Artist Name: Dana Nechmad
Residency Dates: November – March 2024
Born: 1985
Hometown: Tel Aviv, IL
Lives & Works: Tel Aviv, IL – New York, USA
URL: dananechmad.com
Education:
2016 – 2018 | M.F.A in Painting and Drawing / The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois (New Artist Society Merit Scholarship)
2015 | Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing / The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois
2012 – 2014 | M.A. in Philosophy / Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 – 2010 | B.F.A. in Painting / Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (L.A.B.A), Florence, Italy
Summer 2012 | Certificate / Columbia University School of the Arts, Paris, France
2007 – 2010 | Certificate / Angel Academy of Arts, Florence, Italy
Bio/Statement:
Dana Nechmad’s practice is an ongoing, medium-spanning endeavor in which she aims to unravel the physical, psychological, and philosophical construct that is the human body. At the core of her practice is the tenuous relationship between interiority and exteriority, what is seen and what is felt. Evolving across multiple geographies, fields of knowledge and mediums, her practice includes painting, textile work, ready-made, and installation—different approaches through which she explores ways of embodiment and representation.
Originally schooled in oil painting and life drawing, this very traditional masterful education instilled her with an appreciation for technique, which she alternatively employs and challenges in her varied studio practice. Progressing from canvas to textile, Nechmad utilizes bleaching, dying, embroidering, sewing and de-constructing on fabrics and garments, further exploring the body’s relationship to material and spatial form. Her paintings and textile works complete one another, with the first looking on from the outside, and the other seeking to penetrate inward.
In 2018-2019, she participated in the FIELD/WORK Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL. In 2019 Nechmad founded the experimental artist-run Pen Incest Art Publication alongside artist Samir Nahas. Nechmad exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions in various international settings including: “Woman, Womyn, Womxn”, a duo show with David Heo, Detroit Art Week, Detroit, MI (2019); “In Tension” at The Bee in the Lion Gallery, NYC (2019); “Mother and Child” at Almacen Gallery in Jaffa (2022); and “Stepping Stones” at Loushy Art Project space in Tel Aviv (2022). Her work can be found in the Dubi Shiff Art Collection, LunArt Collection, Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Rappaport Family Collection, and more. She is the recipient of the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship (2016-18), New American Painting #131 (2017), and the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration grant (2018).
