Tal Waldman is a multidisciplinary artist, recipient of the Grand Drawing Prize from the Taylor Foundation (2023) and the Excellence Award from the American University of Paris and Modern Art Energy Japan at the Sacred Art Festival of Compiègne (2021). She was also awarded the Grand Prize for Environmental Art at the Autumn Salon (2016) and won the City of Paris competition in 2009 for her contemporary perspectives on jacquard tapestry. Her sculptures and drawings are represented in both public and private collections, including the Aube Department. Tal has held several solo exhibitions, such as The Path of Experimentation at the City of Stained Glass in Troyes (2023) and Embroidered Memories at the La Piscine Museum in Roubaix (2016). Her presence in international fairs and galleries further reflects her commitment to engaging the public through art. Her recent publications, including Visualizing the Invisible (2022), The Path of Experimentation (2023), and Drawing Inward (2024), highlight her ongoing artistic research. Her work has been widely featured in media outlets such as RFI, Le Monde, Elle Decoration, Artension, and Argument. Rooted in the philosophy of Deep Ecology, Tal’s artistic exploration revolves around the interconnections between nature, consciousness, and society. Through diverse mediums, she illuminates spiritual, social, and ecological questions, addressing themes such as perception, mindfulness, interdependence, womanhood, immigrant collective memory, circular economy, and sustainable production.
“This artist is constantly searching for new ways to express our behavior and responses to life. Consciousness, chance, and the subconscious are ever-present in her work. Tal Waldman studied painting, drawing, and architecture, which gives her creations a structured foundation, where figuration often borders abstraction. Her travels through Africa, Asia, and Europe have shaped a creative process marked by balance between order and disorder. Often conceived as series, her compositions do not narrate stories but instead explore an intimate perception of the world, like meditations. They attempt to reveal the invisible and the link between mind and body, combining reflection with dreamlike elements. Colors and light play a central role, oscillating between chance and control, while interwoven shapes form elegant, colorful mosaics. Her recent large-scale drawings invite multiple interpretations, from organic forms to cosmic space. At the core of her practice lies the dialogue between body, mind, and art—a foundation for a timeless, innovative body of work.”
translation from – Nicole Lamothe, Art Critic, Taylor Foundation Grand Prix Aquarelle Catalog, 2023PRESS AND INTERVIEWS
“…Tal Waldman is a polymorphic artist: architect, designer, and artist, whose work explores the search for identity—geographical identity, feminine identity, human identity. Her research unfolds across multiple media and techniques; through encounters and curiosities, she has been led to take an interest in stained glass……Tal belongs to those who want to touch and test materials, push them to their limits, those who play with techniques, crossing physical, mental, and geographical boundaries: those who experiment.” _ Catalogue of the exhibition La Voie d’Expérimentation, Anne Claire Garbe, Directrice of the Museum, Troyes (2023)
“…Tal Waldman is resolutely multidisciplinary. In her work, textile art, glass art, paper, porcelain, stained glass, painting, and drawing intermingle, enrich one another, respond to one another, and complement each other. Her triple role as architect, artist, and designer allows for this fluidity. Her capacity for collaboration also contributes, as collective work is fully part of her approach. Whether with the maisons she collaborates with for furnishings, the glass artisans of Troyes, the women of the island of Paros in Greece, or through the duo she formed with an American artist during the lockdown, Tal Waldman considers porosity and the exchange of inspiration as a fundamental driving force….Tal Waldman’s personal and family history constantly leads her to question the notion of identity and memory legacy. Born in Tel Aviv to a family of German origin, the notions of transmission, boundaries, and cultural inheritance are highly complex and charged. The artist has chosen to transcend this heavy heritage by sublimating it through deep ecology, a pursuit of sensitive coherence through the balance of body and mind, and a spiritual quest free from religious constraints. This is not denial, but self-realization, equilibrium, and the transcendence of the ego. This quest is vividly expressed in her weaving work, as well as in her research into landscapes, cartography, and textile connections. Everything in her practice is a “path of experimentation”…..Tal Waldman is a multi-award-winning artist who constantly pushes the boundaries of her art and blends her talents. The central focus is spiritual inspiration—a meditative presence, aware of being in the world. The gestures of creation become fragmented narratives, memory of the body, the place, the journey, forming an intimate, ritual story, traces that are sensitive and alive. The spiritual quest is deeply anchored in the body: this embodiment is the seat of our otherness and our connection to all living beings. Rooted in breath, the TRACES series immerses itself in red, that corporeality that links us to reality, to others, to oneself, and to a profoundly inhabited inner life…” _ Exhibition article Mont, Temples et Traces, Cécile Dufay, Galerie Cécile Dufay (2025)
“Tal Waldman, a poetic storyteller, carries us through the fascinating labyrinths of her artistic universe, where the subconscious and dreams intertwine, captivating our senses and awakening our minds. Each new artistic experience opens up a range of possibilities and enriches her stages of creativity. Intuitive language dominates her artistic practice, where chance plays a crucial role. A meditative approach is reflected in her works, where each element is carefully chosen for its symbolic meaning and evocative potential. Tal Waldman’s works appear as open doors to infinity, inviting the viewer to explore the hidden depths of the universe and of our inner being, for a unique emotional experience.” _ Preface to Tal Waldman’s work, Drawing Inward, Yasmine Azzi-Kohlhepp, Director of Gallery AYN and art/culture journalist (2024)
