Jerusalem, Israel, 1988
Miriam Naeh is a multidisciplinary London-based artist working with sculpture, video, photography, and installation. Through these, she explores the way stories, characters, and objects alter our collective memory as they are retold and revisited. Storytelling implies an act of translation of a given event; she emphasizes this notion by mixing the imaginary and the surreal within the world of nonfiction, seeking to create a space where the poetic and the comical coexist.Naeh earned her MFA at Goldsmiths University, London ,2018. She has received various awards, including the a-n Bursaries: Time Space Money (2022), the Freelands Foundation Fund grant (2020), the Gilbert Bayes Award (2019) and the Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2018). Solo and group shows include Double ForeHead, Chemist Gallery, London (solo, 2023), Channelling - Frieze Art Fair, Stilled Images, Tube Gallery, Palma (2023), Tired Beings, Discovery Section's Sculpture Park at Photo London, Somerset House (solo, 2022), Star Trap, Pump House Gallery, Tel-Aviv (solo, 2021), Adam’s Rock, MoBY- Museum in Bat Yam (2019), Tall Tales, Tall Tails, Castor Gallery, London (solo, 2018). She has participated in residencies such as Rupert Residency, Vilnius (2021), Outset Bialik Residency, Tel Aviv (2019) and more.
