Milcah Bassel
Milcah Bassel is a multidisciplinary artist raised in Israel and based in Jersey City. Her work is an experiential investigation of body-space relations incorporating installation, performance, drawing, and other media. She has exhibited and performed at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Newark Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, Soho20 Gallery, Pulse, EAB, Untitled, and Select art fairs, amongst others. Bassel earned a Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Art from Brandeis University and an MFA in Visual Art from Rutgers University. She is the recipient of a Brodsky Center residency and NEA grant (2014), Hadassah-Brandeis Institute residency (2015), Guttenberg Arts STAR residency (2017), Bronx Museum AIM fellowship (2017), Center for Book Arts workspace residency (2018), and was recently awarded a 2019 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship. Bassel is a part-time lecturer at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and at SUNY Purchase College.
