Tamar Segev

Statement

My work explores connections between familial memory, historical narratives, and contemporary culture, as they are embedded in specific sites and surfaces of architecture. I paint, draw, and stitch as an embodied act of remembrance, an effort to penetrate, inscribe, and process memory. My creative research foregrounds the importance of memory as a discursive, material practice, where active remembering ensures memory’s place in the present.

GlogauAIR Project

During my residency at GlogauAIR, I plan to create painted collages that respond to the architectural surfaces and landscapes I encounter in Germany. In 2020, I began a series of stitched paintings interpreting the site of the former Lodz Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, where my grandmother lived from 1940-44. In Berlin, my goals are to expand this project by visiting official and unofficial sites of remembrance related to World War II and the Holocaust. I am interested in how the memory of WWII is embedded within the built environment of Berlin and other German cities that were devastated by Allied bombing.

Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking

CV Summary

Education

• 2021 MFA in Studio Art and certificate in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
• 2016 BA in Studio Art, Carleton College, Northfield, MN

Selected Exhibition History

• 2024 Leslie Starobin, Tamar Segev, and Ori Segev: Looming in the Shadows of Lodz, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, Appalachian State University, NC (upcoming)
• 2022 Embodied-Remembrance (solo exhibition), McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
• 2022 Inscribing Memory (solo exhibition), Urbana City Hall, Urbana, IL
• 2021 Embodied-Remembrance (solo exhibition), Main Gallery, Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
• 2021 Inscribing Memory (solo exhibition), Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
• 2021 Abstracted Abstraction, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton, MO
• 2021 Studio MFA Thesis Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
• 2020 Exhibition of Artists from USA, YAG/Garage, Online
• 2020 Tick Marks (solo exhibition), Murphy 500, Champaign, IL
• 2020 Prop The Door, The South Studios, Online
• 2019 Cross-section, MFA Exhibition Online, University of Montana, Online
• 2019 Drawing, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
• 2019 Objects who hold, Objects who let go, La Estación Gallery, Urbana, IL
• 2019 Figureworks, Ottawa, Canada
• 2019 Returning MFA Studio Exhibition, Link Gallery, Champaign, IL
• 2019 Light vs. Dark, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

Awards

• 2022 Naomi Anolic Early Career Jewish Artist Award, Anolic Family Awards
• 2018-19 Graduate College Block Grant Fellowship Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
• 2016 Distinction on Senior Comprehensive Project (Thesis), Carleton College, Northfield, MN
• 2016 Ursula Hemingway Jepson Memorial Award in Art, Carleton College, Northfield, MN

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