Miriam Mörsel Nathan is an American abstract visual artist. She works only on paper. Her drawings, prints and paintings explore the narratives of ambiguity, absence and vulnerability. She is also a published poet.
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Early life and education
Mörsel Nathan was born in 1947 in the Dominican Republic to Czech parents. In the late 1940s they immigrated to Richmond, Virginia, where Mörsel Nathan spent her childhood. She received a Bachelor of Arts (1969) and a Master of Arts (1971) from The George Washington University. She attended the Corcoran College of Art & Design;New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture; and Fund ación CIEC, Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea, Betanzos, La Coruña, Spain.
Career
Mörsel Nathan has had multiple solo exhibitions including I First Saw the World Through a Mosquito Net… at the BBLA Gallery, Bohemian National Hall, in New York City (2014) and Memory of a time I did not know… at the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery in Washington, D.C. (2010). She has been part of numerous group shows in galleries including Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore, Maryland (2014) and Tychman Shapiro Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2013).
Her commissioned work was exhibited for the concert performance of the opera Lost Childhood at the Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland (2013).
Mörsel Nathan’s work can be found in private collections in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands.
Co-founder of The Washington Jewish Film Festival with Aviva Kempner, Mörsel Nathan was director of the Festival for ten years. Her poetry and essays have appeared in such publications as Gargoyle, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Sojourner: The Women’s Forum; Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture and she has read her work at The Knitting Factory, The Jewish Museum, NY, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, among other venues.
Fellowships, Awards and Commissions
Personal life
Mörsel Nathan lives with her husband in the Washington Metro Area.