Khen Shish - Artist Info

About Khen Shish

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Ken Shish
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    Khen Shish was born in Safed, Israel, in 1970 to parents of Tunisian-Jewish origin. She studied art at the Art Institute, Oranim Academic College, Tivon, receiving a BFA in 1995. After graduation, she spent several years in Europe, living in Paris, London, Rome, and Berlin. In 1998 she returned to Israel and completed an MFA at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1997-1999). Shish is also a graduate of the New Seminar for Visual Culture, Criticism and Theory, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv (2000-2001).

    Shish works in a wide range of techniques. Her oeuvre includes paintings, drawings, collage, works executed on television screens, large-scale wall paintings, and...

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