TAMY BEN-TOR b. 1975, Jerusalem Lives and works in New York, NY Education 2006 MFA Columbia University School of the Arts 1998-2001 The School of Visual Theature, Jerusalem, Israel Solo Exhibitions 2008 Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (upcoming) Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming) Brown Gallery, London, United Kingdom (upcoming) 2007 1st at Moderna, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden The Moore Space, Miami, FL 2006 World Wide Boxing, Miami, FL "Exploration in the Domain of Idiocy", Cubitt, London, UK "Exploration in the Domain of Idiocy", Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA 2005 "Exploration in the Domain of Idiocy" (solo exhibition), Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), New York, NY 2004 The Tamy Ben-Tor Show", "Electroyiddish", "Tourism", and "suspicious tourists", various clubs, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel 2003 "Electroyiddish and Popaganda", Hugo Boss fall/winter party, Berlin, Germany "Electroyiddish", HEEB party, judishe culture tag, Berlin, Germany "The Tamy Ben-Tor Show", "Electroyiddish", "Tourism", and "suspicious tourists", various clubs, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel 2002 "Tamy Ben-Tor Show", Tmuna theature, Tel-Aviv, Israel "The Tamy Ben-Tor Show", Chashama Theatre, New York, NY 2001 "The Tamy Ben-Tor Show", Hazira Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel "The Tamy Ben-Tor Show, Public Life, London, England Group Exhibitions, Performances, and Screenings 2008 Manifesta 7, Trentino Alto Adige / Südtirol, Italy “A New High in Getting Low” John Connelly Presents, New York, NY “Artist in Resignation”, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia 2007 "Bad Joke" Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia PERFORMA 07, New York, NY "Ceci n'est pas..." Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY "Beings and Doings" British Council Gallery, New Delhi, India "Our Land is our land" Artists' Cinema, Seattle, WA 2006 "Figures of Excess" Beursschouwburg, Brussels "All About Humor" Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan Yanko Dada Museum, Israel Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany The Artist's Cinema screening, Frieze Art Fair, London UK "Combine Platter" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "Smile Machines",Transmediale.06, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany "Neo  Sincerity- The difference between the comic and the cosmic is a single letter" Apex Art, New York, NY Video Salon 5, Brooklyn, NY "…but I was only acting!", Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain "Humor Me", Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KS 2005 "Day Labor", PS1/MoMA, Queens, NY "Light Opts: A Selection", LightBox, Los Angeles "1889 (Braunau, Austria) – 1945 (Berlin, Germany)", Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel "Greater New York 2", PS1/MoMA, Queens, NY "Performa 2005", Salon 94, New York, NY "First Look Exhibition", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY 2004 "VideoZone2", Second International Biennale For Video Art, Tel Aviv, Israel "Aushwitz Proces", Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany "Hitler- the horror and the horrah", Vienna Jewish film week, Vienna, Austria 2003 "Hitler- the horror and the horrah", Jewish film festival, Jerusalem, Israel "Women Talk about Hitler", Jewish film festival, Berlin, Germany "The Love of Power", I.C.A., London, England "Wonder Years", Berlin, Germany "Mazda Begelman", Public Life, London, England 2002 "Bublitchki Beigelach", Hazira, Jerusalem, Israel "Harriet Phillis Stein", Women's Rights Evening, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2001 The International Festival of Puppets, Charleville-Meziere, France "The Talent Show" and "The Talk Show", collaboration with Anat Ben-David, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel "Harriet Phillis Stein", Claud Lanzman's life achievement award ceremony, Jerusalem, Israel "Lutke" puppet festival, Ljublijana, Slovania "PIF 2000", puppet festival, Zagreb, Croatia "Aco Festival", Aco, Israel Bibliography Bleyer, Jennifer. "Performance Anxiety: Tamy Ben-Tor's Theature of the Absurd", HEEB Magazine, 2003 Chasnoff, Ariel. "The many faces of Tamy Ben-Tur", The Jerusalem Post, December 13, 2001 Choi, Amy S., "Ben-Tor's 'Exotica' Elicits Laughter", artinfo.com, November 9, 2005. Cotter, Holland. "Art is Brief. You Just Have to be There." New York Times 9 Nov 2007: E31, 44. Fallon, Roberta and Libby Rosof. "Time Out for Chelsea", fallonandrosof.com, December 12, 2005. Feldman, Suzanne. "Tamy Ben-Tor" Modern Painters, February 2006. Fineman, Mia. "Tamy Ben-Tor: Slate's artist of the month", slate.com, December 1, 2005. Kessler, Sarah. "Tamy Ben-Tor: Exploration in the Domain of Idiocy", Artkrush, December 28, 2005. Kolhatkar, Sheelah. "The Life of Leisure", The New York Observer, January 16, 2006. p. 3 Kraft, Jessica. "Tamy Ben-Tor: Explorations In th Domain of Idocy" Contemporary June-Sept 2006:pp73-74 Lieberman, Rhona. "Female Trouble", artforum.com, January 12, 2006. Lowenstein, Katie. "Wigging Out", Time Out New York, November 17 - 23. p 92 Johnson, Ken. "Tamy Ben-Tor", The New York Times, December 30, 2005. p E39. Newhouse, Alana. "Trend Setters: From Führer to Furor." ARTnews Sep. 2007: 132-133. Ollman, Leah. "There's a big bite to her humor" LA Times, April 7, 2006. p. E20. Pitchon, Avi. "Global Ear: Tel-Aviv", The Wire, 2004 Robinson, Walter. "Artnet News", artnet.com, January 17, 2006. Saltz, Jerry "Best of 2007: Art" New York, December 17, 2007. Saltz, Jerry. "Hell Bent, A Fatawa of Her Own", The Village Voice, November 21, 2005. Saltz, Jerry. "Lesser New York", Village Voice, March 30 - April 5, 2005. Saltz, Jerry. "Hellraisers: Can Art Deliver Us From Evil?" Modern Painters, April 2006: pp.30-31 Saltz, Jerry. "Moving Arts" Village Voice, January 4, 2007 Schor, Mira. "She Demon Spawn from Hell", M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online, January 13, 2006. Singer, Debra. "First Take: Debra Singer on Tamy Ben-Tor", Artforum, January 2006. pp 192-193 Smith, Roberta. "Performance Gets Its Biennial", The New York Times, November 4, 2005. p. E33-39 Taylor, Mary Blair. "Tamy Ben-Tor: Exploration in the Domain of Idiocy" Bidoun, Spring/Summer 2006, pg 136. Westcott, James. "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Roles of Tamy Ben-Tor", artinfo.com, December 14, 2005. Wilson, Michael. "Feeling the Love", artforum.com, November 6, 2005.