Ariel Hacohen is a visual artist from Jerusalem. His work experiments with a variety of
photographic approaches, including snapshot and staged photography, digital image
processing, and video art. In addition, he creates photographic sculptures using
computer-based modeling and casting techniques.
Hacohen’s oeuvre focuses on the interface between history, memory, and the human
body. His works contain Classical and archaeological elements as well as appropriated
materials that have undergone digitization, blurring, erasure, and replication. Across his
studio-based work, he quests to create images, videos, and sculptures that appear both
multi-temporal and timeless.
Hacohen is the laureate of the 2024 Rappaport Prize on behalf of the Bruce and Ruth
Rappaport Foundation and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Other notable recognitions
include the RCA-Metro Imaging Award, the Clore Foundation Scholarship, the America-
Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) Scholarship, the Bezalel-Presser Award for Excellence
in Photography, the Yossi Breger Award, and the Hecht Foundation Prize for Young
Artists. Hacohen is currently a participant in the long-term Residency Program of the Art
Cube Artists’ Studios in Talpiot, Jerusalem.
In 2022, Hacohen graduated (with honors) from the MA Photography programme at
the Royal College of Art (RCA), London. He received his B.F.A. (with Hons) from the
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (2019), during which he participated in
a student exchange programme at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
In 2025-2026, Hacohen’s work By the Rivers was featured as a solo exhibition at the Tel
Aviv Museum of Art. Other recent exhibitions include: Gospels at the Bezalel Gallery for
Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2024, duo); Hakoah at the Koresh 14 Gallery, Jerusalem (2023,
solo); Digging Down at the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem (2021); and Bodyscapes at
the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2020).

2025  The 2024 Rappaport Prize for Art in Times of War exhibition, ‘By the Rivers’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

2025-2026  By the Rivers, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2024  Gospels, Bezalel Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2023  Hakoah, Koresh 14 Gallery, Jerusalem
2021  Digging Down, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem
2020  Bodyscapes, Israel Museum, Jerusalem