Born 1947
Immigrated from Tunisia 1956
Married + 3 children
 
Teaches Art: Drawing, Aquarelle and Acrylic, communally and privately,
and at the University Center of External Education,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
 
2016 Redline residency Beer Sheva
2009- present day Member of IMPAC – the professional visual artists association, Israel
2001- 2008- Active artist at the Etching Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim
1967- 1994- RN at the Neurosurgery Department ( Head Nurse) and Emergency Room, Soroka Hospital, Beer Sheva
1988-present day   Member of Israel Association of painter and Sculptors
1988-present day   Teaches painting in various community centers and in the post-graduate study  /  Program at Ben Gurion University
 
Education
2016  Language of  colors in oil painting " Hakolel studio "  /Ran Tanenbaum Tel Aviv
2013  Sumi-E  Japanese brush Talia Lehavi
2013  Summer school "Hatahana studio"  oil painting / Ran Tanenbaum Tel Aviv           
2004- Computer graphics, Sivan College (John Bryce)
2002-2003- Painting workshop, Sharet House, Givataim
1996-1997- Print Workshop, College of Visual Arts, Beer Sheva
1996-1997- Bob Lesley Paper Workshop, College of Visual Arts, Beer Sheva
1988-1989-Etching Workshop, College of Visual Arts Beer Sheva
1985-1986 Watercolor and Oil Painting, DCC Baltimore, U.S.A.
1983-1985-Drawing and Painting, College of Visual Arts, Beer Sheva
 
Solo Exhibitions
2015-    "Unpicked memories" Key college Gallery.  Beer Sheva, Curators: Aviva Marziano, Moshe Balmas, Israel Rabinowitz
2012-    "Perspective"    Beer Tseva Gallery Beer Sheva, Curator: Zecharya Sade
2010-   "etching of home"Al Hagiva gallery of art,Metar
2010-   "Chair=Place" ApartArt gallery. tel Aviv
2009-   "Colorful Landscapces" Genetic institude Soroka hospital 
2008-   "Open Ties", Seamgallery,Megadim     
2007-   "Etchings + ", Negev Artists’ House, Beer Sheva
2006-   "Signs", Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva
2005-   "From Landscape", Beit Daphna Gallery, Omer
2003-   "Paintings" Sharet House, Givataim
1996-   "Paintings" Amalia Arbel Gallery , Rishon Letzion 
1992-   "Local Color" Conservatorium, Beer Sheva
1988-   "Longing" Joe Alon Center – The Museum of Bedouin Culture, Kibbutz Lahav
 
 
Group Exhibitions
 

   2017-   "Art in Migration"  Avraham Baron Art Gallery,  BGU university Beer Sheva
   2017-   "Going to Down Town"  Trumpeldor Art Gallery Beer Sheva
   2016-   "A common business"  Valentina's Galanterie (haberdashery) Sderot
   2016-  "Prints Workshop"  Tziurim gallery kibutz Urim,  Curator: Zohar Morag/ Dov Heller
   2016-  "Women  Craft " the City hall Galley of Raanana. Curator: Orna Pihman  Catalog
   2015-  " 70 years to the Victory over the Nazis" Chagal house Haifa
   2015-  Memory of the future Curator: Margalit Barriet
   2015-  "Transformation"  Loving  art in Tel Aviv . Curator Ziv Peleg Ben Zeev  Catalog
   2015-  "meitar 30 years" Al Hagiva gallery Meitar. Curator: Lora Bahar
   2014-  "Time table" ZOA house.  Curator: Margalit Barriet, Doron Polak
   2012-  "First of May, Israeli Art Nirim gallery collection" The White House.  Curator: Haim Peri
   2012-  "Black/White + 1" Art Gallery, Kibutz Gan Shmuel. Cutator: Dorit Talmon
   2011-  "First of May" Nirim Prints Workshop. Curator: Noga Raved
   2011-  "talking thru lines " "    Beer Tseva Gallery Beer Sheva, Curator: Zecharya Sade
   2011-  "close to home / Memory of a place" " Key college Gallery.  Beer Sheva, Curators Israel Rabinowitz

2010-   "Summer" Al Hagiva galerry of art, Metar
2010-   "Obsessive tecnic" Daniel's House ,Jafo
2010-   "2/2 Dounams at the Heart", Gross Gallery,Tel -Aviv
2010-   "This beauty has a taste of war" Haifa artists' house
2010-   "Spring in Metar" Al Hagiva Art gallery
2010-   "There are no such animals" Gedera's Historical Museum
2010-   "What goes around comes around" Yavene artists' house
2010-   "Women 10" Shoham Performung Art Center
2010-   "The Magic wands 2" Hankin Design Gallery, Holon
 
