Hilla Ben Ari
Born in 1972
Lives and works in Tel-Aviv
Education
2006 Masters degree in Poetics and Comparative Literature, Tel- Aviv University
2003 Advanced Studies Program in fine Art, Kalisher College, Tel-Aviv
1995-99 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025 'Guard', 9 Ahad Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv
2023 'I Must Be Circumstanced', with the Limón Dance Company, New York Live Arts, NYC (performance)
2023 'Flexion - Extension', Apter Barrer Arts Center, Maalot
2021 'The Voice that Calls to Itself', Ticho House - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2019 'Na'amah - A Tribute to Nahum Benari', Gary R. Libby Gallery, University of Florida
2017 'Rethinking Broken Lines: A Tribute to Heda Oren', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2016 'Phoneme', Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 'Tensioni E-Statiche', with Alice Cattaneo, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
2015 'Naamah: A Tribute to Nahum Benari', Museum of Art Ein Harod
2014 'The Keystone', Dana Gallery, Yad Mordechai
2013 'Lucretia', Artists in Residence #4, Macro Museum of Contemporary Art Rome
2012 'Lacuna', Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2011 'Falling in Line', with Maya Attoun, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
2010 'Footwork', with Uriel Miron, gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2008 'The Left Shoulder', Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2007 'Hibernation', in 'Internal Tourism', The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2005 'Flying Buttress', with Nelly Agassi, Cabri Gallery
2004 'Diana', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2003 'Starkiss', Kalisher College, Tel-Aviv
2002 'Orange/ Cut-off', Ceramics Department Gallery, Bezalel, Jerusalem
2001 'To Hold', the Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 'Common Ground', The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2023 'Long Distance', Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel Aviv
2022 'PHOTO IS:RAEL International Photography Festival', Tel Aviv
2021 'Motion', The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva
2020 'Time', Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem
2020 'Between Two Syllables There Is an Empty Space', The New Gallery, Musrara
2020 'As She Transforms', Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2019 '100 Years of Women's Suffrage', German Bundestag, Berlin
2018 'The Latest: New Works from the Prints and Drawings Collection', Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2018 'Scenes from Family Life: The Israel Discount Bank Collection', Eretz Israel Museum
2018 'Contemporary Local Print', The New Gallery -Teddy, Jerusalem
2017 'Collective: Reflections on the Museum Collections', Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2017 'Body + Camera Festival', Mana Contemporary Chicago / New Jersey
2017 'We Hereby Declare: Ministry of Culture Awards in Art and Design', MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam
2017 'In the Body of the Wood: Winners of the Jacob Pins Prize', Jerusalem Print Workshop
2017 'Women Workers' Movement', Beit Uri and Rami Nehostan Museum, Ashdot Yaakov
2017 'On the Edge: Israeli Paper', Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2016 'The Black Art', Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 'Premio Combat Prize', Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno, Italy
2016 'SpaceTime: Video Art and Installations from the Haaretz Collection', Minus 1, Tel Aviv
2016 'Sculpture; Allegories of the Present', The Artists' House, Tel Aviv
2015 'The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival', The National Art Center, Tokyo
2015 'Takamatsu Media Arts Festival', Takamatsu, Japan
2014 'Fair Play', MAXXI Museum, Rome
2014 'The Chicago Triangel', Haifa Museum of Art
2013 'To Leave A Mark, The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel', Jerusalem Print Workshop
2013 'Print Time', Tefen Open Museum
2013 'Layers of Identity', LA Print Space, Los Angeles
2013 'Domesric Utopias', NGBK Berli
2013 'The Ministry Of Culture Prizes In Art And Design', Ashdod Museum of Art
2013 'Epos 4 - The International Art Film Festival', Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2012 'OC Collects', Orange County Museum of Art, California
2012 'Daily Reports', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2012 'Self Staging', Magician Space, Beijing
2012 'Horizontal', Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn
2012 'Home Affairs', IVAHM' 12, Centro de Artes, Madrid/ CINETORO Film Festival, Colombia
2011 'Curators &co.', Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2011 'Crimson Peels', Jerusalem Print Workshop
2011 'Scales and Measures', Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin
2011 'Numerator and Denominator', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2011 'Homemade 4', Loop Festival, Barcelona
2010 'Videoholica 2010', Varna, Bulgaria
2009 '2009 Asian Art Biennial', National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2009 'Videonale 12 – Festival of Contemporary Video Art' , Bonn Museum of Art
2009 'Natural History Museum', Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2009 'Paperworks', Ticho House -The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2008 'Optica – International Festival of Video Art', Madrid and Paris
2008 'Infertility', Florentin 45 - Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2007 'The Beautiful Void', Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2007 'Closing – Opening', the Canal Chapter Gallery, New York
2007 'Sweet 16', Bat Yam Museum of Art
2007 'The Other Sea', the Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2006 'Israeli Artists', Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels
2005 'High Heels in the Sand: Trafficking in Women in Israel', Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2005 'Togetherness: The ‘Group’ and the Kibbutz in Collective Israeli Consciousness', Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
2004 'The Last Dance', Ha'aretz Art Festival, Tel-Aviv
2004, 2003 'OverCraft : Obsession, Decoration and Biting Beauty', Haifa University Gallery; The Artists’ House, Tel-Aviv
2001 'Artik 3: Winners of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship', University of Tel Aviv Gallery
2000 'Artik 2: Winners of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship', Ramat Gan Museum
