Miri Nishri

Miri Nishri was born in 1950 in Colombia

Miri Nishri was born in Colombia in 1950. She came to Israel in 1958 with her mother and sister and grew up on Kibbutz Ginegar. Her father was absent from her life, and her mother was a Holocaust survivor.

She studied construction engineering at Ort Technicum in Givatayim from 1974 to 1976. From 1977 to 1981 she studied art at Hamidrasha in Ramat HaSharon, now part of Beit Berl College.

Her work spans painting, photography, video art and installations, and she often uses coffee as paint. Her video works deal with building and taking apart a personal identity, and often mix documentary and staged material. Her works were shown at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the Haifa Museum of Art and at festivals abroad.

Her project Is This Baby Yours? sent about 300 boxes with painted embryos to people around the world, and about 120 replied. Her 2006 video installation Troubled Water follows her mother Gita in her last days. She lives in Tel Aviv and teaches at the Tel Aviv Museum workshops.