Nava Waxman is a Toronto based visual artist. Her practice engaged with Ideas of movement, transition, and temporality with notions of identity from both personal and cultural context. Nava combines a range of media, including performance, drawing, photography, and objects. Through the synthesis process, she uses various choreographic methods to generate, construct, and repeat movements to explore multiple modes of body inscription, themes of ritual, continuity, and change and gestures in time and space. With an emphasis on process, gestures, and documentation, she explores various kind of temporalities, forms of body movement, sometimes camera movement, as well as the use of sequential imagery, or the effect of blurring and erasure.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and abroad in solos and group exhibitions. She is currently an MFA Candidate at York University, Toronto, and holds a BA in Social Science and communication from The Open University. Nava is a recipient of grants from the SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship-Master’s, the Ontario art council, and the Canada art council.
EDUCATION
2018 - MFA Candidate, Visual Art, York University
2007 - Toronto School of Art
1999 - BA Social Sciences & Communication - OPEN University
SOLO EXHIBITION
2019 "Choreographed Marks", The Varley Art Gallery of Markham
2018 "Polyphonic", 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 Beyond Reason - Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2011 Anong Beam & Nava Waxman - Connections Within Context - Earl Court Gallery, Hamilton. 2010 New Works - Engine Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2009 Incomparable Freedom - Engine Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2009 Works on Paper - Pennello Gallery, Cleveland, USA
2008 Coincident -The Blue Dot Gallery –Toronto, Canada
2009 Back in Element - The Blue Dot Gallery – Toronto, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITION
2019 - Between States - Special Project Gallery, York University
2017 Space Within, Walnut Contemporary
2015 "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
2012 “Paper” – Wallspace Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2011 Spiritual Essence Of Art - ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy
2011 Consequential Fusion: Message In Wax - Art Centre Morro Bay, California, USA 2011 Diary Pieces - The Art House, Wakefield, England
2011 Leave Light On - Hovinkartano Art Centre, Hauho,Finland
2010 Music and Beyond - Wallspace Gallery – Ottawa, Canada
2008 OneLessAJury -Niagara Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Nuit Blanche - IndexG Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Insomnia - Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Discovery - Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 The Legacy of the Circle -McKay Art Centre, markham Canada
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2017 “Embodying” - Adaya Godlevesky, Uri Levinson, Nava Waxman, Alfred Institute,
Tel-Aviv
2016 "Torso" In collaboration with Adaya Godlevesky - Petach-Tikva Museum of art, Israel
2016 “Elements Of Chance” - Durational performance, Draw To Perform Symposium, Crownest Gallery 2016 “Sonic” - Ram Samocha & Nava Waxman, Encaustic drawing performance
2016 “Mobius” in collaboration with Ram Samocha, OCAD University, Toronto.
2016 “Sonic” for string, Tomoki Takeuchi & Paris zhang & Nava Waxman, Toronto
2016 “Sonic” In collaboration with Adaya Godlevsky, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Israel 2015 Repetition Five, Gallery 151, Brussels, Belgium
2015 “Between Intimacy and Architecture” Artscape Youngplace, Toronto.
GRANTS & AWARDS
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
2015 Best Photo Based Award - SNAP Toronto
2011 2nd Place Award - Consequential Fusion –International Encaustic Artists 2008 TAP Toronto - The Orange Award
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEW
Gateways to Drawing by Professor Stephen Gardner. A 2018 Thames & Hudson
“Elements Of Chance” Oxford Brookes University. Drawing: Research, Theory,
Practice,
“Untitled Wall” By Nikos kount & Nava Waxman
”Traces” Poems to Paintings By James Wagner and Nava Waxman
Munrach Daily
The Exhibisionist By R.M Vaughn, THE GLOB AND MAIL
Mapping a World Beyond Reason By Jhon K.Grand
Women.ca By Carli Mia
The Mixed media Artists By Seth Apter, North light books, 2011
NearSay NYC – Review of The Artist Project NY, by Seth Apter
“Eye On Arts” Bill Gladstone
“The Spiritual Essence of Art” ARTROM Network
"Personifications" By Nadja Sayej
Fall For beauty - Art Cover - Album by Lynn Miles