Oren Pinhassi’s installations examine the relationship between the human figure, nature and the built environment by conjuring evocative and erotic sites that intersect public and private exchange. Pinhassi’s primary materials are plaster and sand, used for their porosity to propose fluid environments where rigid categories collapse.

Oren Pinhassi (b. 1985) received an MFA from Yale in 2014 and B.Ed.F.A. in 2011 from Beit-Berl College, Hamidrasha School of Art. Selected solo exhibitions include Thirst Trap, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, USA (2021); Lone and Level, Helena Anrather, New York, USA (2021); The Crowd, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2020); Oren Pinhassi, Castello di San Basilio, Basilicata, Italy (2019); Better Safe than Sorry, 56 Henry, Philadelphia, USA (2018); One in the mouth and one in the heart, Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles, USA (2018); Springs, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Israel (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Moveables, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA (2023); SSSSSSSSSCULPTURESQUE, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2022); Guilty Curtain, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2021); O Sole Mio, Parasol Unit, London, UK (2020); For Mario, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA (2019) and This Is Not a Prop, David Zwirner, New York, USA (2018). Pinhassi’s work is in the collections of Castello San Basilio, Basilicata, Italy; GAMeC Museum of Modern Art, Bergamo, Italy; Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy; Peach Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva, Israel. Oren Pinhassi lives and works in New York.