{{Short description|Israeli photographer and curator}} {{Orphan|date=December 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Roni Ben Ari | image = רוני בן ארי .jpg | native_name = רוני בן ארי | native_name_lang = he | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = Ramat Gan, Israel | occupation = Photographer | alma_mater = Beit Berl Academic College }}
'''Roni Ben Ari''' ({{langx|he|רוני בן ארי}}; born '''Halpern'''; 1947) is an Israeli photographer, curator and multi-disciplinary artist. {{TOC limit|2}}
== Early life and education == {{BLP unreferenced section|date=October 2019}} Roni Ben-Ari was born in 1947 in Ramat Gan to Miriam and Abraham Halpern, a textile industrialist (Halpern Textile Industries). She lives in Moshav Netaim, with her husband, Daniel Ben Ari. They have three daughters. Ben Ari is a graduate of the Beit Berl Academic College, the School of Journalism in Tel Aviv, and the College for Geographic Photography.
== Early career == She worked as a news director and reporter at the Israel Broadcasting Authority, Educational Television, and Channel Two. In recent years, she has been working as an independent photographer. Her work has been exhibited in solo and in group exhibitions in Israel and around the world, and it can be found in museums as well as in private collections. Among the subjects Ben Ari has investigated is the Israeli heroine.<ref name="haaretz.com 2011">{{cite web | title=Tell Danny he had a mother | website=Haaretz | date=19 October 2011 | url=https://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/tell-danny-he-had-a-mother-1.390953 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023065715/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/tell-danny-he-had-a-mother-1.390953 | url-status=dead | archive-date=23 October 2011 | access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref> Mira Ben Ari—an exemplary figure who became the symbol of the Women's Corp of the Israel Defense Forces and for women in general—who was killed in the battle of Kibbutz Nitzanim during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The educational and heritage center at the Memorial to the Female Soldier (located in old Nitzanim), was established in tribute to her spirit and legacy. Ben Ari is a founder and partner in the Bateva School educational program, a growing mainstreaming program that prepares children and youth with complicated learning disabilities for independent integration into society. She is also a shareholder in the Elyakim Ben Ari Company, a civil engineering company that executes national projects in Israel.
== Artistic career == Ben Ari uses her photography to document social issues such as aging, homelessness, prostitution, minorities, and ecology. She mainly photographs people, but also their surrounding environment. Before she photographs them, Ben Ari first becomes close to her subjects by living with them. For example, the photographs for her project, ''Journey in Search of "Țigancă"'', were taken only after she had been living among the Romani for about a year. She began the project after the death of her mother, who was born in Cluj-Napoka, Romania, a city that has historically had a large gypsy minority.<ref>{{Citation|last=ronibenari1|title=ערוץ 10 ריאיון 31 10 13|date=5 November 2013|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt3tYJ17QjQ|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/44degrees/docs/44degrees-2015-no_subject/42|title=44 Degrees 2015 No subject|website=Issuu|access-date=8 May 2019}}</ref> In the project ''Till Their Voices Stop'', Ben Ari lived in a nursing home. There, she photographed the fragile, elderly residents and recorded their voices, which she developed into a video installation that was exhibited in the gallery of the College for Geographic Photography.<ref>{{Citation|last=ronibenari1|title=רוני בן ארי, עד כלות קולם,Roni Ben Ari, Till their voices stop|date=27 February 2011|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrT3XdTBeV4|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref> {{Blockquote|Photography is often associated with the term "to take" as in "to take a picture." Roni's photography does not take. In Roni's photography, the act of giving is so present that she hears the voices, is aware of the needs, touches the textures, and thus brings the viewer closer. We all benefit from this closeness. This closeness is not perceived as an invasion of someone else's territory, but rather as the act of acceptance, of giving.|source=Miki Kratsman}}
== Awards == *Black & White magazine, single Image Contest 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bandwmag.com/galleries/bw/contests/26/categories/56/photographs/86963|title=Drawing Stone by Roni Ben Ari {{!}} Black & White Magazine {{!