Michal Heiman is an artist, curator, theoretician, and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests No. 1–4 (M.H.T.s). She is the founder of the Photographer Unknown archive (1984). Her enactment and installation works, photography and film series, and her lectures/performances are deeply rooted in the political, familial, and social arenas. She teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. In 2015, she founded the Women in Academia Organization to protect and advance women's equality in the academy. Her project Return/Asylum: A New Community of Women, 1855–2019 is to be exhibited in Washington, D.C., and Los Angles during 2019–2020.
