Ruth Patir

Ruth Patir is a media artist who fuses documentary with computer-generated imagery in a quest to expand the possibilities of realism. Her works often begin with the artist’s autobiography, and gradually open up to address larger societal issues, such as the politics of gender, technology, and the hidden mechanisms of power. Ruth received her MFA in New Genres from Columbia University in New York (2015) and her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2011) where she is also currently a professor teaching in the Screen Based Arts department. Currently she is the artist in the Israeli Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. Her work has also been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of modern art; the Petach Tikva Museum of Art; the Anthology Film Archive in New York; the Flux Factory, New York, and more. Patir’s work is part of institutional collections such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kadist Collection; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv.