Roey Victoria Heifetz



Roey Victoria Heifetz, an artist from Jerusalem, lives and works in Berlin. Heifetz has already exhibited in numerous international groups and solo exhibitions around the world, which include: "Sehnsucht / Longing", Beit Hair Museum, Tel Aviv (2010); "The End of History", Gängeviertel Galerie, Hamburg; "The Teacher’s Nap", Künstlethaus Betahanien, Berlin; "Based on Paper", Jiri Svestka Gallery, Berlin (2013); "Dark Times", Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; "Confessions", St. Johannes Evangelist Church, Berlin; and 'Queertopia – it takes a village", Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin. Heifetz had a solo exhibition in The Israel Museum, Jerusalem from November – March 2017. Heifetz also finished a one-year residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and The Fountainhead Residency, Miami.

Heifetz is a grant and scholarship recipient from Lotto Stiftung, Berlin; Mifal Hapais Art Scholarship, Israel; Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, Germany; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany; Artis organization, New York, USA; Artist-Teacher Award, Culture Ministry, Government of Israel; Award of Achievements, M.F.A. studies, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel; Award of Achievements in the 11th Da Dun Art Exhibition of Taichung City, Taiwan; Award of Achievements, B.F.A studies, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel. Additionally, in 2018 Heifetz was awarded the Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Award and was nominated among the finalist for Marianne Werefkin Award for women artists.

Heifetz studied at the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design in Jerusalem (BFA, MFA) and at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, USA.

During her residency at 18th Street Arts Center, Roey Victoria Heifetz will be working on her project The Third Body, which is a video and drawing installation of confessions/conversations with women of the transgender communities in Berlin, Israel, and Los Angeles, as well as her own. The conversations focus on questions regarding the transgender body and the body in general and raise issues such as gender change, anxieties, old age, regret, femininity, motherhood, pain, and fear of yourself and of society. The video reveals layers of body and emotion; it directly presents and exposes to the camera the ways in which we cope with ourselves, our bodies, and our surroundings. This intimate work undermines the familiar, accepted, “pleasant” faces, the common appearance of the transgender community. The video will present interviews and conversations with the participating women, who are her friends and acquaintances from the transgender communities.

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January 4, 2012

Match Point- Gallery Talk

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December 10, 2011

Match Point | Curator: Dina Yakerson

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May 1, 2014

'Confessions'

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March 29, 2016

"START ON PAPER" at ArTi Art Fair

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December 25, 2016

Channel 10 news features Roey Heifetz Exhibition

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January 3, 2017

Haaretz Interview with Roey Heifetz

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January 4, 2017

Erev Rav review of Roey Heifetz exhibition 'Victoria'

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October 15, 2019

Roey Victoria Heifetz will spend two months at Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, New York

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January 1, 2020

"Women Make History" at the Haifa Museum of Art

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September 13, 2020

Roey Victoria Heifetz’s First Solo Show in the U.S

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December 17, 2020

Signals from the Studio | Artist Roey Victoria Heifetz on Layered Confessions by Artis

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May 27, 2021

Roey Victoria Heifetz Exhibiting at The Schwules Museum

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