Born in Israel (1955), currently residing in Miami, Florida.

2017 curated “Sun Stand Still” by Gal Weinstein for the Israeli Pavilion in the 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

2005-2010 Chief Curator at the Haifa Museum of Art

studies

1990 MA in Art History, Tel Aviv University
1981 School of Archives, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1975-1979 BA in Art History, Tel Aviv University

professional experience

Since 2010 Katz-Freiman is an independent curator based in Miami. Between 2005-2010 she was the Chief Curator of the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel. She started her curatorial practice in 1992 and over the years she has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions in prominent museums in Israel and the US. From 2008-2010 she was teaching Feminism and Contemporary Art at the Department of Art History at the Tel Aviv University and curatorial studies at the International Curatorial Program of the Kalisher School of Art and Technology in Tel Aviv. In addition to essays for catalogues and books published in conjunction with the exhibitions she has curated, Katz-Freiman has written numerous articles, essays, and reviews addressing various issues in contemporary art. In 2012 she curated two major exhibitions: Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India for the new wing of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and UNNATURAL for the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach. In 2017 she curated “Sun Stand Still” by Gal Weinstein for the Israeli Pavilion in the 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. She is a board member of AIRIE and a member of IKT and AICA/USA, the International Association of Art Critics. She is also serving as a lector for EPOS, the International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 

 

exhibitions

 

2017

 

2015

Gal Weinstein, Sun Stand Still, The Israeli pavilion, la Biennale di Venezia

Dina Shenhav, D.O.A, The Art Center (Little River Edition), Miami

2014

Nevet Yitzhak: WarCraft, The Screening Room (TSR), Wynwood Art District, Miami

 

Antonia Wright: You Make Me Sick: I Love You, Spinello Projects, Miami (curatorial advisor)

 

AutoBody: a traveling platform for international women artists working in video, performance, and new media (advisory curatorial committee)

2013 Aziz + Cucher: Time of the Empress (Septet)The Screening Room (TSR), Wynwood Art District, Miami
 2012

UNNATURAL, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach 

 

Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India (co-curated with Rotem Ruff), Tel Aviv Museum of Art

2011 Nivi Alroy: Food WebFresh Paint 3, Tel Aviv
2010 Shelf Life (co-curated with Rotem Ruff), Haifa Museum of Art
2009

Aesthetics of Violence – AES+FHaifa Museum of Art

  Aesthetics of Violence – Biljana Ðurdevic: Paintings

Haifa Museum of Art

 

Aesthetics of Violence – Norbert Bisky: Paintings, Haifa Museum of Art

 

Power Games: Contemporary Art from Poland, Haifa Museum of Art

 

Wild Exaggeration: The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art

2008 Prizes in Art and Design from the Ministry of Science, 
  Culture and Sport, 2007 (co-curated with Tal Yahas), Haifa Museum of Art
2007

Kader Attia: Who Cares?, Haifa Museum of Art

 

BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art (trilogy, part III)

2006

Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art (trilogy, part I)

 

Fatamorgana: Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art (trilogy, part II)

2005 Nir Hod: Forever, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2004 Tal Amitai: (temporary) Happiness, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
 

Love is in the Air – Time for Love: Images of Romantic 

 

Love in Contemporary Israeli Art, Time for Art: Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv

2003

OverCraft: Obsession, Decoration and Biting Beauty, The Art Gallery, Haifa University, Haifa, Artists House, Tel Aviv

 

Time Capsule: Contemporary Art and Archaeology, Art in General, New York City

 

Robert Melee: Bath Time Mommy, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel

2002 Gal Weinstein: The Valley of Jezreel, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
 

Aziz + Cucher: Passage, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel

 

Nicola Costantino: Boutique, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel

 

Gil Shachar: Hand Made, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel

 

LandEscapes: A Multi-sites Project of Contemporary Israeli Art (co-curated with Cheryl Harper), Drexel University; Moore College of Art; The Gershman Y, Philadelphia 

