Artist Statement/ Biography

Shasha Dothan’s art transforms spaces through the immersion of painting, video art and a continuous discourse with visitors. Dothan’s art reveals the ongoing debate between the power structures that built her way of thought and her subjective experience. Her work addresses conflicts: being a queer woman, an Israeli, an immigrant, an occupier, a victim and an oppressor. Dothan’s work is always deeply inspired by her environment. Whatever surrounds her transforms into installations. Dothan collects images, plays with potential connections between them and places them one next to the other to allow the meaning to emerge. She brings into discussion her thoughts as a young Israeli queer woman/artist and immigrant to the USA. Her fears and hopes translate into art.

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Shasha Dothan (b. 1987 Tel-Aviv) is a Brooklyn-based artist working with video, installation, poetry and sound. Exhibitions include the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art ; Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Blum & Poe ; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Erica Broussard Gallery, Santa Ana; American Jewish University; Jerusalem Cultural Season; University at Buffalo Art Galleries, and Ashdod museum of Art. Dothan received an MFA from University of California Los Angeles (2018), and a BFA from Shenkar College (2013). Awards and scholarships include the John Baldessari Family Foundation Scholarship (2017-18); Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of culture (2018); Word prize from AJU; Asylum Arts Grant; Philip & Muriel Berman Foundation Grant (2019) and the Artis residency grant for Vermont Studio center and NARS foundation.