Naomi Ben-Shahar is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New York. She is interested in exploring the lineage of traditional and historical women's work, nature and cosmology. Her framework is the intersection of craft and photography.
Ben-Shahar has benefited from international and local support by the organizations The American Academy in Rome, Italy; Baxter St. Camera Club of NY; New York Foundation for the Arts; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Edith Russ Site for Media Arts, Germany; and Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Her work was shown at the New Museum in New York; FA Projects, London; Torch gallery, Amsterdam; Art Process, Paris, Edith Russ Site for Media Arts, Germany; Feature, Inc.; Gorney Bravin & Lee; and Baxter St. Camera Club in New York; and BY Art Projects in Tel Aviv.
Ms. Ben-Shahar also curated contemporary art exhibitions for the NY City Opera at Lincoln Center, taught photography at Fordham University and the International Center of Photography in NY, and was the image editor for The New Yorker and Cabinet magazines, as well as Abbeville Press.
Her work consists of weaving, photography, painting, and video.