2000 Havana Nagila: Cuba-Israel Dialogue, Chelouche Gallery, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Julie M. Gallery, and the Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios 
  Mount Miami: American Artists in Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios
1999 Phantoms: Tsibi Geva and Jose Bedia, ArtFocus, International Biennial in Jerusalem, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem
  Currently: Artfocus, Summer 1999 (co-curated with Goran Tomcic), South Florida Art Center, 800 Gallery, South Beach 
  Tsibi Geva: A Site-Specific Project, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba
  Eugenia Vargas: The Abject Body, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami
1998 Nir Hod: Forever Young, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami
1996-1998 Desert Cliché: Israel Now – Local Images (co-curated with Amy Cappellazzo), Arad Museum, Israel (September 1996) Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel (November 1996); Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida (April 1997); Grey Art Gallery & Study Center of New York University (November 1997); Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta (May 1998); Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco (September 1998)
1995 Still(A)LIVE: Regina Frank, Silvia Gruner, Laura Tan, Consuelo Castaneda – Four Interactions with the Past, Black Box, Ground Level Exhibition Space, South Beach, Miami, Florida
1995 Hila Lulu Lin: A Cow, A Turtle and a Goldfish, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
1994 Meta-Sex94: Identity, Body and Sexuality, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
1993 Antipathos: Black Humor, Irony and Cynicism in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1992 Postscipts: “End” Representations in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University

 

PUBLICATIONS

essays for catalogues

2017 “Serial Robbery in the Playground of Art History”, a catalogue essay on the series Stranger in Paradise by Allison Zuckerman, the Rubell Family Collection (RFC), Miami
  Stopping Time, Molding Mold, A catalogue essay for Gal Weinstein: Sun Stand Still, Israeli Pavilion, la Biennale di Venezia
2016 Frances Goodman: Nails her Colors to the Mast, A catalogue essay for “Frances Goodman: Rapaciously Yours”, Richard Taittinger Gallery, NYC
  Neither Tree nor Ashes: Conversation with Shanthamani, a conversation with Shantamani M. for Neither Tree nor Ashes, Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery, Paris
2015

On the Miracle of Representation: Conversation with Oren Eliav, a conversation for “Advent”, Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery, Paris

No Man’s Land – A Comfort Zone: Notes about a Title, an essay for No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection

Contextualizing Hunting: on Dina Shenhav: D.O.A., an essay for Dina Shenhav: D.O.A., Small Format, Art Center, Miami

 

 

2014

From Skins to Landscape: on Agustina Woodgate’s Rug Collection, an essay for Agustina Woodgate: Rugs, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood

Like a Thread in a Storm, an essay for Tal Amitai-Lavi: Light Construction, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art

2012 From Body Politics to Conflict Politics: Aziz + Cucher Come Out of the (Biography) Closet, an essay for Aziz + Cucher: Some People, The Indianapolis Museum of Art
  Critical Mass: Beyond Aesthetics (written with co-curator Rotem Ruff), an essay for Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  Nature Has No Copyright, an essay for UNNATURAL, Bass Museum of Art
2011 Nivi Alroy: System Collapse, text for Nivi Alroy: Food Web, Recipient of the Most Promising Artist Award at Fresh Paint 3
2010 Collecting is a Form of Uprooting – An Encounter Between Self and Object, an essay for Shelf Life (co-curated with Rotem Ruff), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2009

Aesthetics of Violence: AES+F Group, Biljana Ðurdevic and Norbert Bisky, an essay for the brochure of three solo shows, Haifa Museum of Art 

  Power Games: Contemporary Art from Poland, an essay for Power Games, Haifa Museum of Art
 

Exaggeration is Twice as Real, an essay for Wild Exaggeration: The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art 

2007

Kader Attia: Who Cares?, an essay for a solo project by Kader Attia, Haifa Museum of Art

  Craftsmen in the Factory of Images, an essay for BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art
 

On the Noise in the Heart: A Chronicle of an Acquaintance with Hila Lulu Lin, an artist book essay for Hila Lulu Lin: She, Ein Harod Museum of Art 

2006

The Road to Happiness: On Cultural Conflict, Desire, and Illusion in the Work of Kader Attia, an essay for Kader Attia’s monography, Musee d’art contemporain, Lyon

  The Industry of Emotions / Or: I Feel, Therefore I Am, an essay for Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art
  Fatamorgana: The Magic Lantern of Consciousness, an essay for Fatamorgana: Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art
 

