Myriam Jawerbaum
Myriam Jawerbaum is an architect and visual artist. Her practice unfolds in the field of contemporary textile art and contextual projects that address the body, otherness, and the social fabric. She has received numerous national awards, among them the Grand Acquisition Prize of the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales.
She works as a cultural and institutional manager:
She has served as a juror for the following prizes:
Grand Acquisition Prize, 105th Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Textile category, 2016.
Top prize
Architect, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Studio of Ahuva Slimowicz.
Studio practice seminars with Fabiana Barreda, Sergio Bazán, and Valeria González.
Philosophy studies with Ricardo Forster and Diana Sperling.
Selected for the JOTA Residency, Brandeis University, United States.
LABA-BA Fellow, New York–Buenos Aires.
Fondo Nacional de las Artes Grant for Group Projects — Frazadas (Blankets) project.
Co-founder of the Entresuturas collective.
Co-founder of the Catarsis collective.
Special 15th Anniversary Award, Salón de Arte Textil, Museo José Hernández.
Grand Acquisition Prize, 105th Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Textile category.
First Prize, Salón de Mediano Formato, Museo José Hernández.
Second Prize, Salón de Pequeño Formato, Museo José Hernández.
Honorable Mention, 5th Bienal del Salón de Arte Sacro, Municipalidad de San Isidro.
Third Prize, 13th Salón de Minitextiles, Centro Argentino de Arte Textil.
Second Prize, Textile Art, Galería Braque, Buenos Aires.
First Prize, 3rd Salón de Arte en Papel.
First Prize, 1st Salón de Arte en Papel.
Reses (Carcasses) + Tierra Arrasada (Scorched Earth), Colectivo Catarsis, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Junín, Argentina.
Las Últimas Cosas (The Last Things), Colectivo Catarsis, Galería Almacén San Nicolás, Buenos Aires Province.
Las Últimas Cosas (The Last Things), Colectivo Catarsis, Galería Una Obra un Artista.
El bien plegar (The Good Fold), Icana, Buenos Aires.
Frazadas (Blankets), Colectivo Catarsis, Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires.
Guardián de mi hermano (My Brother's Keeper), Fundación Atchugarry, Uruguay.
Mural "Bereishit", Templo Lamroth Hakol, Buenos Aires.
Dibujos (Drawings), Galería Marienbad, Buenos Aires.
Errantes del arte (Wanderers of Art), Centro Cultural El Tizón, San Salvador de Jujuy.
Celebración (Celebration), Espacio Peces, Buenos Aires.
Annual Artist's Book Exhibition, Galería Archimboldo.
Camitas (Little Beds), charity exhibition, Fundación Cazadores, Buenos Aires.
Diccionar, encyclopedic dictionaries altered by 12 artists, El Cultural San Martín; Casa de Borges, Adrogué.
Material Thinking, 1st International Contemporary Material Art Exchange, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Group exhibition Budasoff / Jawerbaum / Muslera / Pietra / Romay / Scafidi, Pasaje 865, Buenos Aires.
Descanso de caminantes (Walkers' Rest), Fundación Cazadores, Buenos Aires.
LABA Fellowship — The Other, 14th Street House of Study, Manhattan; Repair the World, Brooklyn, New York.
Exhibition in Rubin Studio Gallery, Miami, USA.
Miniartextil, Como, Italy and France (2013, 2015, 2017).
Salón Violeta Textil, Centro Cultural Recoleta.
International Exhibition of Contemporary Small-Format Art: Identity, Autobiography and Self-Narratives, University of Ulster, Belfast, Ireland.
Group exhibition in tribute to Primo Levi, Instituto Espacio Nuestra Memoria, ESMA, Buenos Aires.
XI International Exhibition of Contemporary Small-Format Art: Identity, Autobiography and Self-Narratives, Galería MX Espai 1010, Barcelona, Spain.
Salón Blanco Textil CAAT, Casa de Victoria Ocampo.
Selected artist for the international project Women of the Book, Israel.
Sabores y Lenguas (Flavors and Tongues), Antoni Miralda, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires.
Corazones Vivos (Living Hearts), benefit exhibition for Fundación Favaloro.
Cow Parade Buenos Aires project.
Convergencias (Convergences) (Testa, Fontana, Hojman, Solsona, Benedit, Frangella, Bedel, Jawerbaum), Galería Víctor Najmías, Buenos Aires.
Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales (2007, 2009, 2010, 2013).
Bienal del Tapiz, Museo Sívori (2008/09, 2012/13, 2025/26).
Salón de Arte Textil, Museo José Hernández (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2025).
Salón Bienal WTA, Bolsa de Comercio.
FERIAL, Feria del Libro, Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), Buenos Aires.
Wynwood Biennial, Miami. Art Palm Beach, Galería La Pecera.
International Textile Biennial WTA, Madrid — Argentina as guest country, Frazadas (Blankets) project.
Bienal Sur, Rosario, Ausentadas (The Absent Ones), Colectivo Entresuturas.
International Textile Biennial WTA, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Asia Contemporary Art Fair, Rubin Studio Gallery, Hong Kong.
Jerusalem Biennale, collective project Women of the Book, Israel.
ArteBA, ArteblogArte space, Buenos Aires.
International Textile Biennial WTA, Buenos Aires.
Expotrastiendas, Museo del Papel space, Buenos Aires.
Her works are held in public and private collections in Argentina, Uruguay, the United States, and Israel.
She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.