Irit Batsry is an artist working mainly in video and installations as well as in photography. Her work is part of several collections including those of MoMA and the Whitney Museums in New York.

She was awarded the prestigious Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award 2002, given to an artist whose work “demonstrates a singular combination of talent and imagination - a person who promises to make significant contributions to the visual arts”.

She received the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1992 and the Grand Prix Video de Création of the Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris (1996 and 2001) as well as many international festival prizes including: Grand Prix Locarno 90 and 95, First Prize - Vigo 94 and 01 Best Intl. Artistic Contribution - Cadiz 91, First Prize - the Australian Video Festival 89...

She has been an artist in residence at The International Center for Video Creation in France, The Cité des Arts in Paris and at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Her work has been broadcast in the United States on PBS and in Europe on La Sept, WDR and ARTE.

Her work has been shown extensively in 35 different countries in international festivals (Rotterdam, New York, Rio, Berlin, Londres) and many art venues including the National Gallery in Washington DC, the National Film Theater and the ICA (London), the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Museu d'Arte Moderna (Rio), Ludwig Museum (Cologne), Tel Aviv Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art (New York).