Keila Moizhesh — multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans oil pastel, ink, wax pastel monotypes, soft pastel, and drypoint. Recognized for her charged, kinetic linework, she creates figures that appear to be carved from movement itself — luminous forms emerging from restless, nervous lines and sudden contrasts. Her practice moves fluidly between painting and drawing, often collapsing the distinction and favoring immediacy and gesture over material hierarchy.

Her imagery unfolds as a shifting theatre of memory, humor, and unease — characters suspended between wakefulness and reverie, accompanied by beast-like figures that move through her narratives as symbols and witnesses. With a tone both vulnerable and ironic, Moizhesh transforms fatigue, doubt, and inherited longing into scenes shaped by persistence and hope. The past of St. Petersburg surfaces throughout her compositions like an echo, entwined with her present life in Israel, forming a world where identity seems fluid, layered, and unfinal.

Moizhesh continues to expand her ongoing body of work Shtetle (2024–), a lifelong return to an imagined ancestral village built from fragments of recollection and fiction. Her art has appeared in group exhibitions, including What’s Next? (online, 2024), and WiroArt Window (Boston, 2023), and features in private collections internationally — work that conceals revelation within its gestures, inviting viewers to step closer, follow the lines, and uncover stories that resist final interpretation.

Born in 1997 in St.Petersburg, RU
Resides and works in Haifa, IL

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