Hilla Ben Ari

Hilla Ben Ari was born in 1972 on Kibbutz Yagur. Her works deal with the female body and the tension between the individual and the collective. In 2011 she was first invited to work at the Jerusalem Print Workshop. Since then, she has been creating there in a variety of printing techniques, including woodcutting, etching and screenprint. Her works can be found among the collections of the Israel Museum; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Petah Tikva Museum of Art; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; and others.

Education
1995-1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2003 Advanced Studies Program in fine Art, Kalisher College, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2003-2006 Masters degree in Poetics and Comparative Literature, Tel- Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2012-2013 Alma – Home for Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Awards And Prizes (selection)
2012 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Culture and Sport
2012 Artist’s Grant Recipient
2013 Grant, Ostrovsky Family Found
2013 Artists-in-residence, Museum of Contemporary Art (Macro), Rome, Italy
2016 The Jacob Pins Award for an Israeli Printmaking Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2016 Prize for a senior Video Artist, Ministry of Culture and Sport
2017 Grant, Asylum Arts, New York, USA
2020 Career Aevelopment Program (ACDP) Program, Artis, New York, USA
2020 Award, The Council of Art and Culture at the National Lottery

Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2012 ‘Lacuna’, Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2013 ‘Lucretia’, Artists in Residence #4, Macro Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy
2014 ‘The Keystone’, Dana Gallery, Yad Mordechai
2015 ‘Naamah: A Tribute to Nahum Benari’, Museum of Art Ein Harod
2015 ‘Tensioni E-Statiche’, with Alice Cattaneo, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
2016 ‘Phoneme’, Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2017 ‘Rethinking Broken Lines: A Tribute to Heda Oren’, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2019 ‘Na’amah’ – A Tribute to Nahum Benari”, Gary R. Libby Gallery, University of Florida​, FL, USA

Group Exhibition (selection in the field of printmaking)
2012 Crimson Peels, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2014 Workshop Myth: Four Decades. Body, Place, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2016 The Black Art, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2017 In the Body of the Wood: Winners of the Jacob Pins Prize for an Israeli Graphic Artist, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 Contemporary Local Print, Jerusalem
2018 The Latest: New Works from the Prints and Drawings Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2020 Cut in Wood, City Gallery, Kfar Saba
2020 As She Transform, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem