Maya Attoun

Maya Attoun was an Israeli multidisciplinary artist from Jerusalem who worked in drawing and installation.

1974 to 2022Pencil drawings and installationsBody imagery in artThe exhibition Half Full

Died: 18 July 2022, Petah Tikva
Occupation: artist
Education: Tel Aviv University, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Maya Attoun was born in 1974 in Jerusalem

Maya Attoun was born in Jerusalem in 1974. She later lived and worked in Tel Aviv.

She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, earning a BFA in 1997 and an MFA in 2006. She also completed a second master's degree in art history at Tel Aviv University. She taught multidisciplinary art at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.

Her work centered on drawing, often in pencil, and on installations that combined murals, prints, objects and sound. Her imagery dealt with the body, with motifs such as skulls, hearts, blood vessels and ropes. It drew on European art of the 18th and 19th centuries, including neo-Gothic and Pre-Raphaelite styles.

In 2007 she showed a solo exhibition at the Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod and was a finalist for the Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize 2008. Later solo shows included Half Full at Givon Art Gallery in 2015 and Lover's Eye at the Haifa Museum of Art in 2017. In 2018 she published an artist book marking 200 years of Frankenstein.

Attoun died at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva on 18 July 2022.