Biography

Dana Reisin (b. 1979) lives and works in Tel Aviv. She is an autodidact artist with a research master's degree in interdisciplinary art from Tel Aviv University.  She works in a variety of fields: sculpture, painting, sewing, collage, and assemblage. Her work is characterized by formal abundance and colorful richness.

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Her practice relies on the use of mixed and everyday materials: industrial reproductions, consumer goods, plastic bags, fibers, and threads. She challenges the distinction between "high" and "low" and transforms the banal into charged and compassionate emotion. Using worthless objects meant to disappear after use, she seeks to give renewed meaning to what was meant to be forgotten.

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In her work, she deals with the relationship between the individual and society through the body, transience, decay, illness and healing, the temporality of existence, and the meaning of life. The act of creation serves as a space for processing and comfort for her, through giving meaning and existence. She reflects daily suffering and criticism in a colorful, saccharine, and naive envelope. Although her works touch upon fracture and vulnerability, she seeks to offer a comforting and optimistic message of the possibility of repair and healing.

 

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Education

• 2006-2010: MA in the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts, Tel Aviv University

• 2010: Art research courses, MoMA, New York

• 2018: Advanced materials workshop facilitated by Studio Guy Lougashi

• 2021-2022: Watercolor painting facilitated by Sharon Ram-Laor

• 2022: Paper casting, Paper Lab Studio

• 2022: Sewing machine creation facilitated by Guy Lougashi

• 2023: Self-topography in paper lab, Paper Lab Studio

• 2024-2025: Painting facilitated by Neta Harari Navon

• 2025: Textile art creation facilitated by Marik Lechner

 

Group Exhibitions 

• 2024: "Agartalia", BY5 Gallery, Tel Aviv