Miriam Mörsel Nathan

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 in numerous group shows in galleries including DC Arts Center (DCAC) in Washington, DC and Betty Mae Kramer Gallery, in Maryland.

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 was the cover image for Into the Cyclorama, the collection of poems by Annie Kim, winner of the 2015 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her work was the cover art for the Conductor’s score for the opera Lost Childhood.

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, The Bitter Oleander, Poet Lore and Daughters of Absence (Capital Books, 2000). 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.

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 Fundación CIEC, Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea, Betanzos, La Coruña, Spain.