2009-   "Cords" Ala Giva Art gallery, Metar
2009-   "Greetings and felicitations"  Ala Giva Art Gallery, Metar
2009-   "New year greetings cards" Gedera's Historical Museum
2009-    "Home" Aprtart gallery, tel- Aviv
2009 -  "Seam",  Seamgallery, Megadim
2009 - " I Am Israelien", Meitar Art Gallery, Meitar
2009 -   "Etchings", Institude - Nirim Prints Workshop, Jerusalem Prints Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim
2009-    "Sweets or Spikes",Meir Nitzan Culture and Education Hall, Rishon Le Tzion
2009 -   "A Dish Of   Life", International Wemen's Day, Hall of Culture, Kfar Saba
2009 -   "Lines-Etching and Prints Artists", Gan Shmuel Art Gallery,Kibutz Gan Shmuel
2009 -   "A Flowerpot In The Farm",Interdisciplinary Ecological Art , Farm Gallery' Holon
2009 -   "Negev Adom" (Red Negev), Kibutz Hatzerim
 
2008 -   "Artistic Prints", Negev Artists’ House, Beer Sheva
2008 -   "Meitar Wind",  Meitar Art Gallery, Meitar
2008 -   "israelien Summer", Hanita Contemporary Art  Musium, Hanita
2008 -    Meitar Artists Exhibition, Meitar Art Gallery, Meitar
2008 -   "Women Colors" , Public Library , Beer Sheva
2008 -   "Adom"(Red), Negev Artists’ House, Beer Sheva
 
2007-   "Desert Generation", Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2007-   "The Magic Wands", Seamgallery, Megadim
2007-   "Rekamot- Embroidery and Calligraphy in Contemporary Israeli Art", Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva  
2007-   "Naomi Shemer", Public Library, Beer Sheva
 
2006 -  "From The Highest Window", Inter-Disciplinary Center "Negev",  Sde Boker
2006 -  "Etchings", Negev Museum, Beer Sheva
2006-   "Happy New Year Mom", Multaka , Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, Beer Sheva
2006-   "Beer Sheva", Cardiologic Division, Soroka Hospital
2006-   "Blue", Public Library, Beer Sheva
2006-   "South Wind", Public Library, Beer Sheva
 
2005-   "Seeing Imagination", Public Library, Beer Sheva
 
2004-   "Light and Color", Public Library, Beer Sheva
2004-   "From the 2004 Catalogue Paintings", Yad Labanim, Beer Sheva
2004-   "Painting Days in Nature", Public Library, Beer Sheva
2004-   "Olive Leaf", Castra Gallery, Haifa2004- "Openings", Castra Gallery, Haifa
2004-   "Drawing Mazal", Beer Tseva Gallery, Beer Sheva
2004-   "From Holocaust to Resurrection", Beer Tseva Gallery, Beer Sheva
2004-   "Aquarelle- Landscapes, Negev, Desert", Beer Tseva Gallery, Beer Sheva
 
2003-  "And You Shall Love your neighbor…"Pais Center, Daliat El Karmel 
2003-  "And You Shall Love your neighbor…" Congress Center, Haifa  
2003-   "From Holocaust to Resurrection", Yad Labanim, Beer Sheva
2003-   "Colors Festival", Public Library, Beer Sheva
 
2002-   "Israel's Painters and Sculptors Association Exhibit." Greenberg's Teachers Center, Beer Sheva
2002-   "Revival", Hall of Culture, Ashkelon
2002-   "Painting from Nature", Public Library, Beer Sheva
2002-   "From the 2002 Catalogue Paintings", Yad Labanim, Beer Sheva
2002-   "Olive Leaf", Daliat El- Karmel
2002-   "Model Drawing", Music House, Omer
2002-   "End of Year Students Exhibit" Sharet House, Givataim
 
2001-   "Etchings" Printing Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim
2001-   "Documenting Landscape" Public Library, Beer Sheva
2001-   "Color in Light", Joe Alon Center Gallery, Kibbutz Lahav
2001-   "Different Way", Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva
 
2000-   "Israel's Painters and Sculptors Association Exhibit" Public Library, Beer Sheva
2000-   "Artists Create in a Forest", Joe Alon Center Gallery, Kibbutz Lahav
 
