Irit Batsry (born 1957) is an Israeli-American visual and installation artist.

Biography

Batsry graduated from the

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( he, בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldes ...

in fine art in 1982. She moved to

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, and became an instructor and on-line editor for ''Film/Video Arts''. Through her career she has produced experimental videos and installations that have been shown around the world including the

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in Washington D.C., The

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in Montreal, the Musee de Arte in Rio de Janeiro and the

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in Madrid. Her work is in the collections of The

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, and The

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of American Art, among others. Batsry has received numerous awards, notably the Bucksbaum Award for her work shown at the Whitney Museum's Biennial Exhibition in 2002. She has lived and worked in New York since 1983. Batsry's work displays ephemeral transitory images that are difficult to process rationally. Her interest in the notion of perception became more pronounced in the early 1990s when she studied the work of

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, in particular his vision disorder that caused a near constant blurring of images. She produced several works inspired by Fuller including "A Simple Case of Vision" and "Of Persistence of Absence." Each examined the idea of distortion and perception through video and space.

Awards

*2002 Bucksbaum Award *1992

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*1996, 2001 Grand Prix Video de Création of the Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris *New York Fine Arts Foundation Fellow *Jerome Foundation Fellow *1990, 1995 Grand Prix at Locarno *1994, 2001 First Prize at Vigo International Video Festival *1991 Best International Artistic Contribution at Cadiz *1989 First Prize at the Australian Video Festival *1989 First prize at the San Francisco Poetry Film Festival

Works

* "Slightly less than a saint" (1982) * trilogy "Passage to utopia" ** “Stories from the old ruin” (1986), VHS. ** “Leaving the old ruin" (1989) ** “Traces of a presence to come" (1993), VHS. * “Of persistence of absence” (1991) * “A Simple Case of vision”(1991) * “These Are Not my Images (neither there nor here)” (2000), VHS. * "Beach at Nightfall", 2009

References

External links

Artist's website
''Artnet'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Batsry, Irit 1957 births Living people 20th-century women artists American video artists Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni Israeli expatriates in the United States Israeli Jews People from Ramat Gan