PROJECTS
EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT
2025
Solo exhibition, “From the Inner Margin” In the city hall of Sibiu, Romanian
Solo exhibition, The “Mohicans”, the Palmach Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (February 2023)
Solo exhibition, Outdoor exhibition – Extinct culture, the community-Domari (September 2023)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES /
1947
Born in Ramat Gan, Israel
1967
Enamelwork and silver jewelry, cloisonné and champlevé
1968
Radio and TV research and production
1984
TV director and reporter
1996
Photographer and multimedia artist
STUDIES /
2000-2009
Master classes with the top photographers in Israel
1993-1996
Geographic Photography College, Tel Aviv
1976-1978
TV Journalism College, Tel Aviv
1971-1974
College of Art, Herzliya
1966-68
College of Arts and Crafts, Givatayim
AWARDS /
2019
Finalist portrait slideshow, the 10th Head-On international photo festival.
Finalist to Kipa award about “Justice”, Tel-Aviv /New-York
2017
B&W magazine: 2018 single image contest
Magnum Photography Awards 2017
HARIBAN AWARD 2017, Kyoto, Japan
UNESCO Art & Society award, Honorable Mention
The 5th Edition of the Jacob Riis for documentary Award
2013
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards: First Prize, Culture and People category
2011
CIDPAE Museum Award, Lishui, China
2011
The 2nd Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Portrait and Figures category
2009
“Humanity Photo Awards (HPA) Exhibition” (organized by UNESCO and CFPA), Guangzhou, China
1988
Ziv Award for TV Journalism
ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS /
Association for women’s art and gender
Professional Visual Artists Association
The Union of Journalists in Israel
Professional Women Photographers
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE/
2015 – “Quest” – Benyamini Center, Tel-Aviv
2016 – “Quest” – Open Museum of Photography at Tel-Hai
2020 – “Malkuta” – Museum garden outdoor exhibition, Holon
LECTURES AND JURY EXPERIENCE/
Mofet institute, Tel Aviv, Israel (2019)
IS: RAEL the 7th international photography festival, Israel (2019)
The festival of documentary film, Lodz, Poland (2019)
Head On the 10th international photography festival, Sydney, Australia (2019)
“Oh-Man Oh-Machine,” Art & Science” TLV University and New Academy Center of Art &Culture (2014)
Memory of Future gallery, Paris (2014)
Haifa University, Department of Sociology (2012)
Photography workshops, Rehovot (2010)
COLLECTIONS /
The National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Ramat-Gan Museum of Israeli Art
The Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, Poland
The Artists House, Munich, Germany
Private collections, among others are: Yehudit Yovel Recanati, Ami Federmann
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS /
2024 “Spring Out Tiredness”, Memoire de l’Avenir Gallery,Paris, curator: Li Wei
2022 “Bring La Terre Comme Omme Évenement”, Portugal,
Au Centre cultural de Maçao
2021 “MY I” International Art Fair, Venice
“Space place” international art fair 2021, London
“Ester” Soul noir festival, Dublin
2019 Solo exhibition “Ladies in waiting” in MLB space, Rencontres d’Arles 2019, France,curator: Marie Burgia
Solo exhibition, Head-On Photo Festival. Sydney, Australia, curator: Moshe Rosenzveig
Solo exhibition, A 360-degree panorama, permanent virtual interactive at the Polish
Textile Museum, curator: Dr. Halina Goldberg
2018 Solo exhibition, The International Photography Festival of PHOTO IS: RAEL,
curator: Daria Kaufman
The 5th edition of the of Fine Art & documentary, Biennale- photography, Barcelona,
PhotoBook Show, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Cuckoo’s Nest gallery, “Beyond the mind”, Jaffa, Israel
2017 Solo exhibition, Gallery Ryugaheon, Seoul, Korea, curator: Mi Kyung Park
UNESCO –Art & Society, Solo exhibition at the World Humanities Conference, Bruges,
Belgium, curator: Margalit Berriet
Bosom Bodies, SIA Gallery, NYC
Photography Museum, DIPF, 2017 DongGang International Photo Festival, Korea,
curator: HeeJung Kim
2016 Solo exhibition, Art House, Munich, Germany, curator: Dr. Anna Zanco-Prestel
“My I”, The gallery of cultural and Community Center, NY
Solo exhibition, Textile Museum, the 15th international Triennial of Textiles Lodz,
Poland, curator: Anka Dąbrowicz
2015 Solo exhibition- “Tiganca”, Museum Ramat-Gan, curator: Meir Aharonson