Grants and Awards
2023 Plumas Art Foundation Grant
2021 The Foundation for Independent Creators grant, Ministry of Culture and Sports
2021 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts grant, Tel Aviv
2021 Project Grant - Impact Collections with the assistance of Outset Contemporary Art Fund
2020 Mifal HaPais - Arts and Culture Grant
2020 Artis Residency Grant
2019 The Visiting Israeli Artists Program Award, the Israel Institute, Washington D.C.
2017 Research Grant - Asylum Arts, NY
2016 Award for an Established Video Artist, the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
2016 Premio Combat Prize - video category, Italy
2016 Award on behalf of the Ostrovsky Family Fund - The Israeli Video Art and Experimental Cinema – Jerusalem Film Festival.
2016 Project Grant - Outset Contemporary Art Fund
2016 Pins Prize for an Israeli Print Artist, The Israel Museum
2016 Project Grant - The Artis Grant Program
2016 Mifal HaPais - Arts and Culture Grant
2016 Video grant - Ostrovsky Family Fund
2015 Mifal HaPais - Arts and Culture Grant
2015 Jury selection - The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo
2014 Kolb Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2014 Video grant - Ostrovsky Family Fund
2014 Hadassah–Brandeis Institute Research Award
2013 Video grant - Ostrovsky Family Fund
2012 Artis Grant Recipient
2012 Prize to Encourage Creativity from the Ministry of Culture and Sport
2011 Fonds Roberto Cimetta Grant
2008 Optica: International Festival of Video Art Gallery Award
2007 Residency grant, Canal Chapter Gallery, New York
2005, 2003 The Rabinovich Foundation Scholarship for the Plastic Arts
1999-00 America-Israel Cultural foundation Scholarship
Collections
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Petach Tikva Museum of Art
Museum of Art Ein Harod
Kunstsammlung im Deutschen Bundestag, Berlin
The Knesset Art Collection, Jerusalem
Schocken Collection, Ha'aretz, Tel Aviv
Israel Discount Bank Collection, Tel Aviv
Comme il Faut Collection
Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Collection
Private Collections
Born in 1972
Lives and works in Tel-Aviv
Education
2006 Masters degree in Poetics and Comparative Literature, Tel- Aviv University
2003 Advanced Studies Program in fine Art, Kalisher College, Tel-Aviv
1995-99 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025 'Guard', 9 Ahad Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv
2023 'I Must Be Circumstanced', with the Limón Dance Company, New York Live Arts, NYC (performance)
2023 'Flexion - Extension', Apter Barrer Arts Center, Maalot
2021 'The Voice that Calls to Itself', Ticho House - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2019 'Na'amah - A Tribute to Nahum Benari', Gary R. Libby Gallery, University of Florida
2017 'Rethinking Broken Lines: A Tribute to Heda Oren', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2016 'Phoneme', Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 'Tensioni E-Statiche', with Alice Cattaneo, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
2015 'Naamah: A Tribute to Nahum Benari', Museum of Art Ein Harod
2014 'The Keystone', Dana Gallery, Yad Mordechai
2013 'Lucretia', Artists in Residence #4, Macro Museum of Contemporary Art Rome
2012 'Lacuna', Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2011 'Falling in Line', with Maya Attoun, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
2010 'Footwork', with Uriel Miron, gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2008 'The Left Shoulder', Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2007 'Hibernation', in 'Internal Tourism', The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2005 'Flying Buttress', with Nelly Agassi, Cabri Gallery
2004 'Diana', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2003 'Starkiss', Kalisher College, Tel-Aviv
2002 'Orange/ Cut-off', Ceramics Department Gallery, Bezalel, Jerusalem
2001 'To Hold', the Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 'Common Ground', The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2023 'Long Distance', Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel Aviv
2022 'PHOTO IS:RAEL International Photography Festival', Tel Aviv
2021 'Motion', The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva
2020 'Time', Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem
2020 'Between Two Syllables There Is an Empty Space', The New Gallery, Musrara
2020 'As She Transforms', Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2019 '100 Years of Women's Suffrage', German Bundestag, Berlin
2018 'The Latest: New Works from the Prints and Drawings Collection', Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2018 'Scenes from Family Life: The Israel Discount Bank Collection', Eretz Israel Museum
2018 'Contemporary Local Print', The New Gallery -Teddy, Jerusalem
2017 'Collective: Reflections on the Museum Collections', Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2017 'Body + Camera Festival', Mana Contemporary Chicago / New Jersey
2017 'We Hereby Declare: Ministry of Culture Awards in Art and Design', MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam
2017 'In the Body of the Wood: Winners of the Jacob Pins Prize', Jerusalem Print Workshop
2017 'Women Workers' Movement', Beit Uri and Rami Nehostan Museum, Ashdot Yaakov
