Aya Ben Ron

Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel

1967 Haifa, Israel

FIELD HOSPITAL X FOR SOCIAL ILLS

2019 – Today Founder, Artistic Director

FHX operated in:
2022 FIELD HOSPITAL X, Muza Eretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv
2020-21 FIELD HOSPITAL X ONLINE – Streamings and zoom meetings during Covid-19
2019 2019 FIELD HOSPITAL X, Israeli Pavillion, The 58th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Italy

Curator: Avi Lubin, Producer: Miki Gov

Academic Employment

2023 – Today | Head of Fine Art Department, School of Arts – Haifa University

2021 – Today | The Art Based Research (ABR)Track in the Visual Literacy Studies Program (M.Ed) Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv
2016 – Today | Photographic Communications – Hadassa Academic Collage, Jerusalem
2007 – Today | The School of The Arts – Haifa University
2017 – 2018 | Screen Based Arts – Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2009 – 2010 | Seminar Oranim, Kiriat Amal
2006 – 2010 | The School of Art – Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba
2004 – 2007 | Kalisher School of Art – Technology Teachers Training College, Tel Aviv
2004 – 2005 | Head of Digital Media Department, Kalisher school of Art – Technology Teachers Training College, Tel Avi

Solo Exhibitions

2022 FIELD HOSPITAL X, Muza, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (Curator: Avi Lubin)
2020-2021 FHX ONLINE – Live Streamings & Zoom meetings during Covid-19 (Curator: Avi Lubin)
2019 FIELD HOSPITAL X, The Israeli Pavilion, The 58th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Italy (Curator: Avi Lubin)
2018 FIRST AID STATION, Permanent Exhibition, The Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem (Curators: Rinat Edelestein & Lee He Shulov)
2015 THE LAST VOYAGE TO CYTHERA, Art Gallery, Hadassa Academic Collage, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Judith Guetta)
2015 THE LAST VOYAGE TO CYTHERA, Front, Online Project > front.ayabenron.com
2013 ALL IS WELL, Máxima Medisch Centrum/Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2012 RESCUE, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Aya Miron)
2012 FIRST AID STATION, art:gwangju:12, Korea (presented by Aando Fine Art)
2012 FIRST AID STATION – A Voyage to Cythera, AANDO FINE ART, Berlin, Germany
2012 VOYAGE TO CYTHERA, Berlin Museum of Medical History, Berlin, Germany (Curators: Thomas Schnalke, Galit Eilat)
2010 RELIEF, Art Futures/ART HK 10, Hong Kong (presented by Aando Fine Art)
2010 SHIFT, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
2010 SHIFT, Noga Star Project, Parasite/Diana Dallal, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 MARGALITH, Arco 07 Projects, Madrid, Spain (presented by Chelouche Gallery)
2007 MARGALITH, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 STILL UNDER TREATMENT, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2002 HANGING, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan (Curator: Tak Cheung Lau)
2001 PARTICLE 1, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel (Curator: Dalia Levin)
2001 HANGING, The Wellcome Trust Building, London, UK (Curator: Sara Wang)
2000 STRIPS, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, USA
1998 I TOLD YOU SO, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel (Curator: Vered Maimon)
1998 SIX MOVING IMAGES, Meimad Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Yoram Kopermintz)
1998 SIX MOVING IMAGES, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel (Curator: Surin Heller)
1995 NEW WORKS, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994 WELL, LET’S GET RID OF IT, Borochov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Ilana Tenenbaum)
1993 CROWNS, Installation at The Faculty of Medicine, School of Dentistry, Hadassah Ein Carem, Jerusalem, Israel

