Michal Heiman (based in Tel Aviv) is an artist, curator, theoretician and activist, founder of the Photographer Unknown archive (1984), creator of the Michal Heiman Tests (M.H.T.s)1–4, and is known for her vast archive, and the first winner of the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in research on Photography in collaboration with the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Heiman's work is deeply rooted in the political, familial and social arenas, and offers alternative thematic, aesthetic, and theoretical matrices, often woven into the fabric of psychoanalytic theory She is a member of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. In 2015, she founded the organization Women in Academia to protect and advance women’s equality in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and in 2018, she founded the public-benefit corporation An Academy of Her Own, which advocates gender equality in art academic institutions.
We pay our respects to the Gundungurra people who are the traditional custodians of the land. We acknowledge Elders past, present and emerging for their immense spiritual connection to place which was never ceded.
