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Ariel Hacohen
Born in 1993.
Graduated with honors in Photography from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2019); won the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Award for Excellence in Photography (2020); won the Yossi Berger Award for Excellence in Photography (2019); won the Excellence Award from the Department of Visual and Material Culture (2019); won the Bezalel Award for Academic Excellence (2018); won an Excellence Scholarship from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation (2019); won the Hecht Prize for Young Artists (2019).
Participated in the Student Exchange Program at the Beaux-Arts (National Academy of Fine Arts), Paris (2017); participated in a long-term artist residency program at the Artists’ Studios, Talpiot, Jerusalem (2020). Since September 2020, he has been studying for his master’s degree at the Royal College of Art, London, with the support of a scholarship from the Clore Foundation and the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
Ariel Hacohen works in the field of conceptual photography and uses a variety of photographic approaches, including direct and staged photography, image appropriation, video, digital manipulation, 3D modeling and casting.
He has participated in exhibitions at galleries and museums, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2020); Beit Binyamini, Tel Aviv (2020); The New Teddy Gallery, Jerusalem (2020); the International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv (2019); The Cube Gallery, Jerusalem (2019); Beit Hagefen Gallery, Haifa (2016).