1998-   Contributed to "Ceramic Biennale", Beer Sheva
 
1997-   "About Paper", Turkish Train Station Gallery, Beer Sheva
1997-   "New Vs. Old", City Hall Gallery, Beer Sheva
1997-   "Drawing, Aquarelle, Print", Public Library, Beer Sheva
 
1996 -   "Ayellet", Gallery Mekomit, Beer Sheva
 
1994-   "Negev", During Art Focus Events, City Hall Gallery, Beer Sheva
 
1993-   "Visions of Unity", Salt Lake City Art Center, Utah
 
1992-   "Painting, Sculpture", Chagalle Artists’ House, Haifa
 
1991-   "Alumni Invitational", Dundalk Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
1991-   "Teachers Exhibit", College of Visual Arts Gallery, Beer Sheva
1991-   "Independence Day", Beer Sheva City Hall Gallery
 
1990-   "Painting, Sculpture" ZOA House, Tel Aviv 
 
1989-   "Independence Day", Negev Museum, Beer Sheva
1989-   "Negev, Desert", City Museum of Art, Dimona Public Library, Beer Sheva
 
1987-    Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Show, Baltimore, Maryland
1987-    Mid Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibit, Baltimore, Maryland
 
1986 -   Mid Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibit, Baltimore, Maryland
1986-  "Students Exhibit" DCC Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
 
1985-  "Students Exhibit" DCC Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
 
Catalogues and Books
 
2010-  "sign-seam" Catalogue/book
 
2009-  "Sweets or Spikes" Catalogue 
2009-  "A Dish of Life" Catalogue
2008 - "LE LIVRE DES ARTISTES ISRAELIENS" Book
2007-  "Rekamot- Embroidery and Calligraphy in Israeli Contemporary Art"
Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva , Catalogue
2007-  Traveling after Artists in Israel / Modan, Book
2007-  "Naomi Shemer", Public Library, Beer Sheva, Catalogue
2006 - "Signs", Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Catalogue
2006- "Art Faces South", Kaye College for Visual Arts, Beer Sheva, Book
2006- "Etchings", Negev Museum, Beer  Sheva, Catalogue
2004-  Israel's Painters and Sculptors Association, Catalogue  
2002- "Olive Leaf", Daliat El- Karmel, Catalogue
2002- "Artists on Their Way" Catalogue
2002-  Israel's Painters and Sculptors Association, Catalogue
2001- "Different way", Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Catalogue
1998-  Ceramic Biennale, Beer Sheva, Catalogue
1998- "Negev" Hilton Hotel, Catalogue
1997- "New Vs. Old", City Hall Gallery, Beer Sheva, Catalogue
1994- "Negev" During 'Art Focus' Events, City Hall Gallery, Beer Sheva, Catalogue
1993- "Visions of Unity" Salt Lake City Gallery, Utah, Catalogue  
1991-"Alumni Invitational" Dundalk Art Gallery Baltimore, Maryland, Catalogue
 
1991- "Teachers Exhibit" College of Visual Arts Gallery, Beer Sheva, Catalogue
1991- "Independence Day" Beer Sheva City Hall Gallery, Catalogue  
1989- "Negev, Desert" Dimona's City Museum of Art, Catalogue
1986- Mid Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland, Catalogue
 
Awards
1991- Guest of Honor, DCC College, Baltimore, Maryland
1986- Potomac Valley Watercolorist Award, U.S.A
 
Organizations
1989-2008 Member of the Israel's Painters and Sculptors Association
1986- Member of Baltimore's Aquarellists Association U.S.A
 
Works on exhibit
2007- Kesselman & Kesselmen Offices, Beer Sheva
2006-2008-Negev Artists' House, Permanent Show
2006- Triptych, Cardiology Division. Soroka Hospital, Beer Sheva
2003- Wall paintings, Giv'ati Military Base, Ktziot
1998- Ceramic wall, Soroka Hospital, Ceramics Biennale
1998- Ceramic wall, Beer Sheva (city), Ceramics Biennale
1990 - A painting at the Presidents' House, Jerusalem
A gift from the Bedouin Culture Museum, Joe Alon Center
 
Daniella Meller
 
Contact Information:
 
Address       6 Tsiklag St.
P.O. Box 1325, Meitar 85025
ISRAEL
Phone:            
Home: +972 (0)8 6517 641
 
Cell: 050 567 7458