Master Plan, Mother Tongue
2019
Keren Benbenisty
New York, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Keren Benbenisty
Keren Benbenisty (b. Israel, 1977) moved to Paris in 1998, graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 2004 and attended the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) as an international exchange scholar. She has been artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2009); The International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn (2011); Residency Unlimited, New York (2016); and Arts Maebashi, Japan (2017). She is currently participating in the Open Sessions program at the Drawing Center, New York. Her work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center; A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn; Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn; Mishkan Ein Harod, Israel; Petach Tikva Museum, Israel; Ulterior Gallery, NY; CUNY Graduate Center, New York; Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art; University Gallery, Tel Aviv; Artists' House, Jerusalem; Francesca Antonini Gallery, Rome; and Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2019
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Rooted in my immigrant identity, my videos, sculptures and drawings explore notions of loss, displacement and communication through historical narratives and myths. Similar to the methods of psychoanalysis, in which language is a tool used to excavate the past and analyze the present, my work allows me to link the archaic and the modern, demonstrating the repetitions in history, bringing the past into the present.”