Group Exhibitions / Screenings

2022 Brain(s), CCCB: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, (Curated by Ricard Solé and by Emily Sargent)
2022 DOFEK IRONI, Nissan Nativ Building, Jerusalem Arts Festival (Artistic director: Brachi Lifshitz)
2021 THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, ACAC Arad (Curators: Lea Abir, Bar Yerushalmi)
2021 THE WAY WE SURVIVE, Petach-Tikva Museum (Curator: Irena Gordon)
2020 DO YOU CARE? (Field Hospital X), OPEN SKIES, Loving Art Making art, Habima Theatre, Tel Aviv (Curator: Avi Lubin)
2020 WAITING ROOM – WOMEN HEALERS AND PATIENTS ON THE PERIPHERY OF MEDICINE, Közkincs Library, The Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2019 NURSE, NURSE,  Manofim (main exhibition), Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem
(Curators: Rinat Edelestein & Lee He Shulov)
2019 INTERIOR, (Screening night) P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 PROPERTIES, Manofim (main exhibition), The Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem
(Curators: Rinat Edelestein & Lee He Shulov)
2018 PYRAMIDA PLATFORM – A multi-disciplinary arts and architectural event, The Railway Museum, Haifa, Israel (Curator: Galia Bar-Or)
2018 NO PASARAN – The Spanish Civil War, 80 years on, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel
(Curator: Aril Kilemnik)
2018 NO MORE REALITY, Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 ME TOO, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Sari Golan)
2018 CONTEMPORARY ARABESQUE, The Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Tamar Gispan-Greenberg)
2017 WE HEREBY DECLARE, PRIZES IN ART FROM Ministry of Culture and Sports, MoBY Museums of Bat-Yam, Israel (Curator: Joshua Simon)
2017 ON THE ROAD, Artists House TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Dalia Danon & Nir Harmat)
2016 NO BODY (Making-Of), Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
2016 BUSAN BIENNALE, Busan, Korea (Curator: Yun Cheagab)
2016 HISUF, (Screening night) P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 TRACING THE EDGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, The Wellcome Trust Gallery, London, UK (Curator: Emily Sargent)
2015 TIME CAPSULE, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel (Curator: Udi Edelman)
2015 A MESA, À Mesa – Narrativas sobre o corpo tecnológico, imaginado e morto, Goethe-Institut em cooperação com o Sesc São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (Hannah Hurtzig)
2015 THE LAST VOYAGE TO CYTHERA, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
2014 MIRRORING – DRAWINGS, AANDO FINE ART, Berlin, Germany
2014 SAND-NESS, Contemporary by Golconda, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Liav Mizrahi)
2014 HELA- Forms of Human Existence, Hamidrasha-Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curators: Daniel Landau & Udi Edelman)
2014 RISE AGAINST,Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel (Curators: Arik Kilemnik & Irena Gordon)
2013 OUT OF BODY – Fragmentation in Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Tanya Sirakovich)
2013 BLACKOUT, LOOK/13 – Exhibition Research Centre, Art and Design Academy, Liverpool, UK (Imogen Stidworthy)
2012 GREAT WIDE OPEN: New and Old in the Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2012 MELANCHOLY IN PROGRESS, The 3rd  Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 TELL ME SOMETHING, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
2012 BOILING BLOOD, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Irena Gordon)
2012 IT DOESN’T ALWAYS HAVE TO BE BEAUTIFUL UNLESS IT’S BEAUTIFUL, Kosovo Art Gallery, Kosovo (Curators:Galit Eilat & Charles Esche)
2012 SIYAH/WHITE, CDA-Projects, Istanbul, Turkey (Curator: Basak Senova)
2012 SHIFT, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Israel
2011 SOUVENIRS – Manofim (main exhibition), Tower of David, Museum of the History of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
2011 DER PATIENT, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder, Graz, Austria
2011 CONTEMPORARY ART CIRCLING THE MANDALA, The Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Canada
(Curator:Evelyn Tauben)
2011 ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, Yaffo 23, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Maayan Amir)
2011 BLACK AND WHITE, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
(Curators: Galit Eilat, Łukasz Ronduda)
2011 DIE UNTOTEN: Life Sciences & Pulp Fiction, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany (Hannah Hurtzig)
2011 LIFE: A User’s Manual, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Aya Miron)
2011 LEXICON FOR POLITICAL THEORY, Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2010 ON AGING, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 BAKARAT NEZAKIM (Screening night), Mobi, Bat-Yam Museum, Israel
