Bio

Ofri Cnaani (born in Israel, 1975) lives in New York and works in Video and
Large-scale Video Installations as well as drawing. Cnaaniʼs work blurs the
boundaries between a constructed reality and reality itself and explore notions
of domination, feminine bodily experiences, and spatial awareness by
analyzing their formal dimensions within social and psychological spheres.

Ofri Cnaani graduated from Hunter Collegeʼs MFA studio program in 2004. She is currently completing a largescale commission to create 10 site-specific video installations at 10 museums of contemporary art in Italy’s Lombardy region. Cnaani is a Six Points Fellow and was twice the winner of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation award. One-person exhibitions include: Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Andrea Meislin Gallery; NYC, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv; Pack Gallery, Milan; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; Herzlyia Museum of Art, Israel. Group exhibitions include: Moscow Biennial, The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arnolfini Foundation Museum, Bristol, UK; Tel Aviv Museum; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Prague Triennale among many others.