Ruth Patir, who lives and works in Tel Aviv, is a new media artist and documentary filmmaker, as well as a professor at the Bezalel Academy Screen-Based Arts Department and Sapir College. What began with her exhibition “Love Letters to Ruth”—where she resurrected the late IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan and summoned him to be her 3D lover— has evolved into an ongoing exploration of representation, reproduction, and biopolitics in patriarchal Israel. In her recent works, Patir breathes life into archaeological artifacts from the levant, focusing on female figurines that allow her to weave together her personal story with women’s lives today. Her most recent project, “(M)otherland”, commissioned for the Israeli Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, is currently on display at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Patir work has exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Art “My Father in the Cloud” 2022. Her film “Sleepers” won first prize in the Video Art and Experimental Film competition at the Jerusalem Film Festival (2017). Additional works have been shown at the Center of digital Art Holon Pavilion at the Gwanjou Biennale in Korea, the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), OnCurating Gallery in Zurich, the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, the Anthology Film Archives, the Municipal Gallery Line 16, Jerusalem Design Week and the Flux Factory collective in New York. Patir holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2011) and an MFA from Columbia University in New York (2015). Her works are included in private collections as well as in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, and the Jewish Museum in New York.