}} For Collectors of Fine Photography|website=Black & White|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=Contest Winner|url=https://www.bandwmag.com/galleries/bw/contests/26/categories/56/photographs/86963 |journal=Black and White Magazine |issue=2018 |pages=109}}</ref> *Magnum Photography Awards 2017 – top 7% of all entries, impressive accomplishment thumb|Ben Ari receiving from the King of the Roma, Cioaba Dorin, an honorary title "ambassador in Israel for the Romani Community"|282x282px2017– Hariban Award 2017, Kyoto, Japan<ref name="Collotype 2017">{{cite web | last=Collotype | first=Benrido | title=Hariban Award 2017 – Shortlist | website=Benrido, Contemporary Collotype, Hariban Award, Collotype Photo Competition | date=9 August 2017 | url=http://benrido-collotype.today/hariban-award-2017-shortlist/ | language=ja | access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref> * The 5th Edition of the Jacob Riis for documentary Award, 2017<ref name="The Photography Gala Awards">{{cite web | title=The 5th Jacob Riis Editorial Award | website=The Photography Gala Awards | url=https://www.thegalaawards.com/the-5th-jacob-riis-editorial-award/ | access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref> *UNESCO Prize for Art and Society, honorable mention, 2017 * Worldwide Photograph Gala Awards, first prize, Portrait Photography Category, 2013 *China Digital Photography Museum of Lishui, prize for Processed Photograph, 2011 * Julia Margaret Cameron Prize, Portrait Photography Category, 2011 *UNESCO Humanity Photo Award, 2008 * Ziv Prize for Television Journalism, 1988 * Ben Ari is the honorary ambassador in Israel for the Romani Community, a title she received personally from the King of the Roma, Dorin Cioabă, following an exhibition of her photographs depicting gypsy daily life<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4654562,00.html|title=King of the Roma visits Israel|date=5 July 2015|website=Ynetnews|access-date=14 February 2019|last1=Eichner |first1=Itamar }}</ref>
== Books == * ''Father -Loom- Requiem'' (2012) {{ISBN|978-965-92637-4-5}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ben Ari |first=Roni |title=Loom, Father, Requiem |publisher=Roni Ben Ari |year=2012 |language=he, en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://beta.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH004363865/NLI|title=הספרייה הלאומית – נול, אבא, רקוויאם / רוני בן ארי ; צילום: רוני בן ארי ; [מאמרים]: רוני בן ארי, ד"ר יצחק נוי|website=beta.nli.org.il|language=he|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref> * ''From the inner margins'' (2013) {{ISBN|978-965-92637-5-2}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ben Ari |first=Roni |title=From the Inner Margins |year=2013 |isbn=978-965-92637-5-2 |language=he, en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://merhav.nli.org.il/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=NNL_ALEPH004363870&context=L&vid=NLI&search_scope=Local&tab=default_tab&lang=iw_IL|title=From the inner margins / Roni ben Ari|website=merhav.nli.org.il|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref> * ''Ladies in waiting'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-965-92637-0-7}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://merhav.nli.org.il/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=NNL_ALEPH004363860&context=L&vid=NLI&search_scope=Local&tab=default_tab&lang=iw_IL|title=Ladies in waiting / Roni Ben Ari|website=merhav.nli.org.il|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref> * ''Ethiopia here'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-965-92637-1-4}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://merhav.nli.org.il/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=NNL_ALEPH004363866&context=L&vid=NLI&search_scope=Local&tab=default_tab&lang=iw_IL|title=ethiopia|website=merhav.nli.org.il|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref> * ''Faces'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-965-92637-2-1}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://merhav.nli.org.il/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=NNL_ALEPH004363867&context=L&vid=NLI&search_scope=Local&tab=default_tab&lang=iw_IL|title=Faces / Roni Ben Ari.|website=merhav.nli.org.il|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref> * ''Ocean of garbage'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-965-92637-3-8}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://merhav.nli.org.il/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=NNL_ALEPH004363863&context=L&vid=NLI&search_scope=Local&tab=default_tab&lang=iw_IL|title=faces|website=merhav.nli.org.il|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref>
== Exhibitions == === 1998 === ''Lag Be-Omer Ceremony'', Mount Meiron, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
=== 2001 === ''City Project'', Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
=== 2002 === ''Love Conquers'', Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
=== 2006 === Solo exhibition, ''Until Their Voices Stopped'', Gallery of the College for Geographic Photography, Tel Aviv
=== 2008 === Permanent solo exhibition, ''Ethiopia Here'', The Story of the Ethiopian Community, photos embedded on 12 concrete pillars, Park of the Communities, Petah Tikva
Light, FusionArts Museum, New York, NY
''Border between Two Cities'', Museum of Jaffa
=== 2009 === ''Artists Create'' and book launch for ''Israeli Artists Book'', Sand Horses Gallery, Paris
''Culture of the Kiosk/Gift of Memory'', 53rd Biennale (Marx 7), Scalamata Gallery, Venice, Italy
''Memoir L'avenir'', Head Museum, Paris, France
''Inside Israel'', traveling exhibition in China commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel, Museum of the Three Kings, Chunching, China
City of Refuge, Tel Aviv Biennale of Art, Hangar 2, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv
=== 2010 === ''Photography about Painting'', Galerie Mémoire de L’avenir, Paris, France
Two-person exhibition, ''Ma'agalot'' , Office in Tel Aviv (Alternative space for interdisciplinary art), Tel Aviv<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officeintelavivgallery.com/project_114.htm|title=Office in Tel Aviv Gallery – project 114 – Irit Segal Israeli & Roni Ben-Ari|website=officeintelavivgallery.com|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>
=== 201 === ''Echo Phobia Art'', Drap-Art Festival, Nakba Museum/CCCB Barcelona, Spain<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/110980168|title=TV news report about Drap-Art Barcelona 2012|via=Vimeo|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>
''Wabi Sabi'', "Love Art Make Art", Studio and Gallery, Tel Aviv<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artbeat.co.il/Exhibition.php?ind=924|title=וואבי סאבי|website=artbeat.co.il|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>
''Mapping'', 54th Biennale, Gallery Living Art Gallery, Venice, Italy
''Black'', Fusion Arts Museum, New York, NY
=== 2012 === Solo exhibition, ''Loom-Father-Requiem'', Galerie Vernon, Prague, Czech Republic<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en1.artclue.net/vernon-gallery-loom-father-requiem/|title=Vernon Gallery, Prague: Loom {{!}} Father {{!}} Requiem|website=ArtClue|access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref>
''Dance Signs'', Tina B. Fest, Prague, Czech Republic
Solo exhibition, Sea of Garbage, video work, screened on Mani House, Tel Aviv<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/110775238|title=Video, solo screening on Leumi Mani Building 2012|via=Vimeo|access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref>
''I Was There'', Water Tower Art Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://watertowerartfest.com/en/archive/2012-archive/|title=Water Tower Art Fest|website=Water Tower Art Fest|access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref>
''Transformation'', Hallway Gallery, Documenta 2012, Kassel, Germany
=== 2013 === Solo exhibition, ''Montzi, Gypsies in Cluj-Napoca'', Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca, Romania<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.macluj.ro/2013_arhiva_expozitii/roni-ben-ari.html|title="Montzi" exhibition in Cluj-Napoca, National Art Museum}}</ref>
''"At your place",'' Roof Gallery, Duisburg, Germany
''Rainbow in a Sea of Garbage'', Gask Museum of Contemporary Art, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://petravalentova.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/petra-valentova-at-tina-b-gask-kutna-hora/|title=Spectrum, the power of colors – Petra Valentova at Tina B., GASK, Kutna Hora|last=petravalentova|date=15 July 2013|website=Petra (Gupta) Valentová|access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref>
''My Eye/I'', 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
=== 2014 === Solo exhibition, ''Home Is Where the Hurt Is'', Galerie Mémoire de L’avenir, Paris, France<ref name="Culturel 2014">{{cite web | last=Culturel | first=Service | title=Les photographes Roni Ben Ari et Meir Rakocz à la Galerie Mémoire de l'Avenir | website=" coolisrael.fr | date=27 October 2014 | url=http://coolisrael.fr/20938/les-photographes-roni-ben-ari-et-meir-rakocz-la-galerie-memoire-de-lavenir | language=fr | access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Culture – 11/12/2014|date=13 November 2014|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXkuPiY3Ywc&feature=youtu.be|accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref>
''in between the lines'', Art Gallery, Botanischer Garten, München-Nymphenburg, Germany<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hagalil.com/2014/04/polak/|title=Zwischen den Streifen – Between the Lines – haGalil|date=23 April 2014|work=haGalil|access-date=15 April 2018|language=de-DE}}</ref>
''Woven Consciousness'', ''Contemporary Textile in Israel'', Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/300/|title=Woven Consciousness|website=eretzmuseum.org.il|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/112613575|title=Woven Consciousness Eretz Israel Museum 2014|via=Vimeo|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref>
=== 2015 === ''Adama'', Second Biennale for Sculpture and Photography, Moshe Kastel Museum, Jerusalem
Solo exhibition, ''Journey in Search of "Țigancă'', Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan<ref>{{Citation|title=Culture – 05/13/2015|date=13 May 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54tHR8tGsfE&feature=youtu.be|accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref>
''Adama'', Gallery of the Ahmedabad and Baroda University and National Gallery of Mumbai, India<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/154712634|title=Adama exhibition India|via=Vimeo|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref>
''I Live in the East and My Heart Is in the West'', Fifty Years of Israel-German Relations, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hagalil.com/2015/03/pasinger-fabrik/|title=Ich lebe im Osten aber mein Herz ist im Westen – haGalil|date=24 March 2015|work=haGalil|access-date=15 April 2018|language=de-DE}}</ref>