Dancing with Barbed Wire, an essay on Sigalit Landau for Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami

2005

Nir Hod: An Acrobat of Emotion in The Circus of Illusions, an essay for Nir Hod: Forever, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

 

Kader Attia: Ports of Paradise for Sale: On Fantasies and Brand Names in the Era of Globalization (French), an essay for Kader Attia, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

2004

Tal Amitai: Requiem for a Fantasy of Happiness, an essay for Tal Amitai: (temporary) Happiness, Janco Dada Museum and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

 

Love is in the Air: Quick Introduction to Romantic Love, an essay for Love is in the Air, Time for Art: Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv

2003

OverCraft: The God of Small Details, an essay for OverCraft, The Art Gallery, Haifa University and Artists House, Tel Aviv

  Time Capsule: Archaeology in Contemporary Art, an essay for Time Capsule, Art in General, New York
  Robert Melee: Mommy Dearest, an essay on Robert Melee’s work, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
 

Meirav Heiman: Family Dyes, an essay on Meirav Heiman’s video installation, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

2002 Gal Weinstein: The Valley of Jezreel, in: Chilufim: A Transfer Exchange Project of Artists and Art, 2002/2003, Israel – North Reine-Westphalia, pp. 142, 149
  Aziz + Cucher: Passage, a brochure essay for Aziz + Cucher, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art 
  A Woman Wearing These Clothes Remains Practically Naked, in Nicola Costantino: Boutique, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art 
  What’s Soft, Translucent, Moist and Slimy? On Mediations of Erotic Nature in Hugit Rubinstein’s Work, in Hagit Rubinstein: Soft World, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv 
  On Paradoxes of Representation, Illusion and Vanity, in: Gil Schachar: Hand Made, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
  LandEscapes: Mysteries of the Holy Land, in LandEscapes, Drexel University; Moore College of Art; The Gershman Y, Philadelphia
2001 Close to Home, a catalogue essay for Lesli Rubin Kunda: Daily Interactions, Tel Aviv
  Burning Concerns: Delving into the Heart of the Conflict in Tsibi Geva – Rage, Achshav.now contemporary art Gallery, Berlin (April)
2000 Mount Miami: American Artists in Tel Aviv, a catalogue essay for Mount Miami, Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios
1998-1999 Between Nature and Culture: Poetics of Materials and Objects – New Work of Florencio Gelabert, a catalogue essay for a traveling solo exhibition at Ambrosino Gallery, April 1998, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama, August-September 1998, Museo Jacobo Borges, Venezuela, November 1998- January 1999, Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, Costa Rica, February-March 1999
1999

Eugenia Vargas – The Abject Body: Notes on Abjection and Prejudice, a catalogue essay for Eugenia Vargas, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami

 

Phantoms: Tsibi Geva and Jose bedia – Notes on an Inter-Cultural Encounter, a catalogue essay for Phantoms, ArtFocus 3, Jerusalem

1998 Nir Hod: The Legend of the Ultimate Narcissist, a catalogue essay for Nir Hod, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami 
  Aziz + Cucher: Beyond the Epidermic Layer, a catalogue essay for Aziz + Cucher, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami 
1996 A Matter of Distance, a catalogue essay for Desert Cliché: Israel Now – Local Images 
  I and Thou: Processes of Abandonment and Anorexic Purification in Cesar Trasobares’ New Sculptures, in MAP (Miami Art Paper) 
  An American in the Inferno: Robert Rauschenberg and the Series of Illustrations to Dante, in Rauschenberg, Dante, Botticelli, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University 
1995 Still(A)LIVE: Regina Frank, Silvia Gruner, Laura Tan, Consuelo Castaneda – Four Interactions with the Past, text for Still(A)Live, Ground Level, South Beach, Miami, Florida 
  Dorit Ya’acoby: To Live with Knives in the Gut at the Gates of Mercy, a catalogue essay for Dorit Ya’acoby, Gallery of the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan (November 1995); Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan (January – February 1996)
  Hila Lulu Lin: A Cow, A Turtle and a Goldfish, text for Hila Lulu Lin, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida 
1994 Meta-Sex 94: Identity, Body and Sexuality, a catalogue essay for Meta-Sex 94, Museum of Art, Ein Harod 
1993 Antipathos: Black Humor, Irony and Cynicism in Contemporary Israeli Art, a catalogue essay for Antipathos, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 
  A Call to Order: Maya Cohen Levy’s Painting – a Proposal for Putting the World Aright, in Maya Cohen Levy, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 
1992 “Hastily the World Hastens to Pass Away…”, a catalogue essay for Postscripts: “End”- Representations in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University 
  Michal Shamir: The More Transparent, the Greater the Depth, a catalogue essay for Michal Shamir, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan; published also in: Studio Art Magazine: 30
   

