Keren Cytter was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1977. 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 non-professional actors and handheld camera techniques. Her films attempt to deconstruct the modern principles of cinema, balancing between performance and theatre. Language plays a central role, with plot lines and structures that become 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 reflections on today’s society.

Solo exhibitions and performances of Cytter’s work include: 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); My brain is in the wall, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (2004).

Cytter has 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); People, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008).