Artist Name: Bat-Ami Rivlin
Residency Dates: April – June 2025
Born: 1991
Hometown: Israel
Lives & Works: New York, NY
URL: batamiriviln.com | Instagram @amirivlin
Education:
MFA from Columbia University
BFA from SVA
Bio/Statement:
Bat-Ami Rivlin is one of the selected artists for the 2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program.
Bat-Ami Rivlin is a New York-based sculptor, educator, and writer working with found and surplus objects. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions including Untitled (inflatable slider) at Lo Brutto Stahl (Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland, 2024), Untitled (car, eyeballed) at Lower Cavity, (Holyoke, MA, 2024), Boat, Plastic, Tire at L21 PALMA (Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 2023), EN-SITIO at Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro (Querétaro, Mexico, 2022), No Can Do at M 2 3 (New York, NY, 2021), Untitled (inflatable house, zip ties, blower) at A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY, 2021) and the two-person presentation, Excess and Surplus, at Sharp Projects (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2021). Additional notable exhibitions include Grace Under Fire at The Shepherd (Detroit, MI, 2024), plus one at Ensemble (New York, NY, 2024), Simple Sabotage at Kunsthal Nord (Aalborg, Denmark, 2023), The Socrates 2023 Annual at Socrates Sculpture Park (LIC, NY), The Backend at Montclair State University Galleries (Montclair, NJ, 2023), COLAPSO at Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Canaries, Spain, 2022), and whereabouts at the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2022).
Rivlin’s work was reviewed in publications such as Artforum, BOMB Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Flash-Art, émergent magazine, The Art Newspaper, Artnet, PIN-UP Magazine, Office Magazine, The Paris Review, Public Parking, Granta Magazine and more.
She is the recipient of the RAIR residency (2025), Sculpture Space residency (2025), Monira Foundation Artist Residency (2025), LES Printshop Fellowship (2024), 1708 Gallery Residency (2024), Lower Cavity Artist Residency (2024), Socrates Sculpture Park Annual Fellowship (2023), A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship (2020) and NARS Foundation Residency (2017) among others.
The 2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
