Tamy Ben-Tor


Brown is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent video work by Tamy Ben-Tor. This will be her first exhibition with the gallery.

Ben-Tor states: “My characters are embodiments of non-existing entities. Sometimes they mirror my mind’s demons and sometimes I watch them unfold before me. I find it necessary to escape into another universe in which I am not myself and language isn’t used to deliver information. Nationalities and races are embodied in language and people’s identities are revealed through speech. The characters I portray are not real. However they are specific. I don’t speak about politics; I use them to invoke feeling just as I speak in different languages in order to reach a nonsensical outcome. This is because it is only through the specific and descriptive that a tension with the abstract can be formed.”

Tamy Ben-Tor was born in Israel and currently lives and works in New York, New York. Past solo exhibitions include Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Cubitt, London; and Zach Feuer Gallery, New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Mori Museum, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Reina Sofia, Madrid; as well as the PERFORMA 05 and PERFORMA 07 Biennials, New York. She will have an upcoming exhibition at the Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland, and will participate in the next Bienniale of Sydney in Australia and Manifesta 7 in Trentino Alto Adige, Italy this summer. Ben-Tor received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2006.