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Tamy Ben-Tor (born 1975) is an Israeli visual artist. ==Biography== Ben-Tor is one of a number of prominent female artists inventing characters and playing them herself, her work combines performance with photography and/or video. Included in this lineage of artists are Claude Cahun, Eleanor Antin, Martha Wilson, and Cindy Sherman.〔GalleristNY http://galleristny.com/2012/04/its-all-filth-and-disgusting-tamy-ben-tor-on-her-new-videos/ 〕 Her themes draw on the social observation of daily life and gender roles, but dig with more risky commentary into issues relating to Jewishness and Israel, her country of origin where she graduated from the School of Visual Theatre. Graduating then from Columbia University's MFA Program in 2006, she lives and works in New York and shows with Zach Feuer Gallery.〔Zachfeuer.com http://www.zachfeuer.com/artists/tamy-ben-tor/ 〕 She has had solo shows at the (Moderna Museet ), Stockholm; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; (Kunsthalle Winterthur ); and Cubitt Artists, London. Ben-Tor has also participated in a large number of group exhibitions including; (''The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989'' ) at ZKM, Karlsruhe;(''Video Art: Replay, Part III'' )Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia;(''Revolutions - Forms That Turn'' ) Biennale of Sydney; Manifesta (''7'' ); (''All About Humor'' ) Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; ''Combine Platter'' Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; (''...but i was only acting!'' ) Museo Reina Sofía; as well as the (PERFORMA 05 ) and PERFORMA 07 Biennials, New York. Ben-Tor's work belongs to a generation of artists that use absurdity and humor to comment on serious ideas. Underlying her outlandish caricatures and purposefully lowtech artifice of minimal make-up and settings, is a fusion of illusion and a stupid-smart whiplash arriving at unexpected views into the complexity of the human condition.〔NY Times.com http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/arts/design/tamy-ben-tor-new-performance-work.html?_r=0 〕 At the same time, Ben-Tor believes herself to be ahistorical in her own thinking. When asked about feminism's role in her work at a 2006 conference on the very topic, she claimed that she "doesn't think about feminism at all." She said "It is problematic to associate myself with any ideology," and referred to feminist positions as "weak." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tamy Ben-Tor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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