Art and designמרב שין בן-אלון

Merav Shinn Ben-Alon

Merav Shinn Ben-Alon is a Tel Aviv artist who works in painting, drawing, installation and writing, and the author of the graphic novella "Five Legs".

born 1965The graphic novella "Five Legs"The "Stitches" shirt seriesPaintings on identity and loss

Occupation: painter

Merav Shinn Ben-Alon was born in 1965 in Israel

Merav Shinn Ben-Alon was born in 1965 and grew up in Tel Aviv. She still lives and works in the city.

She graduated with honors from the art department of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 1990. In 1991 she studied at the New York Studio School. In 2013 she earned a master's degree with honors from the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts at Tel Aviv University.

From 1990 to 2000 she focused on oil painting, with themes of identity, womanhood and loss. In 2000 she stopped painting and began working with old shirts stretched on frames, a series called "Stitches". In the same period she started writing, first on studio walls and later in site-specific installations.

Her work has been shown at the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Haifa Museum of Art and abroad in Tokyo, Latvia, Germany and London. She received the Ministry of Culture's creative encouragement award in 2005 and 2014. In 2020 she published "Five Legs", a graphic novella about the exposure of a family secret.