Premio Combat Prize

EchoPhobia
My project is in stills photography showing Hiriya, formerly Israel’s largest landfill and now an extensive waste transfer station. A sea of consumer products and used packaging reach their final stage here and are laid to die. Like a man struggling against the waves of a cruel, mighty sea – so as an artist, my self, feels like standing on top of the observatory spot in front of the huge gushes of waste, threatening to engulf me. The act of documentation becomes a warning sign against the mounting hazards of trash in our world
Roni Ben-Ari, photographer, curator and multimedia artist
STUDIES
2000-2009
Master classes with the top photographers in Israel
1993-1996
College of Geographic Photography, Tel Aviv
1976-1978
TV Journalism College, Tel Aviv
1971-1974
Hamidrasha, College of Art, Herzliya
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016
Solo exhibition, Artists House, Germany
Solo exhibition, Textile Museum, the 15th international Triennial of Textiles, Poland
2015
Solo exhibition- “In search of the “Tiganca”, The Ramat-Gan Museum of Israeli Art
“Earth”, the Galleries of Ahmdbad & Brauda University, also at the National Gallery, India
2014
Solo exhibition – “Home is where the Hurt is”, Memory of Future gallery, Paris
“Woven Consciousness,” Eretz Israel Museum, Israel
2013
Solo exhibition, “Montzi,” National Museum of Art, Romania
“The Colors of the Rainbow in the Ocean Garbage,” Gask Museum, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
2012
Solo exhibition, ”Loom | Father | Requiem,” Vernon Gallery, Czech Republic
2011
“EcoPhobiaArt,” Drap-Art Festival MACBA – CCCB Museum, Spain
“Mapping,” part of “Markers 8,” collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale, Art Life for the World Gallery, Venice
2010
“Ma’agalot,” co-exhibition, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Israel
2009
“Inside Israel”, celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary, Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China
2008
“Light,” Fusion Art Museum, NY
2006
solo exhibition, “Till Their Voices Stop,” The Gallery of the Geographic Photography College, Israel