Shasha Dothan (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based artist working with video and installation. Her installations transform spaces through the immersion of painting, video art and a continuous discourse with visitors. Dothan has won many awards and scholarships over the last decade. In addition to showing her work internationally, Dothan teaches and curates. Dothan’s art reveals an ongoing debate between the power structures that built her way of thought and her subjective experience. Dothan’s work addresses conflicts: being a queer woman, an Israeli, an immigrant to the USA, an occupier, a victim, and an oppressor. Her work is always deeply inspired by the environment she lives in. Whatever surrounds her transforms into an installation.
She has exhibited in museums such as Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan (2014); Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva (2016); Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod (2020), and galleries such as Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2018); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2018); American Jewish University, Los Angeles (2018); University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo (2019); MCLA Gallery 51 (2021). Dothan has received the Minister of Culture Young Artist Award (2018), Adams Family Foundation Young Artist Award, Asylum Arts Grant (2021). The support of Artis Residency grant for Vermont Studio center and NARS Foundation; artist in residence at Field Residency Chelsea (2022), NARS Foundation(2021), Mass Moca (2019), Byrdcliffe (2020) and Vermont Studio Center (2019).
