Tali Keren is a multidisciplinary artist and educator born in Jerusalem and based in Brooklyn. Her performances, videos, and installations center on the formation of political ideology, historical mythologies, and the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. Through poetic interventions into archival sources, legislative documents, and the creation of immersive documentary installations, Keren seeks to unsettle foundational national myths. Her practice is grounded in collaborations and cross-disciplinary dialogue with activists, scholars, and artists as a way to forge equitable collectivities and political imaginaries.
Keren’s recent solo and collaborative exhibitions include the Queens Museum, New York;Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Eyebeam, New York; the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv; Ludlow 38, MINI Goethe Institute, New York; and James Gallery at CUNY Graduate Center, New York (forthcoming). Group shows and performances include Tallinn Photomonth Biennale; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; the Museum of the Moving Image, New York; New York; Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; the Jewish Museum, New York; Museums Quartier, Vienna; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; and on the screens of Times Square as part of Time Square’s Arts Midnight Moment. Her work has been featured in ArtForum, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vice, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, and WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show. Keren received her BFA in 2009 from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and an MFA from Columbia University, in New York in 2016. She has been an artist in residence at Art-Port, Tel Aviv, ISCP, NARS Foundation, BRICworkspace, and the Queens Museum. Keren is currently an artist-in-residence at ISCP, NYC and with collaborator Alex Strada at the Wexner Center for the Art’s Department for Learning and Public Practice in OH.
