N
itzan Mintz is a visual poet based in Tel Aviv. She began working a decade ago in the streets of Tel Aviv, where she would create visual poetry for specific locations in the city. She later continued to create studio pieces as well.
N
itzan Mintz is a visual poet based in Tel Aviv. She began working a decade ago in the streets of Tel Aviv, where she would create visual poetry for specific locations in the city. She later continued to create studio pieces as well.
N
itzan Mintz is a multidisciplinary artist and visual poet based in New York, originally from Tel Aviv. Her work explores the emotional, social, and material layers embedded in the spaces we inhabit, transforming personal and collective experiences into tactile, mixed-media compositions.
Rooted in the urban landscape, her practice emerged from creating visual poetry in public spaces, where the city itself became both material and muse.
Drawing from her background in street-based work, Mintz integrates found objects, industrial materials, paint, and text to construct layered pieces that reflect memory, vulnerability, and transformation. The public sphere continues to inform her studio practice, as fragments of daily life, architecture, and movement are deconstructed and reassembled into poetic visual narratives.
Following her relocation to the United States, Mintz’s work has increasingly explored themes of displacement, resilience, fertility, and the making of home. Through painting, collage, and writing, she translates intimate experiences, such as migration, partnership, and early motherhood, into abstract, emotionally resonant forms.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in New York, Miami, Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Prague. Through materiality and text, Mintz creates spaces for reflection, connection, and shared human experience.
Artist Statement
My work explores the emotional and social layers embedded in the spaces we inhabit. Through visual poetry, collage, painting, and site-specific interventions, I transform personal and collective experiences into tactile, material-based works that move between the private and the public.
My practice is rooted in the urban environment. The streets, symbols, and social dynamics that shaped my early years continue to inform my visual language. In the studio, I deconstruct fragments of daily life and reconstruct them into layered compositions using found materials, remnants of earlier works, industrial paints, and textured surfaces. These materials carry traces of their previous lives, allowing each piece to hold memory, time, and presence.
After immigrating to the United States without familial support, my work shifted toward themes of post-trauma, adaptation, and resilience. Drawing from photographs of my surroundings, I create mixed-media works that merge raw, industrial elements with more traditional materials, revealing emotional and physical imprints through surface and form.
In recent years, I have begun documenting my journey into motherhood. Fertility, pregnancy, and the anticipation of parenthood have become central themes in my work, translated into abstract visual language that explores vulnerability, transformation, and the creation of new life. Alongside painting, I incorporate writing and poetic text, expanding the narrative dimension of the work.
Ultimately, my practice is about connection between past and present, inner and outer worlds, and the personal and the collective. Through material, texture, and language, I seek to create spaces for reflection, empathy, and shared emotional experience.