=== 2016 === Solo exhibition, ''Drawing in Stone'', Artists House, Munich, Germany<ref name="Münchner Künstlerhaus">{{cite web | title=Roni Ben-Ari Photography – Drawing in Stone | website=Münchner Künstlerhaus | url=https://www.kuenstlerhaus-muc.de/programm/2016/06/ausstellung_ben-ari.php | language=de | access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref>
Solo exhibition, Central Museum of Textiles, The 15th International Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ronibenari.com/news/15th-international-triennale-of-tapestry-2016-textile-museum-lodz/|title=15th international triennale of tapestry 2016, textile Museum, Lodz {{!}} Roni Ben Ari, Photographer – רוני בן ארי, צלמת|website=www.ronibenari.com|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cojestgrane24.wyborcza.pl/cjg24/Lodz/1,43,242984,Roni-Ben-Ari--Krosno--ojciec--requiem.html|title=Roni Ben-Ari. Krosno, ojciec, requiem|website=Gazeta Wyborcza|language=pl|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=15 Międzynarodowe Triennale Tkaniny, Łódź 2016 : Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa : 9.05.-30.10.2016 = 15 International Triennial of Tapestry, Łódź 2016 : Central Museum of Textiles 9.05. – 30.10.2016|date=2016|publisher=Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa|others=Oko, Marcin., Piwońska, Jolanta., Ziemnicka-Darnowska, Barbara., Wróblewska-Markiewicz, Małgorzata., Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa (Łódź)., Biuro Tłumaczeń Specjalistycznych ArcusLink.|isbn=9788360146583|location=Łódź|oclc=958215193}}</ref>
Solo exhibition, ''Micro Macro'', Pardes Festival, Kazmierz Dolny, Poland<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ronibenari.com/news/lodz-pardes-festival-anna-dabrowicz-on-roni-bn-ari-centralne-muzeum/|title=Lodz 'Pardes Festival' Anna Dąbrowicz on Roni Bn Ari / Centralne Muzeum {{!}} Roni Ben Ari, Photographer – רוני בן ארי, צלמת|website=www.ronibenari.com|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref>
''Tower of Babel'', Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://schemaprojects.com/exhibition-TowerBabel.html|title=Schema Projects – Tower of Babel|website=schemaprojects.com|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref>
=== 2017 === Signing event Foley Gallery, NY<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/264564752|title=Visura 2017 – book signing – of "Ladies in Waiting", NY}}</ref>
Solo exhibition, Gallery Ryugaheon, Seoul, Korea<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.artbava.com/exhibit/roni-ben-ari-%EC%82%AC%EC%A7%84%EC%A0%84-ladies-waiting/|title=Roni Ben Ari 사진전 : Ladies in Waiting|work=Artbava 아트바바|access-date=10 December 2017|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Koyama|first=Junichiro|year=2007|title=ISSN (International Standard Serial Number), ISSN Network and Japanese National Centre for ISSN|journal=Journal of Information Processing and Management|volume=50|issue=3|pages=144–154|doi=10.1241/johokanri.50.144|bibcode=2007JIPM...50..144K |issn=0021-7298|doi-access=free}}</ref>
UNESCO –Art & Society, Solo exhibition at the World Humanities Conference. Bruges, Belgium<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://artsandsociety-iygu.org/artists/roni-ben-ari/|title=Roni Ben Ari – Arts and Society|access-date=15 April 2018|language=fr-FR}}</ref>
Bosom Bodies, SIA Gallery, NYC<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bosombodies.blogspot.co.il/|title=Bosom Bodies: An Art Exhibition in Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness|website=bosombodies.blogspot.co.il|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref>
16th DongGang International Photo Festival, Korea<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ronibenari.com/news/photography-museum-dipf-2017-the-16th-donggang-international-photo-festival-korea/|title=Photography Museum, DIPF, 2017 the 16th DongGang International Photo Festival, Korea {{!}} Roni Ben Ari, Photographer – רוני בן ארי, צלמת|website=www.ronibenari.com|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dgphotofestival.com/2016-2|title=dipf2018|website=dipf2018|language=ko|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref>
=== 2018 === Solo exhibition, The International Photography Festival of Photo Is:Rael<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.photoisrael.org/exhibitions/laugh-away-%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%99-%d7%91%d7%9f-%d7%90%d7%a8%d7%99/|title=Laugh Away {{!}} רוני בן ארי|website=Photo Is:Rael|language=he-IL|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>
PhotoBook Show, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.photofestival.gr/photobooks|title=Athens Photo Festival|website=Athens Photo Festival|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>
Memory of the Future gallery, "can I call you madam?", Paris, France<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.memoire-a-venir.org/crbst_153_en.html|title=Mémoire de l'Avenir|website=memoire-a-venir.org|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>
Cuckoo's Nest gallery, "Beyond the mind", Jaffa, Israel
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{official website|http://www.ronibenari.com/}} * [https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4654562,00.html "King of the Roma visits Israel"] ynetnews, Itamar Eichner 07.05.15
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