Nira Chorev

Born in Boston, MA in 1952, Nira Chorev was raised and received her general studies and arts education both in
United States and Israel. From 1972-1974 she attended and graduated from the Art Teachers College in Israel,
receiving a BA degree, and from 1974-1978 she attended the School of the Museum of Fine Art (SMFA), in Boston,
MA receiving multiple degrees -Diploma (BFA) and Fifth-Year Post-Graduate certificate. While in the Fifth-Year
Post-Graduate studies program she was an assistant to both printing and drawing classes and won a traveling
scholarship which she used to revive her photographic work and merge it with the work she was doing in silk
screen printing class. Her early work on large canvases was in acrylic, looking at landscapes from a bird’s-eye view,
seeing the contrasting forms in color, and focusing on the positive and negative shapes in space. After several
decades in Israel, she returned to the United States in 2008 to attend the Continuing Education Program and
Workshops at the School of the Museum of Fine Art (SMFA). Currently she is living in the Boston area and working
in mixed media, using photos to capture moments as memories that trigger the landscapes that are created from
them. The works express the continuous connections between the artist and nature; the positive and negative
shapes in space; and the reminder of how things were. In Europe her artwork has been exhibited at The Royal
School of Art in London, the Esrat Gallery in Barcelona, the Madrid Exhibition Center, Spain, and the Glicksman
Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. Public and Gallery Exhibitions of her artwork in the United States include Emerging –
Boston City Hall Gallery, Boston, MA; Mayim Hayyim Gallery, Newton, MA – In Memory of Yitzhak Rabin; NAVE
Gallery, Somerville, MA; Art Takes Times Square, NYC; the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; Art Expo, USA, NY;
Boston’s Resnikoff Gallery and the SMFA Grossman Gallery; The Studio Gallery, Irvine, CA.; Post Office Gallery,
Inc., North Truro, MA.