Naomi Ben-Shahar is an artist and curator based in New York. She is interested in connectivity and the material interplay between photography and craft; her work poses questions about technology and intimacy, environmentalism, and feminist identity. She works with photography, weaving, painting, and video.
Her work was shown at the New Museum, Printed Matter, Baxter Street Camera Club, Feature, Inc., Gorney Bravin & Lee, White Columns in New York; FA Projects, London; Torch gallery, Amsterdam; Art Process, Paris, Edith Russ Site for Media Arts, Germany; the Video Art Festival in Casablanca, Morocco, and many others.
In 2023 she was a visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome, Italy and a mid-career initiative artist at Baxter St. Camera Club of NY. She also received support from New York Foundation for the Arts; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Edith Russ Site for Media Arts, Germany; and Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Ben-Shahar was featured on The Art Angle podcast, and written about in the New York Times, Art in America, The New Yorker, Time Out NY, Cabinet, and Plus magazines. She was also a founding image editor at Cabinet magazine; curated contemporary art exhibitions for the NY City Opera at Lincoln Center, taught photography at Fordham University and at the International Center of Photography in NY, and was an image editor for The New Yorker magazine and Abbeville Press.