essays for anthologies

2010 Master of Concealments: On the Traps of Appropriations in Jasper Johns’ Work in: The Beauty of Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Studies in Honour of Mordechai Omer, Assaph 2010, Studies in Art History, Vols. 13-14, Tel Aviv University, pp. 335-351
  Craftsmen in the Factory of Images, from BoysCraft in: The Craft Reader (edited by Glenn Adamson), Berg, Oxford, New York, 2010 pp. 596-605
2003 “Don’t Touch My Holocaust”: Israeli Artists Challenging the Holocaust Taboo, a paper for the International conference: Representing the Holocaust: Practices, Products, Projections, Berman Center of Jewish Studies, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania in: Transforming Memory: Representation, Art, and the Holocaust, New Perspectives on Jewish Studies, New York University Press
  Bad Girls: The Israeli Version – Contemporary Women Artists in Israel, in:Jewish Feminism in Israel: Some Contemporary Perspectives (edited by Kaplana Misra and Malanie Rich), University Press of New Engalnd

articles for art magazines

2002 Miri Segal: Wheels of Fortune, a profile for “Ten Artists to Watch”, ARTnews, March 2002, p.101
2001 An essay on the anti-porno debate as reflected in the work of Sue Williams, Gada Amer, Zoe Leonard, Lisa Yuskavage and Sara Lucas, Musa Art Quarterly: 6, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, October 2001 [Hebrew]
  IN Havana: Report on the Complexities of Art in Cuba, Art Papers, May 2001
  Sweet Saccharin and the Shadow of Death: On the Work of Pierre & Gilles, Musa Art Quarterly: 4, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, April 2001 [Hebrew]
  On Doron Sabag Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum, Studio Art Magazine: 122, March-April 2001 [Hebrew]
1998 Cuban Rashomon: A Journey into the Art and Politics of Havana, Studio Art Magazine: 95, August 1998 [Hebrew]
  New Trends in Contemporary Art, a survey for Art Papers, May-June 1998, p. 14
  Genevieve Cadieux: Vague/Wave: The Magic of Body Language, in Converge I, Miami Art Museum Annual New Works Book, 1998, pp. 47-53
1997 Going to the Dogs: Man (Dressed as Dog) Bites an Art Critic! Notes from the Front-line of the Struggle for Attention, Art Papers, November 1997
1993 The Ridiculous and the Horrible: The Antipathos exhibition at the Israel Museum, Studio Art Magazine: 45, July-August 1993 (Hebrew)
  Minimal Concept: The ‘Poor’ Seventies of Benni Efrat, Studio Art Magazine: 40, January 1993 [Hebrew]
1992 White Curls: On the Child Images in the works of Nir Hod, Mishkafaim, The Israel Museum, November 1992 [Hebrew]
  Andy Warhol: The Death of the Glamor/ The Glamour of Death, Studio Art Magazine: 36, September 1992 [Hebrew]
1991 Johns and the Mystery of the Four Seasons, Studio Art Magazine: 25, September 1991 [Hebrew]
1982 1930-1936: The Founding of the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv Museum Annual Review: 1, April 1982

reviews

2013 Review of “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” at the New Museum, for Erev Rav online art magazine [Hebrew]

2002

 

 

Tal Amitai: A is Ohel, B is Beit, Studio Art Magazine: 131, February – March 2002, p. 67 [Hebrew]