2017 'On the Edge: Israeli Paper', Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2016 'The Black Art', Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 'Premio Combat Prize', Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno, Italy
2016 'SpaceTime: Video Art and Installations from the Haaretz Collection', Minus 1, Tel Aviv
2016 'Sculpture; Allegories of the Present', The Artists' House, Tel Aviv
2015 'The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival', The National Art Center, Tokyo
2015 'Takamatsu Media Arts Festival', Takamatsu, Japan
2014 'Fair Play', MAXXI Museum, Rome
2014 'The Chicago Triangel', Haifa Museum of Art
2013 'To Leave A Mark, The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel', Jerusalem Print Workshop
2013 'Print Time', Tefen Open Museum
2013 'Layers of Identity', LA Print Space, Los Angeles
2013 'Domesric Utopias', NGBK Berli
2013 'The Ministry Of Culture Prizes In Art And Design', Ashdod Museum of Art
2013 'Epos 4 - The International Art Film Festival', Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2012 'OC Collects', Orange County Museum of Art, California
2012 'Daily Reports', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2012 'Self Staging', Magician Space, Beijing
2012 'Horizontal', Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn
2012 'Home Affairs', IVAHM' 12, Centro de Artes, Madrid/ CINETORO Film Festival, Colombia
2011 'Curators &co.', Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2011 'Crimson Peels', Jerusalem Print Workshop
2011 'Scales and Measures', Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin
2011 'Numerator and Denominator', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2011 'Homemade 4', Loop Festival, Barcelona
2010 'Videoholica 2010', Varna, Bulgaria
2009 '2009 Asian Art Biennial', National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2009 'Videonale 12 – Festival of Contemporary Video Art' , Bonn Museum of Art
2009 'Natural History Museum', Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2009 'Paperworks', Ticho House -The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2008 'Optica – International Festival of Video Art', Madrid and Paris
2008 'Infertility', Florentin 45 - Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2007 'The Beautiful Void', Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2007 'Closing – Opening', the Canal Chapter Gallery, New York
2007 'Sweet 16', Bat Yam Museum of Art
2007 'The Other Sea', the Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2006 'Israeli Artists', Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels
2005 'High Heels in the Sand: Trafficking in Women in Israel', Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2005 'Togetherness: The ‘Group’ and the Kibbutz in Collective Israeli Consciousness', Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
2004 'The Last Dance', Ha'aretz Art Festival, Tel-Aviv
2004, 2003 'OverCraft : Obsession, Decoration and Biting Beauty', Haifa University Gallery; The Artists’ House, Tel-Aviv
2001 'Artik 3: Winners of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship', University of Tel Aviv Gallery
2000 'Artik 2: Winners of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship', Ramat Gan Museum
Grants and Awards
2023 Plumas Art Foundation Grant
2021 The Foundation for Independent Creators grant, Ministry of Culture and Sports
2021 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts grant, Tel Aviv
2021 Project Grant - Impact Collections with the assistance of Outset Contemporary Art Fund
2020 Mifal HaPais - Arts and Culture Grant
2020 Artis Residency Grant
2019 The Visiting Israeli Artists Program Award, the Israel Institute, Washington D.C.
2017 Research Grant - Asylum Arts, NY
2016 Award for an Established Video Artist, the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
2016 Premio Combat Prize - video category, Italy
2016 Award on behalf of the Ostrovsky Family Fund - The Israeli Video Art and Experimental Cinema – Jerusalem Film Festival.
2016 Project Grant - Outset Contemporary Art Fund
2016 Pins Prize for an Israeli Print Artist, The Israel Museum
2016 Project Grant - The Artis Grant Program
2016 Mifal HaPais - Arts and Culture Grant
2016 Video grant - Ostrovsky Family Fund
2015 Mifal HaPais - Arts and Culture Grant
2015 Jury selection - The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo
2014 Kolb Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2014 Video grant - Ostrovsky Family Fund
2014 Hadassah–Brandeis Institute Research Award
2013 Video grant - Ostrovsky Family Fund
2012 Artis Grant Recipient
2012 Prize to Encourage Creativity from the Ministry of Culture and Sport
2011 Fonds Roberto Cimetta Grant
2008 Optica: International Festival of Video Art Gallery Award
2007 Residency grant, Canal Chapter Gallery, New York
2005, 2003 The Rabinovich Foundation Scholarship for the Plastic Arts
1999-00 America-Israel Cultural foundation Scholarship
Collections
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Petach Tikva Museum of Art
Museum of Art Ein Harod
Kunstsammlung im Deutschen Bundestag, Berlin
The Knesset Art Collection, Jerusalem
Schocken Collection, Ha'aretz, Tel Aviv
Israel Discount Bank Collection, Tel Aviv
Comme il Faut Collection
Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Collection
Private Collections