Artist Statement/ Biography

Tamar Nissim artistic practice diverse in the fields of video, photography, performance, and working within communities. It reflects her interest as multi-disciplinary artist in women's personal and collective memories, and their ethic perspective. Nissim's artistic process is based on historical research that combines academic and archival research; interviews; personal texts; manuscripts; drawings; historical photography; and periodical films. The visual and textual research methods are a starting point for video, installation and performance works that amplify the voices of women that opposed the dominant ideology of their time. In her artwork she reveals the methods used by the hegemony, to dominate women, and persuade them to be agents of the dominated ideology within the domestic and public sphere.

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Tamar Nissim, an Israeli multidisciplinary artist,Awarded The Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports Award for the Arts (2019). exhibits in museums, galleries, nonprofit institutions, video screens and film festivals, as: Tel Aviv Museum, Israel (2011); The Jerusalem Film Festival (2011, 2021,2023); Guimaraes Biennial, Portugal (2012); Museum Bat Yam, Israel (2012, 2017); Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (2013); Indie-Collective Gallery, Israel (2015, 2018, 2021); HaMiskan, Ein Harod (2017); Kniznick Gallery-HBI, Waltham USA (2022); Brunei Gallery, London (2022); Haifa Museum (2017,2023), est. Graduated: "The Advanced Artist Program" and "M.Ed. in Art Education", Hamidrasha, Israel (2012); BA with Honor, Shankar college (1987); Honored: Honorable mention at the Guimaraes Triennial, Portugal (2012). Ha’ Pais Council for the Culture and Arts grant (2018, 2022); Artis Grant (2023).

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