Keren Benbenisty was born and raised in Israel (1977) and moved to Paris in 1998. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2004, and attended California Institute of the Arts (Cal’Arts) as an international exchange scholar. Benbenisty has been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2009); ISCP – The International Studio & Curatorial Program , Brooklyn (2011); Residency Unlimited (2016); Arts Maebashi , Japan (2017). She is currently a participating artist at Open Sessions program at the Drawing Center in New York. Recent exhibitions include Petach Tikva Museum, Israel; A.I.R gallery, New York ; CUNY Graduate Center for Humanities in New York City; Tel-Aviv Museum of Art; The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery in Tel-Aviv; The Artist House in Jerusalem; Francesca Antonini Gallery in Rome and Human Resources in Los Angeles. Keren Benbenisty is living and working in Manhattan and her studio is located at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts .