Tamar Mayer is an art historian specializing in nineteenth century French art, drawing theory, museum history and curatorial practice. Her book: Jacques-Louis David’s Drawings: Bodies in Action was published by Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment/Liverpool University Press (2026). Her essays on drawings and prints appeared in, among others, Master Drawings (2018) the Journal of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2017), and Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums (2022).  Tamar is leading a research project on the drawings of Moshe Barasch, the founder of art history in Israel, supported by the Israeli Science Foundation, and was recently a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2024-2025). 

Tamar’s curatorial training includes a Chester-Dale fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015-2016), and a Rhoades Curatorial internship at the Art Institute of Chicago (2013-14), among others. At Tel-Aviv University, she curated the exhibition Plan(e)t (2020-21, with Prof. Sefy Hendler), In the Mind’s Eye (2023), Drawing Art History (2023, with Prof. Jérémie Koering) and Re: Empathy (2024). Two of her exhibitions won second place at the UMAC International Award for excellence and innovation in university museums. Her articles on curating were published in international journals, like the Journal for Museum Management and Curatorship (2022), Arts (2025) and Curator (2026).

External Links:

• https://english.tau.ac.il/profile/mayertamar
• https://www.ias.edu/scholars/tamar-mayer 
• https://cris.tau.ac.il/en/persons/tamar-mayer/ 
• https://www.ias.edu/ideas/how-do-art-historians-draw-their-insights