Keren Benbenisty
Keren Benbenisty is a multi-disciplinary research-based artist exploring notions of loss and displacement through historical narratives and myths. Her work focuses on micro-events and their long-term ramifications within the disciplines of archeology, biology and linguistics. As such, in her recent projects, she examined the impact of migration, colonialism and exile in her homeland, Israel, a territory charged with continuous conflicts that fuel the perpetual geographical, political and social crisis.
Keren Benbenisty (b. Israel) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2004) and attended Cal’Arts (2003). Benbenisty has been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture; International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP); Residency Unlimited (RU); Arts Maebashi, Japan; Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, NY.
She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Grant (2019); Foundation for Contemporary Art (2019); ARTIS, Contemporary Israeli Art Fund (2011/2020), Ostrovsky Family Foundation grant (2011) among others. Recent exhibition venues include The Johnson Museum; The Drawing Center; Petach-Tikva Museum; Mishkan Ein Harod; A.I.R Gallery; CUNY Graduate Center; Tel-Aviv Museum of Modern Art;
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Works
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Mother Tongue
A series of carved stones, ink, water. Ein Harod Museum![](https://artport.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Benbenisty_Keren_04-480x329.jpg)
Fajja
Two-channel video and sound installation, LCD screens 55”; a series of 60 drawings, blue ink on original Jaffa Oranges wrapping paper; 3D-printed object.![](https://artport.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1_UntitledMaps_XIII_2019-480x320.jpg)
This is the Color of My Dream
Prussian Blue pigment, orange peels glued on archival digital inkjet print.A series of 26 maps, 82X68 cm (each)
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