b.1997, Haifa, Palestine.
monabenyamin2@gmail.com
Education
2022– MA, Film and Television Studies, The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University
2016-2020 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2018 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York, student exchange program
Awards
2020 Artist Changemaker at Global Fund for Women grant
2020 Lauren and Mitchell Presser award for video art excellence
Group Exhibitions
2023 In the Shade of the Sun, The Mosaic Rooms, London. The group of participating artists was brought together by Bilnae’s – an adisciplinary platform that seeks to find new models for artists to redistribute resources and support one another in the production and circulation of work, initiated by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou Rahme.
2022 Commemorating Amnesia, Callirrhoë, Athens. Curated by: Eleni Riga & Olympia Tzortzi
2022 Like Dracula Dodging the Cross, Galerie Imane Farès, Paris. Curator: Line Ajan
2021 this is a love poem, EXILE, Vienna, Austria. Curator: Cindy Sissokho
2021 Temporary Truth, Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curator: pro tempore.art
2020 Viral Self Portraits (online exhibition), Contemporary Art Metelkova | +MSUM, Slovenia, LJU. Curators: Afiaty Riksa, Zdenka Badovinac, Ekaterina Degot, Tandazani Dhlakama, Galit Eilat, Charles Esche, iLiana Fokianaki, Boris Groys, Hou Hanru, Vít Havránek, Koyo Kouoh, Pablo Lafuente, Tammy Langtry, Maria Lind, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Bojana Piškur, Tjaša Pogačar, Igor Španjol, Mabel Tapia, Christine Tohme, Abhijan Toto, Jelena Vesić, Raluca Voinea, WHW
2019 Pixelated Peripheries, Arab Cultural Centre, Haifa. Curator: Lama Suleiman
Selected Screenings and Talks
2023 Waiting as A Form of Resistance Symposium, at Slade School of Art (UCL), London.
2023 The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York. Film Screening and conversation with Tali Keren as part of the public program Footnotes on the Fictive Present organized by Adam HajYahia.
2023 Hummus and Popcorn Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland. Film screening and Q&A.
2022 We don't want this song to end | REDCAT, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Zaina Bseiso. Film screening
2022 TASHWEESH Festival | L'Art Rue, Tunis / Beursschouwburg, Brussels / Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna. Film screening
2022 Festival Ciné Palestine, Paris. Film Screening and artist talk
2021 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Online film screening and panel
2021 Sheffield Doc/Fest – “Right on Time” Arts program. Online film screening 2021
2021 Palestine, IN-BETWEEN program hosted by the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University and LIFTA. Film screening and Panel. Participants: Mona Benyamin and Juna Suleiman; Moderated by Dr. Nadia Yaqoub
2021 Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil. Film screening and artist talk
2021 Dar El Nimer, Beirut. Film screening
2021 Arab Film Festival, Los Angeles, California. Film Screening
2021 Arab Cultural Centre, Haifa, Palestine. Film screening and artist talk
2021 Tishreen Association, Taybie, Palestine. Film screening and artist talk
2021 Dazibao Art, Session 28 Imagining a Future: Contemporary Images and Words of Palestine. Online conversation with Ali El-Darsa, Karim Kattan, Razan Al-Salah, and Mona Benyamin
2021 ArteEast – Ib’atli Gawab / Signed, Sealed, Delivered program. Curated by Line Ajan and Featuring works by Mona Benyamin, Emily Jacir, Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Siav Bedirxan, and Akram Zaatari. Online screening and artist talk
2021 For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women program hosted by Another Gaze/Another Screen. Online film screening 2021 SHASHA, online streaming service initiated by Habibi Collective. Film screening
2021 Reel Palestine Film Festival 7th Edition, Dubai. Film screening
Workshops and Residencies
2023 Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations at T:>Works, Singapore. Artistic Director: Keng Sen Ong
2019 BerlinAir residency initiated by Berlin Medienboard Brandenburg and Filmlab Palestine
2019 Young Curators Academy initiated by Shermin Langhoff and Keng Sen Ong, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin
Collections