2000

Ole: Impressions from the Havana Biennale, Ha’aretz Supplement, 15.12.2000 
1998 Scents and Sensibilitynotes on Ann Hamilton’s site-specific installation mantle, MAM, in: “How to Look at Art”, ARTnews, December 1998, pp. 132-133
  Ann Hamilton at the Miami Art Museum, a review on Ann Hamiltonmantle, MAM, Art Papers, September 1998
  Zadok Ben-David and Juan Carlos Garcia-Lavin, an essay for two site specific installations, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Art Papers, May-June 1998, p. 36
  David Rohn, a review on David Rohn, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA),  Art Papers, May-June 1998, p. 37
  Annette Messager, a review on Annette Messager, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA), Art Papers, March-April 1998, p. 38
  Aziz + Cucher at Jack Shainman Gallery, Studio Art Magazine: 90, February 1998, pp. 92-93
1997

Going to the Dogs: Man (Dressed as Dog) Bites an Art Critic! Notes from the Front-line of the Struggle for Attention, Spring 1997, Art Papers, November-December 1997, pp. 78-80

 

Janine Antoni: Swoon at Capp Street Project, San Francisco, Studio Art Magazine: 88, December 1997, pp. 82-83

  Carol Sun: Archetypes and Rituals at Anti-American Art Gallery Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Art Papers, July-August 1997, p. 39
1996 The Israeli Artfocus in North Carolina, Studio Art Magazine: 77, November- December 1996, p. 7 [Hebrew]
  The New is Wonderful! on: Designing Modernity: The Art of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945, The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, Haaretz, Weekend Supplement, 15 March 1996
  Duchamp’s Leg: 60 Minutes on Marcel Duchamp and His Influence on 20th Century Art, Studio Art Magazine: 69, February 1996 [Hebrew]
  PerForms: Janine Antoni, Charles Ray, Jana Sterbak at ICA, Philadelphia,Studio Art Magazine: 68, January 1996 [Hebrew]
1995 Gary Hill at the Guggenheim Soho, Studio Art Magazine: 64, August-September 1995, pp. 81-82 [Hebrew]
  Sean Landers at Andrea Rosen Gallery, Studio Art Magazine: 64 , August-September 1995, pp. 81-82 [Hebrew]
  Forces of Change: Women-Artists in the Arab World, Studio Art Magazine: 62, May 1995, pp. 72-73 [Hebrew]
  Ann Hamilton’s Seam: a video installation (MOMA), Studio Art Magazine: 60, February 1995, pp. 69-71 [Hebrew]
  Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan, Studio Art Magazine: 59, December 1994 – January 1995 [Hebrew]
  Let the Artists Live at Exit Art Gallery, Studio Art Magazine: 59, December 1994 – January 1995, pp. 61-62 [Hebrew]
1993 Notes on the Empty Gaze at Limbus Art Gallery, Studio Art Magazine: 42, March-April 1993 [Hebrew]

panels, lectures, courses

2015 60 MINUTES on Selected (feminist-craft-oriented) Projects, Visiting Curator Lecture Series, FIU Department of Art and Art History
 2014  60 MINUTES on Selected (feminist-craft-oriented) Projects, guest lecture for MAWA, Winnipeg, Canada
2008-2010

Bad Girls, a course on Feminism and Contemporary Art, The Tel Aviv University

Curatorial Studies, the International Curatorial Studies Program of Kalisher Art School, Tel Aviv

2000 Don’t Touch My Holocaust: Israeli Artists Challenging the Holocaust Taboo, paper and lecture for the International conference: Representing the Holocaust: Practices, Products, Projections, Center of Jewish Studies, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
1999 Desert Cliché: Israel Now – Local Images, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
  Contemporary Israeli Art, Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership, Denver, Colorado
  Bad Girls: The Israeli Version, Contemporary Women Artists in Israel, in conjunction with the symposium “A Global View of Women’s Art”, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1998 Desert Cliché: Presentation of Contemporary Israeli Art, in Third World Countries’ Conference, Wifredo Lam Museum, Havana, Cuba
MA thesis
September 1990 Quotation in American Pop Art Painting as a Post-Modernist Element Reflecting Historicist Relation to Western Cultural Tradition, Thesis submitted for MA degree (supervised by Prof. Mordechai Omer)