Ofri Cnaani

Ofri Cnaani is an artist and researcher who works across media and performance. Cnaani writes about data and coloniality, digital contested heritage, and performance as a model for creating critical technology. She is a visiting professor at the Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria, and a research fellow at the International Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2022, she completed her doctoral studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Until recently, Cnaani was an associate lecturer at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. Cnaani’s work has appeared at Tate Britain, UK; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; Israel Museum; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; PS1/MoMA, NYC; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; The Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel; Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arnolfini Foundation Museum, Bristol; Tel Aviv Museum; Prague Triennial, among others. Before moving to London, Cnaani was based in New York City, where she was a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts’ Visual and Critical Studies program. At SVA, Cnaani founded the program “City as Site: Performance + Social Interventions.” Cnaani is the co-organizer of Choreographic Devices, an annual three-day chorographic symposium at ICA, London, and has recently completed a project at the International Space Station (ISS).

Most important exhibitions and performances:
2023 Museum of Contemporary Arts (MAC), Santiago. SUBTE, Montevideo. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. Rampa, Porto, PT. 2022 Triskel Art Center, Ireland. 2021 Austrian Pavilion, 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, IT. Petach Tikva Museum of Art. 2019 Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki. Sir. John Soane Museum, London. 2018 Goethe Institute’s Performing Architecture program at La Biennale die Venezia, Venice. Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL (US). 2017 Tate Britain, London. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (US). The Nathan Cummings Foundation. 2016 Kisama Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. 2015 Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil. Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TX (US). 2013 Seven Words, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US). 2012 Princeton University and Rutgers University. Fisher Museum of Art at USC, Los Angeles, CA (US). 2010 PS1/MoMA, NY. Moscow Biennial. 2009 Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Milan, IT.