Keren Cytter was born in 1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She lives and works in New York.

Cytter has developed a large body of works including, in particular, films and video suites that adopt a nonlinear narrative. The artist remarkably plays with the notion of the real and the fictitious, using nonprofessional actors and handheld camera techniques. Her films are deconstructing the modern principles of cinema, balancing between performance and theatre. Language plays a central role in her work with plot lines and the structure influenced by the formal devices of poetry. Her filmic representations add up to paint a surrealistic picture riddled with existentialist concerns about love, hate and the human condition. They are at once a dark and comical reflection on today’s society.

Solo exhibitions and performances of Cytter’s work include: Bad Words, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen (2022); Fashions, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur (2021); Mature Content, Museion Bolzano, Bolzano (2019); Keren Cytter: Sponsored Content, CCA, Tel-Aviv (2019); Middle of Beyond, EMAF European Media Art Festival No. 31, Osnabruck, Germany (2018); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2014), traveling to MCA, Chicago (2015); Video Art Manual, State of Concept, Athens (2014); Show Real Drama, Tate Modern Oil Tanks, London (2012); The Hottest Day of the Year, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich (2011); David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2011); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010); Project Series: Keren Cytter, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010); Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2010); History in the Making, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London (2009); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2005); and My brain is in the wall, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (2004). 

Cytter has also taken part in a number of group shows, such as: MOMENTUM 10, Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway (2019); (X) A Fantasy, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2017); Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2015); Turn On: Time-Based Art from the Julia Stoschek Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2015); Der Stachel des Skorpions, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2014); Institute Mathildeonhohe, Darmstadt (2014); Where are we Now, 5th Marrakesh Biennial (2014); A Theatre Cycle, NOMAS Foundation at Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome (2013); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009); and People, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008).