Keren Anavy

Keren Anavy is a New York-based multimedia visual artist, working in drawing, painting, installation, and performance. A member of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the EFA Studio Program. Born in Israel and moved to New York in late 2015, her art is about the dynamic relationships between nature, culture and site.
Anavy was selected to be Artist in Residence in 2021 at Guild Hall of East Hampton, New York and at Marble House Project, Dorset, Vermont. She participated as a Mentor at New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), IAP, 2020, and was a Mentee fellow in 2017. Anavy has exhibited widely in solo and two-person exhibitions including solo exhibitions at the Sunroom Project-Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York. The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Haifa Museum of Art, both in Israel. Her interdisciplinary performances showed at Queens Museum, New York, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, New York City among other venues in greater New York.

Two-person exhibitions include SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018, New York, Autonomous University of Hidalgo State, Pachuca, Mexico, The Gallery of the Cultural Institute Mexico-Israel, Mexico City and video projections at Times Square Billboards by ZAZ10TS, New York.

Group exhibitions include Walsh Gallery NJ, Neumeraki Projects, New York, The Pratt Institute New York, Flux Factory, New York, The Korean Cultural Center, New York, NARS Foundation Gallery, New York, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel and The 2nd International Biennale of Painting and Sculpture, Split, Croatia among others.

Anavy is a recipient of the Asylum Arts, New York Grant (2017-18). Residencies include Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York (2019), The Studios at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts (2019), AIRIE Everglades, National Park, Florida (2018), The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation (2015-16) among others.

Anavy received her MFA from Haifa University, Israel, and her BA in Art History from Tel Aviv University, Israel. She graduated at Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel. She is Artistic Director New York at Radio28, an international cultural exchange program located in Mexico City.

Since moving to New York she has written about art & culture in New York and North America at Basis for art and culture Magazine (Hebrew).

Website: www.kerenanavy.com Instagram: @kerenanavy