Michal Heiman

[2] Heiman teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

In 2017, Heiman exhibited her solo exhibition, AP – Artist Proof, Asylum (The Dress, 1855-2017), at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art – a large-scale installation and performance work that incorporated the participation and input of visitors, and which raised questions concerning the notion of the right to return.

Heiman brings her critical voice to bear on issues of history, while engaging with human rights and more specifically, women's rights, exploring and questioning the ability of visual tools to penetrate traumatic experiences through different tactics and pre-enactments, as well as examine the photographic medium, its therapeutic potential, and its role in the struggle for social justice.

Her enactment and installation works, archival materials, photography and film series, and her lectures/performances are deeply rooted in the political, familial, and social arenas.

From 2019 to 2020, Heiman exhibited work in the United States, focusing on her growing archive of narratives and histories of marginalized, pioneering, and revolutionary women, first with Radical Link: A New Community of Women, 1855–2020 in Washington, D.C., and then with Hearing in Los Angeles, California.