Tamy Ben-Tor

Tamy Ben-Tor (born 1975) is an Israeli visual artist.

Ben-Tor is one of a number of prominent female artists inventing characters and playing them herself, her work combines performance with photography and/or video. Included in this lineage of artists are Claude Cahun, Eleanor Antin, Martha Wilson, and Cindy Sherman. Her themes draw on the social observation of daily life and gender roles, but dig with more risky commentary into issues relating to Jewishness and Israel, her country of origin where she graduated from the School of Visual Theatre. Graduating then from Columbia University's MFA Program in 2006, she lives and works in New York and shows with Zach Feuer Gallery.

She has had solo shows at the , Stockholm; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Kunsthalle Winterthur; and Cubitt Artists, London. Ben-Tor has also participated in a large number of group exhibitions including; The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989 at ZKM, Karlsruhe;Video Art: Replay, Part IIIInstitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia;Revolutions - Forms That Turn Biennale of Sydney; Manifesta 7; All About Humor Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Combine Platter Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; ...but i was only acting! Museo Reina Sofía; as well as the PERFORMA 05 and PERFORMA 07 Biennials, New York.

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