Maya Cohen Levy

Maya Cohen Levy was born in 1955 in Tel Aviv

Maya Cohen Levy was born in Tel Aviv on August 2, 1955. Her mother, Rina Braun Levy, was a Holocaust survivor, painter and kindergarten teacher. Her father, Hasid Levy, was born in Afghanistan and worked in construction.

She studied painting at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in high school and later studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She studied art at the Kalisher school in Tel Aviv. She later studied calligraphy and sumi-e painting in Japan and traditional Chinese painting in Beijing.

Her first exhibition was held in 1981 at Dizengoff Center. Her work moved from expressionist images to series built on order and its disruption, using forms such as the sunflower, the palm tree and upside-down trees. In 2000 the Tel Aviv Museum of Art showed her series Ponds.

She taught at the Kalisher school, where she headed the painting department, and at Bezalel in Jerusalem. In 2005 she founded a studio in Tel Aviv where she teaches. She lives in Tel Aviv.