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Einat Amir

Einat Amir is an Israeli video and performance artist and researcher who works on collaboration between art and science.

born 1979Participatory video and performance artArt and science collaborationsOur Best Intentions (2013)

Occupation: video artist, performance artist, artist
Education: Columbia University School of the Arts

Einat Amir was born in 1979

Amir was born in Jerusalem in 1979. She finished high school at the Hebrew University Secondary School.

She studied at HaMidrasha School of Art at Beit Berl College and earned a B.Ed. with honors in 2004. She moved to New York in 2007 and completed an M.F.A. at Columbia University in 2009. She later earned a doctorate at Aalto University in Finland, on a collaborative art and science approach to relations between groups.

Her video and performance works stage situations that mix fiction and reality, often with actors and audience members as participants. Her early works dealt with gender and social identity in Israeli society. Her work has been shown at venues including MoMA PS1, Palais de Tokyo, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum.

In 2016 and 2017 she joined a lab on emotions in conflict research at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, creating experiments that are also artworks. Her research has appeared in academic journals. She lives in Finland.

Milestones in Einat Amir's life

2004
Earned a B.Ed. with honors from HaMidrasha School of Art.
2007
Guest-edited an issue of the journal HaMidrasha on feminism and Israeli art.
2009
Completed an M.F.A. at Columbia University.
2012
Received the Young Artist Prize from Israel's Ministry of Culture.
2013
Presented Our Best Intentions at the Performa biennial in New York.
2016
Began working with social scientists at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
2024
Earned a Doctor of Arts degree from Aalto University.