Orit Ben Shitrit

Orit Ben Shitrit is a transdisciplinary artist who works in experimental film, video, choreography, sound, photography, drawing, sculpture, and ceramics. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries in Israel and abroad, including MACRO Rome; Herzliya Museum; Haifa Museum of Art; Gallery C24 in New York; MABS Society in Shanghai; Museum Van Loon in Amsterdam; Guest Projects in London; amongst others. Ben Shitrit has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the Ostrovsky Family Fund, Artis, and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). In 2025-2026, Orit is an artist in residence at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University, in collaboration with the lab of Prof. Inbal Goshen. Until July 2022, she was chair of the Experimental Film department at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). She holds a master's degree from Hunter College, New York.