TAMY BEN-TOR b. 1975, Jerusalem Lives and works in New York, NY Education MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY 2006 The School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel Solo Exhibitions and Performances 2008 Tamy Ben-Tor, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Tamy Ben-Tor, 101 Gallery, part of the Sequences Art Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland Brown Gallery, London, United Kingdom Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY The Kitchen, New York, NY (performance) 2007 1st at Moderna, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo show and performance) PERFORMA 07, New York, NY (performance) 2006 World Wide Boxing, Miami, FL Exploration in the Domain of Idiocy, Cubitt, London, UK (solo show and performance) Exploration in the Domain of Idiocy, Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA Figures of Excess, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (performance) All About Humor Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan (performance) 2005 Exploration in the Domain of Idiocy, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY (solo show and performance) PERFORMA 05, Salon 94, New York, NY (performance) Electroyiddish, part of Greater New York 2, PS1/MoMA, Queens, NY (performance) 2004 The Tamy Ben-Tor Show, Electroyiddish, Tourism, and suspicious tourists, various clubs, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel (performance) 2003 Electroyiddish and Popaganda, Hugo Boss fall/winter party, Berlin, Germany (performance) Electroyiddish, HEEB party, Jüdische Kulturtage, Berlin, Germany (performance) The Tamy Ben-Tor Show, Electroyiddish, Tourism, and suspicious tourists, various clubs, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel (performance) Mazda Begelman, Public Life, London, England 2002 Tamy Ben-Tor Show, Tmuna Theatre, Tel-Aviv, Israel (performance) The Tamy Ben-Tor Show, Chashama Theatre, New York, NY (performance) Bublitchki Beigelach, Hazira, Jerusalem, Israel (performance) Harriet Phillis Stein, Women’s Rights Evening, Tel-Aviv, Israel (performance) 2001 The Tamy Ben-Tor Show, Hazira Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel (performance) The Tamy Ben-Tor Show, Public Life, London, England (performance) The International Festival of Puppets, Charleville-Mézières, France (performance) Lutke 3rd International Puppet festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia (performance) PIF 2000, Puppet festival, Zagreb, Croatia (performance) The Talent Show and The Talk Show, collaboration with Anat Ben-David, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel (performance) Harriet Phillis Stein, Claude Lanzmann’s life achievement award ceremony, Jerusalem, Israel (performance) Group Exhibitions and Screenings 2008 Alternating Beats, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI As Others See Us, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia A New High in Getting Low, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY Artist in Resignation, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Manifesta 7, Trentino Alto Adige / Südtirol, Italy The New Absurdists, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR VIDEOCRACY, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY A Lower World: Excesses and Extremes in Film and Video, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada 2007 Bad Joke Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia Ceci n’est pas…  Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY Beings and Doings British Council Gallery, New Delhi, India Our Land is our land Artists’ Cinema, Seattle, WA 2006 Yanko Dada Museum, Israel Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany The Artist’s Cinema screening, Frieze Art Fair, London UK Combine Platter Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Smile Machines, Transmediale.06, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany Neo  Sincerity - The difference between the comic and the cosmic is a single letter, Apex Art, New York, NY Video Salon 5, Brooklyn, NY ...but I was only acting!, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Humor Me, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KS 2005 Day Labor, PS1/MoMA, Queens, NY Light Opts: A Selection, LightBox, Los Angeles 1889 (Braunau, Austria) – 1945 (Berlin, Germany), Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel First Look Exhibition, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY 2004 VideoZone2, Second International Biennale For Video Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Auschwitz-Prozeß 4Ks 2-63 Frankfurt am Main, Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Hitler- the horror and the horrah, Vienna Jewish film week, Vienna, Austria 2003 Hitler- the horror and the horrah, Jewish film festival, Jerusalem, Israel Women Talk about Hitler, Jewish film festival, Berlin, Germany The Love of Power, I.C.A., London, England Wonder Years, Berlin, Germany 2001 Aco Festival, Aco, Israel Awards 2008 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York Art Matters Foundation, New York Bibliography “Artists’ Choice: Top 100 Galleries.” Flash Art January-February, 2008. 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