Shira Heiman
Born in Jerusalem, 1991.
Graduated with honors from the Education and Teaching Faculty, HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl Academic College (2020); currently completing her master’s degree in the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts, Tel Aviv University; holds a certificate of excellence from the ORT educational network (12th grade, 2009); won an excellence scholarship from Beit Berl College (March 2020) and a certificate of excellence in the field of art from HaMidrasha (August 2020).
Since 2018 she has been working as a teaching assistant to Ms. Bieberman Efrat, Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Art through Psychoanalytic Thought. She also worked as an assistant at HaMidrasha’s Digital Lab. She volunteered at a boarding school for youth at risk (2011) and taught art to the young inmates of Ofek Prison (August-September 2019).
Shira Heiman works mainly in analog and digital photography and video. Her work practice involves wandering through a space and deconstructing it, usually by exposing a multiplicity of perspectives. Central to her work is the human body which she examines through the concept of “scale” (in both its concrete and metaphorical meaning). Deconstruction, duplication, distortion, subtraction and addition are used to express the feeling of being both here and there — or perhaps, neither here nor there.
Group exhibitions
- BFAMI NOW – A Benefit Sale of Emerging Israeli Photographers
- Graduate Exhibition, HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl Academic College
- In Common, Hayarkon 19 Gallery (June 2018)
- Breaking Point, Givatayim Theater, Curators: Doron Polak and Roni Griffit