2009 METAPHORS OF UN/REAL, Animamix Biennial 2009–2010, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2009 DARKSIDE II: Photographic Power and Violence, Disease, and Death Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (Curator: Urs Stahel)
2009 BLACK MARKET for Useful Knowledge & Non-Knowledge No.12, The Jewish-Arabic Center in Jaffa, Jaffa, Israel (Hannah Hurtzig)
2009 STANDARD DEVIATION, The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Maayan Shelef)
2009 PRIZES IN ART FROM Ministry of Culture and Sports, The Ein Harod Museum, Ein Harod, Israel
2009 HOMEPAGE, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 EUROPE, EUROPE, Mercaz Hanzaha, Tivon, Israel
2008 MEMO, Art-TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Ohad Fishof)
2008 HOMESICK HOME, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (Curators: Efi & Amir)
2008 INTERVENE! INTERRUPT! Rethinking Art as Social Practice, The University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
2008 TWISTED REALITY, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel (Curator: Irena Gordon & Yoav Raban)
2008 THE HOMES OF OTHERS: Video Art and Photography by Contemporary Israeli Artists, Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Aya Miron)
2008 ETCHINGS, SCRATCHES AND SCARS: Changing Representations of the Israeli Soldier, Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel (Curator: Sigal Barkai)
2007 RESHAMIM 3, The Israeli Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel
2007 KNOCKING ON THE DOOR, The International Incheon Women Artist’s Biennale, Incheon, South Korea
2007 SCHMERZ, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (Annemarie Hürlimann, Daniel Tyradellis, Eugen Blume, Thomas Schnalke)
2007 ON A SMALL SCALE, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 COMO VIVER JUNTO, Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2006 STILL UNDER TREATMENT (2) with Nadav Wiesmann, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 STILL UNDER TREATMENT, International Competition, Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
2006 A RICH SEAM, Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel (Curator: Hagai Segev)
2006 IN BETWEEN PLACES: New Art From Israel, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2006 ILLNESS REPORT, The Art Gallery, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva,Israel
2006 PRIZES IN ART FROM Ministry of Culture and Sports, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 FAR AND AWAY: The Fantasy of Japan in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Mira Lapidot)
2005 BETWEEN MAN & PLACE, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea (Curators:Romy Achituv & Jung Yunah)
2005 LOOP VIDEO ART, Barcelona, Spain
2005 RHYTHMOS, The Art Gallery, Tamra, Israel
2005 WOUNDS AND BANDAGING, Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Umm el-Fahem, Israel
2005 UNCERTAINTY, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 WHY DON’T YOU SAY IT?, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel (Curator: Michal Heiman)
2005 TO BE LOOKED AT, CLOSE TO, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod, Israel (Curator: Yona Fisher)
2004 DEATH OF ROMANCE, 17–21 Ganton Street, London, UK (Matthew Poole)
2004 GEWALT, Loushy Art & Edition, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Suhail Malik)
2003 HILCHOT SHCHENIM, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
2003 UTOPIA, Beit Hagefen, Arab-Jewish Center, Haifa, Israel
2003 OVERCRAFT: Obsession, Decoration and Biting Beauty, The Art Galley, University of Haifa & Bei Ha’omanim,
Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman)
2002 PRIZES IN ART FROM Ministry of Culture and Sports, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2002 THE WATER PARTING, The Turkish Hamam, Acco Festival, Acre, Israel
2002 DIE FIRST, One In The Other Gallery, London, UK
2002 IMAGINE, 300 Artists for Co-Existence, Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Umm el-Fahem, Israel
2002 CROSSING DISCIPLINE BOUNDARIES, The Royal Society, London, UK
2002 ATOMS IN THE FAMILY, International 3 Gallery, Manchester, UK (Curator: Cecilia Andersson)
2001 ART 2001, Business Design Centre, London, UK
2000 FRONT, bilis 2000, London, UK
1999 MA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
1998 FRACTIONS: An Israeli Video-Art Collection, Einav Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Podewil, Berlin, Germany (Curator: Vered Maimon)
1998 LA CONSCIENZA LUCCICANTE, Palazzo Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
1998 CONDITION REPORT: Photography In Israel Today, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1996 FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN, Petriteam, Bat-Yam Museum, Israel
1996 CREALITY, The Art Gallery, Yavne, Israel (Curator: Ofer Zeevi)
1996 OUTDOOR MUSEUM – ART ON BILLBOARD, Arad, Bat-Yam, Zemah, Israel (Curator: Ofer Zeevi)
1995 OBSTRUCTION OF SEQUENCE, The Art Gallery, Yavne, Israel