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Maya Zack is an installation and film artist. She was born in Israel in 1976. She lives and works in Tel Aviv. She has had solo exhibitions at the Alon Segev Gallery in Tel Aviv, the Natalie Seroussi Gallery in Paris, the Bezalel Gallery in Jerusalem, the CUC Gallery in Berlin, and others.

Her work has been included in group shows in Berlin, Munich, Milan, New York, and other cities. Zack’s work is in many museum collections, including the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and Beit Hatfutsot Museum in Tel Aviv.

Zack’s films have been screened at festivals in Los Angeles, Vienna, Paris, Cologne, Budapest, Haifa, Tel Aviv and New York. In 2008, she was awarded Germany’s Celeste Art Prize for Mother Economy. Living Room was the winner of the Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design in Jerusalem in 2010.

Education

1996-2000 The Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Fine Art Department, Jerusalem. Magna Cum Laude.(B.F.A)
1999 - 2000 Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Student Exchange Program
2004 -11 Tel Aviv University, Arts faculty. Interdisciplinary Arts Program M.A.

Teaching

2005-08 Tel Aviv University Department of Film & Television, Arts Faculty
Since 2008 Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem, Lecturer
2013–2015 Shenkar College of Design and Engineering, Ramat Gan

Awards And Prizes

2000 Prize for Excellence in Studies, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel
2002 Fund for Video-Art and Experimental Cinema Prize, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2002 The Arts Department, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2005 Fund for Video-Art and Experimental Cinema Prize, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2005 Prize for a Young Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2007 The New Israeli Foundation For Cinema and Television
2007 Award, The Council of Art and Culture at the National Lottery
2007 Best Foreign Film Award, Szemletek Visionaudial Film Festival, Pec's, Hungary
2007 Students Jury Special Prize, Szemletek Visionaudial Film Festival, Pec's, Hungary
2008 Award, The Council of Art and Culture at the National Lottery
2008 Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2008 Celeste Kunstpreis, Art Prize Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2008 Special Mention, Imaginaria International Film Festival, Conversano, Italy
2008 "Ideas Museum" Special Prize, International Festival of Independent Cinematography “KinoLev”, Lvov, Ukraine
2009 The New Israeli Foundation For Cinema and Television
2010 Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art & Design, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2010 Artist-in-residence, JAI (Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California), Los Angeles, USA
2011 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Culture and Sport
2011 Artist-in-residence, Kuva - Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland.
2011 Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Isracard Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2011 Artist's Grant Recipient
2011 "Poetry of the Image" Special Award, The International Film Festival, Patras, Greece
2012 Award, The Council of Art and Culture at the National Lottery
2013 Israeli Artist Grant, Spielman Institute for Photography, (SIP), Tel Aviv
2014 Artist-in-residence, The International Exchange Program - Frauenkulturbüro NRW, Dusseldorf, Germany
2015 Grant, Ostrovsky Family Found
2015 Award, The Council of Art and Culture at the National Lottery
2016 Artist's Grant Recipient
2016 Outset Grant recipient