Miriam Cabessa lives and works in Tel Aviv and New York, winner of the Israeli Ministry of Culture's Lifetime Achievement Award for 2022. In 1997 Cabessa represented Israel at the Venice Biennale.

She is the first winner of the Gottesdiener Award and presented a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum. She exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and around the world. Cabessa’s works are included in the collections of the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, Haifa Museum, the British Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts - Washington, the University Museum in Washington, the National Museum of Texas and many other collections.

In 2017, after an international career and twenty years of extensive and successful activity in New York, Cabessa opened a studio in Israel and now she works and creates in Tel Aviv as well. The artistic breakthrough of the painter Miriam Cabessa began with the enigma of painting that she brought to the discourse of Israeli art. Cabessa developed a unique pictorial language, a technique of "feminine action painting" according to the curator Sarah Breitberg-Smel.

It is the interlaying fabric that interests Miriam and this is the space in which she explores, moves, devotes herself, defies, seduces, and tells us a story. A story about closeness and distance, alone and together, loneliness and connection, like the meeting of color on a surface, like a life-long meeting of two lovers in a bar, like infinity meeting the limits. In the story of the relationship that Miriam tells, the painting materials, color and surface, reveal the dialogue between probing the dark and knowing.

A painting has nothing but to be painted, to be realized in the act of creation, a story has nothing but to be revealed. The body is the vessel that carries her (us) to the sublime and the image is the one that brings us back to the body. Her meeting with the material creates a movement that is fixed on the surface and comes out again to the viewer at the moment of looking. Here is another relationship created. Miriam's works take place at the meeting of the volcanic eruption of emotion with her absolute control over the material.

Her masterful skill with the tools of painting, her body or her work tools (never with brushes) in front of the wild release of her passions and desires are, also, relationships that she allows us to be present to, like voyeurs, and discover a little about us through them.