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  • Brown Eyes Darling
  • Tali ben nun
  • 2023 →
Khen Shish's new works are a revved up painterly spectacle. On large canvases, using body gestures, her hands, her fingers, a brush, or painting straight from the tube, she presents an overflowing, …read more
  • LUCKY CHAMELEON
  • Drorit Gur Arie
  • 2021 →
“But she always had enough serenity to know that they were not memories of love or repentance, but the image of a sorrow that left a trail of tears on her cheeks,” writes Gabriel García Márquez in …read more
  • DELIBERATELY RANDOM
  • Timna Seligman
  • 2019 →
Israeli artist Khen Shish, born in Safed in 1970, has been active on the local and international art scene since the mid-1990s. From the start, her style was immediately recognizable, whether in …read more
  • THESE WERE THE MIRRORS WE HELD UP
  • Shimon Adaf
  • 2019 →
Perhaps we should remember a different time. A time when the world was young. Was the world ever young, when we were young in the world. Were we ever young. We had not yet acquired the force of …read more
  • sea of tears
  • Tali Tamir
  • 2016 →
Khen Shish's Tunisian Bride, much like the bride in the well-known play by Nissim Aloni, joins an age-old array of brides who have dressed in their most elegant wedding gowns and as their veil …read more
  • I DIDN’T HAVE THE HEART TO WAKE YOU
  • Naomi Aviv
  • 2013 →
She shows up to our meeting with a flower again, offering it with a delicate gesture and a benevolent smile. One flower with a long stem. A Gerbera. Thirteen years ago, when she started exhibiting …read more
  • impaired beauty and the dark side
  • Emanuela Calò
  • 2013 →
The master narrative underlying Khen Shish's works is the great oscillation between beauty and the ongoing attempt to mutilate it. Her obsessively recurring image bank is subject to constant …read more
  • darkness made visible
  • yham hameiri
  • 2010 →
Even an exhibition in which she is praised as one of Israel's foremost artists gives little comfort to Khen Shish, and may actually heighten her anxieties. "I paint and rub out, paint and rub out," …read more
  • LEA NIKEL AND KHEN SHISH: IN THE BLACK DISTANCE
  • Naomi Aviv
  • 2010 →
The joy of painting, the physical pleasure of making it, the mental freedom and the bodily liberation… And on the other hand – the compulsion to turn up each morning in front of the empty canvas or …read more
  • KHEN SHISH’S PINK-BLACK THEOLOGY OR THE VISUAL PRESENTATION OF UN-NAMIMG
  • Ktzia alon
  • 2008 →
Khen Shish cuts the gallery space with large-scale paintings, a partition made of construction planks, and flattened cardboard boxes in an installation consisting of a work table and a “boat” which …read more
  • DEMONS
  • Ktzia Alon, Dalia Markovich
  • 2006 →
In the exhibition at the Art Gallery, University of Haifa, Khen Shish unfolds an uncanny, overwhelming typology of the powers of horror: all-devouring holes and black sun, spiders and cockroaches, …read more
  • ON EXCESS AND RENOUNCIATION
  • Ruti Direktor
  • 2006 →
BACK TO SAFED Khen Shish was born in Safed. In her childhood, she recounts, she used to wander in the wadis, by herself, daydreaming in reverie, collecting leaves and flowers, cutting papers, …read more
  • On Khen Shish’s Birthday
  • Tal Ben Zvi
  • 2003 →
Khen Shish’s exhibition “Birthday” opened on her birthday. Shish, whose works have dealt extensively with the position of the biographical agent and with various aspects of Mizrahi identity,” (1) …read more