Mona Benyamin is an audio-visual artist, filmmaker, and cellist. Her works explore the absurdity of life under occupation, delving into themes of repetition, trauma, and temporal awareness. Her video works are known for appropriating formats from mass and popular media, often manipulating their devices and structures to challenge the rigid boundaries between truth and fiction. She lives and works between Haifa and the Hudson Valley, New York.
monabenyamin2@gmail.com
Upcoming
Like Clockwork, Triangle-Astérides, May 20-Sept 27, 2026 (solo)
You must change your life, 16th Gwangju Biennial, Sept 5-Nov 15, 2026
Education
2024-2026 MA, Human Rights and the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2022-2023 MA, Film Studies, 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
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