Visual Arts
About Naomi Ben-Shahar
Naomi Ben-Shahar is a multi-disciplinary Israeli artist living and working in New York. Her work developed from her practice as painter and photographer, and her studies in fine art, film and philosophy.
She has benefited from local and international support, including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY Foundation for the Arts, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Germany, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
Her work was shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NY; the International Video Festival in Casablanca; Feature, Inc., White Columns, Invisible-Exports, and Bravin Post Lee galleries in NY; FA Projects in London; Edith Russ Site for Media Arts in Germany; Art and Process in Paris; Torch Gallery in Amsterdam; Camera Works in San Francisco; BY Art Projects in Tel Aviv, among others.
Ms. Ben-Shahar curated contemporary art exhibitions for the NY City Opera at Lincoln Center in NY. She taught photography at Fordham University and at the International Center of Photography in New York, worked as a photo editor at the New Yorker magazine and Abbeville Press, was an art advisor for 2x4, and an image editor/editor at large at Cabinet Magazine for arts and culture.
She has benefited from local and international support, including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY Foundation for the Arts, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Germany, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
Her work was shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NY; the International Video Festival in Casablanca; Feature, Inc., White Columns, Invisible-Exports, and Bravin Post Lee galleries in NY; FA Projects in London; Edith Russ Site for Media Arts in Germany; Art and Process in Paris; Torch Gallery in Amsterdam; Camera Works in San Francisco; BY Art Projects in Tel Aviv, among others.
Ms. Ben-Shahar curated contemporary art exhibitions for the NY City Opera at Lincoln Center in NY. She taught photography at Fordham University and at the International Center of Photography in New York, worked as a photo editor at the New Yorker magazine and Abbeville Press, was an art advisor for 2x4, and an image editor/editor at large at Cabinet Magazine for arts and culture.
