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Efrat, Benni  

Israeli, 20th century, male.

Born 1936.

Performance artist, installation artist. Multimedia.

Educated on a kibbutz, he expresses himself through performances, such as Ararat Express, given in Lyons in spring 1987, as well as through exhibitions, notably that of the same year at the Museum of Israeli Art Ramat Gan....

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Gersht, Ori  

Israeli, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in the United Kingdom.

Born 1967, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Photographer, video artist. Sound, multimedia.

Ori Gersht studied photography at the University of Westminster, London, and graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in 1992. He then went on to study for an M.A. in the same subject at the Royal College of Art, London. A year after graduating, he took up the post of senior lecturer at Kent Institute of Art and Design, where he taught for seven years before becoming a reader at the same institute until ...

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Hassan, Jamelie  

Canadian, 20th–21st century, female.

Born 1 Sept 1948, in London (Ontario).

Multimedia artist, installation artist, curator.

Jamelie Hassan is a Canadian artist, curator, and activist of Arabic background. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1967, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Beirut, Lebanon, ...

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Hatoum, Mona  

Palestinian, 20th–21st century, female.

Active in England since 1975.

Born 1952, in Beirut.

Sculptor, installation artist, photographer. Multimedia.

Mona Hatoum studied graphic design at Beirut University College before settling in London in 1975, during civil war in Lebanon. In London she studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. In the 1980s she began making video and performance works incorporating themes of exile and the body, such as ...

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Jacir, Emily  

Mary Chou

(b Bethlehem, 1970).

Palestinian conceptual artist. Jacir’s works use a variety of media including film, photography, installation, performance, video, sound, sculpture and painting. Jacir was raised in Saudi Arabia and attended high school in Rome, Italy. She received her BA from the University of Dallas, Irving, TX in 1992, her MFA from the Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN in 1994, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program from 1998 to 1999. She became a professor at the International Academy of Art, Palestine in Ramallah in 2007. Jacir’s conceptual works explore the physical and psychological effects of social and political displacement and exile, primarily how they affect the Palestinian community. Her work investigated the impact of Israeli action on the Palestinian people and countered representations of Palestinians in the press as primarily militant. Jacir often collaborated with members of the Palestinian community, both local and international, in the creation of her works....

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Neshat, Shirin  

Iranian, 20th – 21st century, female.

Active in the USA.

Born 26 March 1957, in Qazvin, Iran.

Painter, video artist, installation artist, photographer. Multimedia.

Shirin Neshat was born in Iran but left to study art at the University of California, Berkeley, at the age of 17. She lives and works in New York. She won a Lion d’Or at the Venice Biennale in 1999 for her film Turbulent, which formed part of her solo exhibition in London at the Serpentine Gallery (2000). In 2006, she was awarded the Lillian Gish Prize, in New York, and in 2009, she won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. More recently her films, including her first full-length feature, Women without Men (ICA, Boston, 2010), explore tensions and conflicts between men and women, as well as women’s experiences in modern-day Iran.

In her early photographic work, produced following a trip back to Iran in ...

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Sarkis  

Armenian, 20th century, male.

Active in France from 1964.

Born 1938, in Istanbul.

Painter, watercolourist, sculptor of assemblages, installation artist. Multimedia.

Conceptual Art, Art Narratif.

After studying in Istanbul from 1957 to 1960, Sarkis began to paint. He worked in Paris from 1964 onwards and taught at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. Between ...

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Sedira, Zineb  

Robin Holmes

(b Paris, April 1, 1963).

French photographer, video artist, and installation artist of Algerian descent, active in the UK. Born in Paris in 1963, Zineb Sedira relocated to England in 1986. In 1995 she earned a BA in critical fine art practice with a focus on post-colonial studies at Central Saint Martins School of Art. She finished an MFA in Media at the Slade School of Art in 1997 and conducted research studies at the Royal College of Art until 2003. Through the use of self-portraiture, family narrative, and images of the Mediterranean, her work has addressed ethnic, religious, and gender identities as well as issues of stereotype, displacement, and migration. She draws on her Algerian heritage in much of her work, evoking North Africa through the integration of traditional Islamic forms and motifs into her installations. In her 1997 work Quatre générations de femmes, Sedira incorporated repeated images of her mother, daughter, and herself into traditional Islamic tile patterns (...

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Toren, Amikam  

Israeli-British, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in London from the late 1960s.

Born 1945, in Israel.

Video artist, painter, sculptor. Multimedia.

Amikam Toren spent his formative years in Tel Aviv learning to paint and draw under Peter Hesse. He had his first solo show at the Maserik Gallery in Tel Aviv in 1967. He subsequently went to Paris and then settled in London. Toren uses found objects such as paintings that he finds at junk shops and flea markets. In his series Armchair Paintings, Toren stencils incisions into such paintings’ surfaces to inscribe them with witty truisms or profane phrases that he has heard or read. The words act as a counterpoint to the often banal imagery of the paintings. In 2008, he began working collaboratively on film, sound, and architectural projects that record daily activities and the passage of time. Carrots (2008), his first video piece, deals with separate encounters between himself and people whom he meets by chance, whilst ...

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Tzaig, Uri  

Israeli, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1965, in Tel Aviv.

Sculptor, installation artist, video artist. Multimedia.

Conceptual Art.

Uri Tzaig graduated from the theatre school in Jerusalem in 1990 and lives and works in Tel Aviv. He initially produced small-scale sculptures in which his literary work played an essential part, then progressed to video installations. One of these, ...