Michal Perry is an American-Israeli poet and painter. She was born in Jerusalem and graduated from the Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv. She completed her master's studies at Bar-Ilan University.
Michal has presented a selection of solo exhibitions in galleries and museums: Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, Florida). International Artists Museum (Lodz, Poland). Cartieu-Thompson Gallery (Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California). Gradec, Museum of Modern Art (Zagreb, Croatia). Mabat Gallery (Tel Aviv). Klarfeld-Perry Gallery (New York), and more.
Her work has been featured in various group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Israel: Human Landscape, Haifa Museum of Art. TerrorVision, Exit Art (New York). The Earth is a Flower, Bydgoszcz Museum of Art (Poland). ArtOmi – residency program (Omi, New York). Mabat Gallery (Tel Aviv). Artists Museum (Poland), and more.
Her work received reviews from Acclaimed art critics: Donald Kuspit, Robert C. Morgan, Richard Vine, Art in America, Wendy M. Blazier (Florida), Mark Daniel Cohen, New York Art Magazine. David Hunt. Angela Levine, Jerusalem Post, and many others.
Michal has published three full-length poetry collections in Hebrew. Waking up From A Dream to A Dream - Forthcoming 2026, Emda Publishing. Lost Space of time - Poems, edited by Ilan Sheinfeld, Ktav Publishing, 2024. The book received a grant from the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Sport - Culture Administration. Between Light and Light - Poems, edited by Tzipi Shahrur, Argaman-Meitav Publishing, 2022. Scrolls of Nothing - Monologues from the Subconscious - The book was printed as part of an exhibition at the Artists' House, Tel Aviv, which included paintings and texts, 2009.Her poems have appeared in leading journals: The Ekphrastic Review, Jewish Book Council, Yehi - Poetic-Political Journal, and other leading literary magazines and anthologies, and have been translated into several languages.
Michal's short story, Dad and the Tibetan Steppe Wolf won the prestigious award as a recommended story in Haaretz's 2025 Short Story Competition.
Her Poetry collection Lost Spaceof Time won a scholarship from the Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Sport for her third poetry book, (2023).
Michal is the mother of two daughters and has lived and worked in New York and Tel Aviv since 1989.
“The paintings of Michal Sedaka Perry offer an experience of being inside a particular intensity of mind. This wary intelligence combined with an astute tactile sensibility lends an evanescent physical involvement to the surface space. There is a suspension of the rational interlude. As with the early automatists – thinking specifically of Andre Masson and the later Gorky – Sedaka Perry is searching for the transition between unmediated thought and visual language. This is what Andre Breton advocated in his Surrealist Manifesto as a means for getting beyond the hesitancy and the superficiality of a false rationality. It is this false rationality that too often projects itself into the domain of academic painting, including the current American absorption with formalist postmodernism. Sedaka perry goes far beyond the constraints of this current academic frame and therefore beyond any condition of formalist expectation. What surfaces from this approach is the resolute gesture -- an affirmation of mind that reveals itself as an existential sign, a visual effect that is directly related to causation. This is the emotional tension Implicitly felt in Sedaka Perry's paintings.“
Robert C. Morgan
(Michal Sedaka Perry's Affirmation)