“Earth”, Ahmdbad, Brauda, Mombai, (National Gallery), India
50th anniversary of German-Israeli relations, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany
2014 Solo exhibition – “Home is where the Hurt is”, Memory of Future gallery, Paris
“Oh-Man Oh-Machine,” Tel Aviv University and new Academy Center of Art and Culture
curator: Daniel Landau
“Between the Lines,” Kunstpavillon im Alten Botanischen Garten, Munich, Germany
“Woven Consciousness,” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. curator: Irena Gordon
2013 “The Roof – Art Space,” in conjunction with Duisburg Museum, Duisburg, Germany
solo exhibition, “Montzi,” National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, curator:
Calin Stegerean
“the Ocean Garbage,” Gask Museum, Czech Republic, curator: Sorfova Jana
“Sky and Earth,” Urban Culture Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 Solo exhibition, “Loom | Father | Requiem,” Vernon Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic,
curator: Monica Burian
solo video-screening, “Ocean of Garbage,” Leumi Mani, out-wall-Building, Tel Aviv, Israel, curator: Esti Drori
“I’ve been There,” Water Tower Art Festival,” Sofia, Bulgaria, curator: Nia Pushkarova
“Transmission body,” DOCUMENTA 2012, Kassel, Germany
2011 “EcoPhobiaArt,” Drap-Art Festival MACBA – CCCB Museum, Barcelona, Spain
“Mapping,” part of “Markers 8,” collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale, Art Life
for the World Gallery, Venice
“Black,” Fusion Arts Museum, New York, NY, USA
2010 Solo exhibition “Ma’agalot,” Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
curator: Hana Kaplan
2009 “Culture Kiosk / Souvenir Art,” part of “Markers 7,” collateral event of the 53rd Venice
Biennale, ScalaMata Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy
“Inside Israel,” traveling exhibition celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary, Three Gorges
Museum, Chongqing, China
“City of Refuge,”, Tel Aviv Biennale, Jaffa Port, Jaffa, Israel
2008 ‘Ethiopia Here’ the Ethiopian community – permanent outdoor display, Petach-Tikva
“Traces of borders”, In between Two Cities”, The Museum of Arachnology, Jaffa, Israel
curators: Eldad Rafaeli & Eyal Landsman
2006 Solo exhibition, “Till Their Voices Stop,” The Gallery of the Geographic Photography
College, Tel Aviv, Israel, curator: Miki Kratsman
2002 “The Winner Love,” The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 “City Project,” The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1998 “Mount Meron,” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel curator: Giora Salmi
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
Robert Frank
Roni Ben-Ari photographer, who focuses on presenting social themes. Her photographs effectively penetrate the
viewers mind and remain in their memory, just as she successfully did in reporting journalistic social issues, for which
she was awarded Ziv Journalism Award
The photographs presented here are classic examples of her dealing with social issues documenting those who are at
the society’s margin, those who we do not see, those who are faded, transparent or muted and occasionally looked at
as social mirage
Her documentary work obtains an artistic dimension due to her ability to pronounce details and neutralize others to
abstraction, thus changes the objects’ identity
Roni’s work is challenging the collaboration between the photographer and the photographed. Her camera caresses
the photographed and cares for them softly. The picture talking is at arm’s reach so much so that the term “object”
becomes offending in relating to her work
… “In viewing her photographs, it is unclear who the object is and what is the background. Is the photographed the one
who asked to be photographed or is it the photographer who asked them to be photographed? Who exposes himself to
whom, and who serve who
Authority relationship is fundamental and the ABC of photography, especially, when dealing with what is permitted and
not permitted. From which distance is it acceptable to take a picture. What does the distance suggest in regard to the
action itself? Photograph narrates “taking” as the verb suggest “taking a picture”. In Roni Ben-Ari’s photography, there
is no “taking” it is an act of giving
It dominate to the point that she hears the voices of her objects, feels their needs and touches their textures and so
brings them closer to the viewer”. Miki Kratsman, Curator
