Irit Batsry

Irit Batsry was born in 1957 in Ramat Gan

Irit Batsry was born in Ramat Gan in 1957. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, in the ceramics department, from 1978 to 1982. She also specialized in video art there from 1981 to 1983.

In 1983 she moved to New York, where she has lived and worked since. She became an instructor and editor at Film/Video Arts.

She has made experimental videos and installations shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Biosphere in Montreal and the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid. Her work is held by the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2002 she received the Bucksbaum Award for work shown at the Whitney Biennial.

Her work deals with passing images and with perception. In the early 1990s she studied the work of Buckminster Fuller and his vision disorder. This led to works such as "A Simple Case of Vision" and "Of Persistence of Absence."