Nava Waxman is an Israeli-born Canadian artist who lives and works in Toronto. Drawing upon diverse means of expression, including painting, drawing, photography, performance, video, objects, and installation. The main themes in her work are movement, temporality, and gestures. Her work examines how notions of liminality, diaspora, and in-betweenness are experienced in the perspective and context of culture, identity, and the creative process.
Her current research has been granted a York University’s Graduate Scholarship and the Joseph Armand Bombardier Scholarship Award from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2016, Nava was awarded the Canada Art Council Travel Grant for her collaborative project “Elements Of Chance”. In 2018, she was awarded the Ontario Art Council Exhibition Assistance Grant for her solo project “Choreographed Marks” at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham.
Nava Waxman
Education
2018 - MFA in Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, Canada
2007 - Toronto School of Art
1999 - BA Social Sciences & Communication - OPEN University, Tel-Aviv
Awards\Grants\Fellowship
2019 Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's SSHRC
2018 Ontario Art Council - Exhibition Assistance Grant
2017 Ontario Art Council - Exhibition Assistance Grant
2016 Canada Council for the Arts - Travel Grant Recipient
Teaching experience
2019 Teaching Assistant, York University, Toronto (Photography)
2019 Teaching Assistant, York University, Toronto (History Of Design)
Selected Solo exhibition
2019 Choreographed Marks, The Varley Art Gallery of Markham
2018 Polyphonies, Sheldon Rose Gallery, Toronto
2016 Untitled wall, WallSpace Gallery, Ottawa
2015 Traces - Julie MGallery, Toronto
2014 Rituals - WallSpace Gallery, Ottawa Canada
2013 Personifications - JulieM Gallery, Toronto, Canada Catalogue
2011 Connections Within Context, Anong Beam & Nava Waxman - - Earl Court Gallery, Hamilton.
2009 Elephants, Engine Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2009 Inscriptions, Work on Paper, Pennello Gallery, Cleveland
2008 Daily Habit, The Blue Dot Gallery, Toronto
selected Group Exhibition
2020 Wave, The Varley Art Gallery of Markham
2019 Between States - Special Project Gallery, York University
2017 Space Within, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto
2015 Migratory Cyclical, JulieM Gallery, Toronto
2014 Women in the Art, St. Stephan Cultural Centre - Rome, Italy
2012 Contemporary Women Artists XVI – Women’s Caucus for Art, St. Louis, USA
2012 Koan – ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy
2011 Spiritual Essence - ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy
2011 Consequential Fusion: Message In Wax - Art Centre Morro Bay, CA
2011 Diary Pieces,The Art House, Wakefield, England
2011 Leave Light On - Hovinkartano Art Centre, Hauho, Finland
2007 Insomnia - RedHead Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Discovered - Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 The Legacy of the Circle -McKay Art Centre, Markham Canada
Collaborative projects
2019 - Variations on Blue Gestures, Practice based research, Nava Waxman, Cinzia Cavalieri, Mahsa Alikhani, Sebastian Oreamuno
2018 Knowing River - Body Notes , Sheldon Rose Gallery, Ronley Teper, Lo Bil, Nava Waxman
2017 Three strings - Interventions, Alfred Institute, Tel-Aviv Uri Levinson, Adaya Godlevesky and Shlomit Carmeli
2016 Transitions, Adaya Godlevesky - Petach-Tikva Museum of art, Israel
2016 Elements Of Chance - Interventions, Draw To Perform Symposium, CrowsNest Gallery 2016, London
2016 Möbius, Ram Samocha, OCAD University, Toronto.
2016 At your Sonic, For Filmartist.ca, Tomoki Takeuchi & Paris zhang & Nava Waxman, Toronto
2016 Sonic for String, Adaya Godlevsky, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Israel 2015 Repetition Five, Gallery 151, Brussels, Belgium
2015 “Between Intimacy and Architecture” Artscape Young-place, Toronto.
Publication
Waymark: MFA Visual Art Digital Publication, York University, 2020
Gateways to Drawing by Stephen Gardner. Nava Waxman: Elements Of Chance , 2018 Thames & Hudson
Traces: Poems to Paintings By James Wagner and Nava Waxman, Ceratonia Siliqua Press, 2015
Black With Sin, Calmly with Virtue, By Seth Apter, North light books, 2011