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Aya Ben Ron, Israeli, born in 1967.

Aya Ben was born and raised in Haifa. At the end of the 1980s, after serving in the army, she moved to Tel Aviv and began to study at Hamidrasha school of art in Ramat Hasharon. After graduating, she worked in graphic design of books and CD covers. She designed album covers for the Israeli band Teapacks. She is married to the photographer Oded Kimhi.

Physical injury and illness has been a major theme from the start of her career. She employs a variety of digital techniques, including video and computer illustration. In her series "First Aid" (2003) and "Still in Treatment" (2005), for example, Ben Ron builds scenes culled on material from medical textbooks and first aid manuals. The stylized figures and backgrounds create a sense of emotional detachment from the pathological aspects of the work.

Education

1989-92 Ramat Hasharon College for Art Teachers, Ramat Hasharon
1998-99 M.A.in Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London,

Teaching

2005 Haifa University, Beit Berl College, The School of Art
2005 Hamidrasha, Kalischer School of Art, Technology Teachers Training College

Awards And Prizes

1990 Fellowship, Beit Berl College - School of Art, Kfar Saba
2001 Artist-in-Residence, The Wellcome Trust Institute, London
2001 London Arts Development Fund, London
2002 Prize for a Young Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2005 Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation Prize for Special Projects in Art
2008 George and Janet Jaffin Prize for Excellence in Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2008 Prize in Visual Arts, Ministry of Culture and Sport
2009 Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Isracard Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2010 Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation Prize for Special Projects in Art