Artist Bio

Ben Alon is a visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv. His practice includes photography and installation work, through which he translates photographic documentation into site-responsive installations, giving images a physical presence in exhibition spaces. Working between image and object, he creates tensions between seduction and disturbance. Alon revisits erotic codes and economies of looking, pushing the practice of image-making toward unease, where desire is exposed as a form of violence. His practice engages with bureaucratic systems, looking at the office as a charged symbol of a contemporary condition. Using photography to give attention to minor slips and details within bureaucratic systems that emphasize efficiency, he explores how latent forms of violence inhabit the ordinary.

Recent solo and duo presentations include “In Cells” at Tel Aviv Artists' Studios (2026), and “I’m Not Your Father” at Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv (2024). Alon was a recent artist-in-residence at Duke University (2025), NC. He holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and studied at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany.