Maureen Rosen was born in South Africa, and immigrated to Israel in 1968. She lives and works in Haifa. She is married, and the mother of three.


STUDIES

Maureen studied at Rhodes University in South Africa, and at Haifa University. She has participated in many workshops in Israel and abroad. For many years Maureen has been teaching painting and drawing, and is an active member of the Israel Artists’ and Sculptors’ Association.


HER WORK

Maureen works in oils, acrylics, water-colour and mixed media. The drawing line always features in her work, and the human figure is her main theme - people in their natural surroundings, and figures caught in spatial moments of time - and in all, her love of the human scene is evident.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1984 - Beit Abba Hushi Gallery, Haifa
1985 - Dallas Gallery, U.S.A.
1996 - Beit Chagall Haifa
1998 - Artist’s house, Haifa
1999 - Hod Hacarmel Gallery, Haifa
2001 - Tzavta Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002 - Haifa municipality
2003 - Castra Gallery Haifa
2005 - Gerard Behar, Jerusalem
2007 - Haifa Theatre Gallery
2008 - Beit Assia Gallery, Tel Aviv


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1982 - Haifa University
1983 - Trianalle graphics exhibition, Haifa Museum
1983 - Etching exhibition, Beit Abba Hushi
1984-2003 - Annual Exhibitions, Artist’s house, Haifa
1986 - Yad le’Banim Museum, Herzlia
1998 - Miniature exhibition, Barcelona
1999 - Haifa Municipality
2001 - Dom Hodoznika artis’s house, Moscow
2001 - Ethnographical museum, St.Petersburg.
2001 - Central gallery Novo Sibirsk
2002 - Bible museum , Tel Aviv
2002 - Hecht gallery, Haifa
2003 - Bad Hofgastein, Saltzburg, Austria


AWARDS

Maureen Rosen was the recipient of the 2002 Herman Struck award for painting