“In the rich artistic heritage of the Middle East, drawings have particular importance, capturing life’s patterns through emblematic motifs. For Tal Waldman, the challenge and beauty of her work lie in her ability to transcend this centuries-old tradition, draw inspiration from its characteristic elements, while tracing her own creative path.” _ Professor Yehuda Safran, art and architecture critic, Columbia University NY (2024)
“‘I admire those who seek and are not afraid to change.’ Anyone who knows her finds it hard to believe Tal Waldman holds such a position. This artist, who alternates media for her creations—from fabric to glass—is constantly seeking to highlight themes dear to her. Yet she recognizes the risk others take in experimentation, without even considering the risk driving her own pursuit. Normal. In fact, when you meet her, Tal radiates warm affection, yet beyond empathy, the firmness of her convictions inhabits the artist. No change on the horizon for her, but an evolving experimental path with no need for immediate results or precise goals. This approach is evident in her first temporary exhibition at the Cité du Vitrail in Troyes….” _ Robert Sender, journalist, Actualité Juive (2023)
“…. Tal showcases her visually stunning series, Directed Randomness (Hasard Dirigé), which explores the relationship between control and chaos, whereby transformation is an integral element of her work. In the face of worldwide dread and anxiety for the future, the beauty, sophistication and elegance of her eudemonic designs are a much-needed panacea for us all…” _ The Culturium (3 May 2020) – Paula Marvelly, writer and editor, ‘Tal Waldman Directed Randomness – Such stuff as dreams are made on’ https://www.theculturium.com/tal-waldman-directed-randomness/
“Tal Waldman focuses on the interaction of all the elements of a work to question the visitor’s emotional intimacy. Resulting from true exploratory work, she seeks the balance between disorder and order. The visitor discovers spontaneous gestures that evoke a feeling of freedom. The aesthetic language of her drawings is similar to that of a poem: each line creates a harmonious dialogue with the viewer, who becomes a reader of imaginary words. Charged with symbolism, an ode to joy… colors spread with texture, brightness, and intensity, producing a vibrating effect.” _ mme Éléonore Blanc, Auctioneer, art historian, and journalist, L’Officiel des Galeries et Musées (2021)
“…She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in France and internationally and has been shaped by several residencies in Israel, Germany, Greece, and India. Versatile, she is passionate about the transversality of plastic arts and crafts, which she invites whenever possible to give birth to entirely unique hybrid works. For the exhibition ‘It will be on the wire, the link and nomadic beings,’ Tal Waldman – Talva D. will present ‘Embroidered Memories,’ a set of 3D works, visual representations of the stages of migration. Charged with a strong personal history, the artist evokes with poetry the roots, questions of identity, and collective memory, where glass, embroidery, wood, and reclaimed objects create a harmony rich in stories.”
Artistik Rezo (7 March 2019) – by the writer Vanessa Humphires https://www.artistikrezo.com/agenda/ce-sera-sur-le-fil-le-lien-et-les-etres-nomades-4-artistes-exposent-a-la-d-galerie.html“..“Embroidered memories is above all a human, cultural and social project. Its purpose is linked to the world of design, art, decorative arts; it talks about improvement, collective memory, how we position ourselves in relation to the above, but also about tolerance, patience and acceptance of difference. At the heart of this unprecedented creative adventure – articulated around an experimental model of collaborative production – lies the figure of the migrant, or rather the situations and states associated with it, of which the potential is highlighted, not the potential weakness, but all the wealth. The themes of travel, memories, economic difficulties, maintaining integrity in a context of adaptation, dissimilarities between homeland and adopted land are thus tackled in turn…” Arts Hebdo Medias (20 November 2015) – mme Samantha Deman, journalist ‘Tal Waldman in Roubaix – The ways of materials’
https://www.artshebdomedias.com/article/201115-tal-waldman-roubaix-les-voies-de-la-matiere/“Tal Waldman is a transdisciplinary artist living and working in Paris, who explores the porosity between crafts and contemporary practices. She is of Israeli-German origin, marked by the links that are woven between cultures, and collective memories. Through drawing, she explores the relationship between chaos and control, particularly in her series Directed Randomness, while with embroidery and upcycling, she develops a collaborative work on collective memory entitled Embroidered Memories. Transformation is a central element of her protean work. Tal Waldman develops contemporary work that often reveals duality. This is the case, for example, in her 3D stained glass series, where the artist transforms the iconic Virgin and Child, woman and mother, integrating it into innovative research on 3D stained glass.”
Gallery D, Paris (2018)
“That is beautiful which springs from inner need, which springs from the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
“For me, there is no gap between my painting and my so-called decorative work. I never considered the ‘minor arts’ as artistically limiting; on the contrary, they were an extension of my art.”
Sonia Delaunay
The making of Woman-Mother, project 3D stainted glass