Dana Nechmad is an interdisciplinary artist working with painting, drawing, embroidery and video. She is interested in moments of emotional threshold and how they are manifested in the body. Through figurative, abstract and textual gestures, Nechmad brings to the surface internal marks experienced within.
Education:
2016 - 2018: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois / MFA
2015: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois / Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and drawing
2012 - 2014: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel / MA in Philosophy
2007 - 2010: Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (L.A.B.A), Florence, Italy / BFA in Painting
2007 - 2010: Certificate / Angel Academy of Arts, Florence, Italy
Selected Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:
2025: 'Ripped', Mandy Zhang Gallery, London, England (Curated by Tamar Dresdner)
2022: ‘Stepping Stones’, Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curated by Meir Loushy)
2022: ‘Segment #3: Mother and Child’, Almacén Gallery, Jaffa, Israel (Curated by Yaniv Lachman)
2019: ‘In Tension’, The Bee in the Lion gallery, New York, New York (Curated by Bee Tham)
2019: ‘Woman, Womyn, Womxn’, duo show with David Heo, Young Curators, New Ideas, Detroit Art Week, Trumbull and Porter Hotel, Detroit, MI (Curated by Luna Goldberg)
2011: ‘Stealth units’, as part of International Women’s Day, Villa Dallal, Neve Zedek, Tel Aviv, Israel
Group Exhibitions:
2025: 'Transitory Gestures', RU Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York (curated by Data Chigholashvili)
2024: 'Shuttle 3', Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2023: 'Cruel Spring', LATITUDE Gallery, New York, New York (curated by Shihui Zhou)
2023: ‘Emotional Landscape’, ForMah Gallery, New York, New York (curated by Maryana Kaliner)
2022: 'And the World was Pretty Wonderful', Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curated by Maya Bamberger)
2022: ‘Fruit of Labor’, Room 57 Gallery, New York, New York
2022: ‘The Big Embroidery’, On the cliff gallery, Natenya, Israel (Curated by Adi Yekutieli)
2021: Fresh Paint Art Fair, Artists’ Greenhouse, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curated by Raz Shapira)
2019: 'Take Care', Ground Level gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Curated by Luna Goldberg)
2019: ‘I am you Venus’, The Bee in the Lion gallery, New York, New York (Curated by Bee Tham)
2019: ‘Our Elements’, Lower East Side Girls Club, New York, New York
2018: Site-specific Installation, ‘Pen Incest’, Gallery 062, Chicago, Illinois
2018: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ‘MFA thesis exhibition’, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
2018: Video screening, 'Mooving Image', Lithium Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2017: ‘Reunion II’, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2017: ‘Netflix and Chill’, Apartment Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2017: ‘Declarations of Contemporary’, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois
2017: ‘Who is She?’, DFBRL8R Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (curated by Kirsten Leenaars)
2016: Video screening, ‘Art Video International Festival’, Jerusalem, Israel
2016: Video screening, ‘CHICAGQ’, Chicago, Illinois, and Góis/Coimbra, Portugal
2016: ‘One in Herself’, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2015: ‘Bad Painting’, SAIC Open Studio Night, Chicago, Illinois
2014: ‘For Your Eyes Only”, Hecht House, Haifa, Israel (curated by Moti Harari)
2013: ‘Face Off’, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (curated by Adi Gura)
2013: ‘Inside the Whale’ at The Container, Jaffa, Israel
2012: ‘Art of the Heart’, Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Israel (curated by Smadar Shefi)
2012: Reid Hall Paris, France (curated by Gregory Amenoff)
2011: ‘Pintzeta', Tel Aviv, Israel (curated by Yael Braun)
2011: NATAL organization, Tel Aviv, Israel (curated by Tamar Dresdner)
2010: ‘The Museum Windows’, Ramat Aviv, Israel
Awards and grants:
2024: Finalist in the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2019: The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration grant
2017: New American Painting ,juried exhibition-in-print, issue #131
2016-2018: New Artist Society Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011: First prize at the Merilyncomparetto international online competition
Collections:
Dubi Shiff Art collection
Joan Flasch artist book Collection
John M. Flaxman Library
LunArt Collection
Private Collections
Publications:
2023: Audra Lambert / Emotional Landscapes Explored at FORMah / Creatix Magazine
https://creatrixmag.com/emotional-landscapes-explored-at-formah
2022: ‘To be haunted by Ghosts’, Uzi Tzur, Haaretz
2022: Reut Barnea, ‘Embroidering a Story’, Textura Magazine
https://textura-mag.org/views/1025/
2021: Sharon Golan Meiri, ‘Wearing a Mufleta, Embroidering words’, Mako Culture magazine,
https://www.mako.co.il/culture-books-and-theatre/Article-7c1a9ccfec1ac71026.htm
2021: ODDA Magazine interview / issue #17: Connections.
2021: ‘The Cry of Art: On Violence against Women in Israel’ / Curated and edited by Shula Keshet and Yaara Raz Haklai. Published by Achoti foundation
https://achoti.com/products/product-301
2019: Take Care publication edited by Luna Goldberg / Ground Level platform Chicago Illinois
2018: ADF Magazine / Interview. Japan
2018: Studio Visit Magazine volume 41
http://studiovisitmagazine.com/volume-forty-one-participants
2018: Voyage Chicago / Interview. Chicago Illinois
http://voyagechicago.com/interview/meet-dana-nechmad-dana-nechmad-loop/
2017: Dubi Shiff Art collection and permanent exhibition catalog /Curator: Iris Barak. Tel Aviv, Israel