Artists

Mona Benyamin

Mona Benyamin (b. 1997, Haifa, Palestine) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and cellist who lives and works between Palestine and the Hudson Valley, New York. Her multidisciplinary practice explores intergenerational experiences of dispossession and the ways memory is constructed, transmitted, and reframed across time. Focusing on the intersections of experience and witnessing, trauma, and temporal awareness, she reworks mass-media formats through appropriation, manipulation, and dark humor. Often involving her parents as both subjects and collaborators, Benyamin creates cinematic works where surrealism and hyperrealism converge, offering reflections on belonging, the limits of language, and the politics of representation.