stopping, Creation, Modiin Maccabim Reut Artists House, curators: Anat Shalov, Tal Margalit
2019 - And To Glory, Binyamini House, TA, Curator: Galina Arbeli, Adi Karlitz
2018 - "The Texture of the Heart", Less Than Thousand Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Yoad Bar Noy
2014 – Printing Biennale Douro 7, Spain. Curator: Nuno Canelas
2013 - Internationl Exhibition, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, U.S.A
2013- "Eye Territory", The Diaghilev live Art Boutique Hotel Tel-Aviv. Curator: Esh-Biniamenov
2012 – "Raimwnt", Gebo Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Rafael Barbebuy
2011 - Marziart International Gallery, Hamburg, Germany. Curator: Marion Zimmermann
2011 - Nord Art International Exhibition, Germany .curator: Wolfgang Gramm
2011 – Virtual Art Museum, MOCA, Brooklyn, New-York, U.S.A
2011 - "Time's Pools", Kiboz Haogen Gallery. Curator: Ora Kroll
2011 - "Beyond Material Aspects", Bur-Ilun University. curator: Amili Gelbman
2010 - "Coats of Light", The Other Gallery, Talpiot College, Cholon. Curator: Avner Bar- Hama
2010 - 30th Mini Print International, Cadaqes, Spain
2009 - "Expression Says", Hillel 17 Gallery, Jerusalem. Curator: Avner Bar- Hama
2007-" Portrait', The Gallery on the Cliff, Natanya. Curator: Arik Shniider
2006 - "Personal Femininity", Urban Gallery, Kfar- Saba curator: Aida Hoberman
1996 - Group Exhibition, Printing Workshop, Beit Berel, Kfar- Saba
Exhibitions for sale
2015 – ADA (studio antonina), Space of Art Project, Jerusalem
2015 – Gallery less than thousand $, Tel-Aviv
2015 – Art & about, Industrial Park, Amek-Hefer. Curator: Lee-More Cohen
2014 – Artabout, Israele Artists, Parterinsel, Munich, Germany. Curator: Lee-More Cohen
2014 –" For Aids", Bank Hpoalem, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Lee-More Cohen
2011 – ArtBracs, www.artbarcs.com, Chicago, U.S.A
2006 - Artisus, Artist House, Tel-Aviv
Publications
2015 - "Between East & West", Dira Naah, Home Style Magzine
2014 - The online Magazine Art 44 DEGREES, Isuue 13, "So Abstract", editor/producer: Tammy Mike Laufer
2010 - " Etching The Memory" , City Mouse, Jerusalem
2010 - ITCH, Poetry, Literature and Art Magazine, www.itch.co.za (archive - issue - 7)
2007 - " And I Saw a Cypress", City Mouse, Jerusalem
2006 - "Many Faces of Miriam", Moddin News
Her art works are in private collections in Israel and abroad