Ben Hagari
Ben Hagari was born in Tel Aviv in 1981. He lives and works in NYC. His work has been shown internationally including solo exhibitions at The Rose Art Museum, MA, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Flora Ars+Natura in Bogotá. Selected group exhibitions include the SculptureCenter in New York as part of their In Practice survey of contemporary sculpture, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, KIT in Düsseldorf, and The Israel Museum, among others. Hagari received awards and fellowships including Israel Ministry of Culture Prize in Art, The Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, The David Berg Foundation Fellowship at Columbia University and The Chami Fruchter Award for an Emerging Video Artist. He has attended several residency programs, including LMCC residency Process Space at Governors Island, NY, Fountainhead Residency in Miami and the Bronner Residency in Düsseldorf. Hagari received a BEd.F.A from Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel (2008) and an MFA from Columbia University, New York (2014).
For over a decade Ben Hagari has worked collaboratively to create experimental films, video installations, video-sculptures, kinetic environments, animations, photographs, and prints. His work often employs optical illusions and “persistence of vision” (visuality after the image ceases) in order to understand the origins of moving images and technologies’ effects on perception.
Website: www.benhagari.com
About Face | September 1-20, 2020
Ben Hagari’s latest project with ZAZ10TS is About Face, which will kick off the ZAZ Corner new concept “In Between” in September, 2020.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/thebacksideofben
Yale School of Art & School of Visual Arts | Dec 15, 2021
Organized by Ben Hagari, a series of students' video and animation works will be showcased on the 10 Times Square Champs Billboard & on ZAZ Corner Billboard for the day. Created by students from Principles of Animation, Yale School of Art and Film and Video Installation, MFA in Photo/Video, School of Visual Arts in New York.
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Sight Site | Dec 18-20, 2020
Organized by Ben Hagari, a series of students' video and animation works will be showcased on the 10 Times Square Billboard and will concurrently be projected on the Gallery Wall in the lobby 10 Times Square. The program explores the relationship between site and sight through animation and video works that employ optical illusions, metamorphosis, shadows and light. Created by students from Principles of Animation, Yale School of Art and Film and Video Installation, MFA in Photo/Video, School of Visual Arts in New York.
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PROJECTS WITH ZAZ10TS
Ben Hagari’s films and video installations are tragicomedies that unfold in absurdist environments. In his films, environment and inhabitant are mutually constitutive; domestic spaces that function both as a prison and a refuge. Hagari’s work dissolves the distinction between theatrical façade and backstage by opening into spaces where magic, subterfuge, and poetry all collide.
ZAZ Corner: Through a Balcony | June 1, 2020
10 Times Square, Corner of 7th Ave. and 41st Street
“Potter’s Will” Video on Billboard
Video Documentation of Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection, click here
ZAZ Corner | June 10, 2020
10 Times Square, Corner of 7th Ave. and 41st Street
“Freedom for Us” Video on Billboard
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ZAZ Corner | March 15, 2020
10 Times Square, Corner of 7th Ave. and 41st Street
“Invert” Video Billboard
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ZAZ Corner | Feb 01, 2020
10 Times Square, Corner of 7th Ave. and 41st Street
24:7 Billboard Video
10 Times Square | Dec 4, 2017 - Jan 4, 2018
“Fresh” Video on Billboard
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Garment District 15th Art Festival: Video Art
10 Times Square | Oct 18-20, 2018
“Fresh” Video on Billboard
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Seven Dreams | Organized by Ben Hagari
Seven Dreams presents seven videos created by students from the MFA in Photo, Video and Related Media at The School of Visual Arts. The short videos (excerpts from longer works) can be seen as personal dreams on screen; perception of inner and outer worlds; journeys and dances in cityscape.