Born 1991 in Israel. Currently based in New York City. Rivlin received her MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University in 2019 and her BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in 2016. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in the New York area including Surface, Surface, SVA Chelsea Gallery; The Tide, SVA Flatiron Gallery; Seeking Space, David & Schweitzer Contemporary; Within a Circuit, NARS Foundation Gallery; One Earth One Consciousness, BronxArtSpace; and Nasty Women, Knockdown Center. Her performance work has been featured at Torus Porta. Rivlin is the recipient of the SVA Fine Arts grant, 2014, in addition to the SVA Bronze Casting grant for the MANA Contemporary Ben Keating Foundry. She is a current artist in residence at the NARS Foundation Residency, Brooklyn. Rivlin’s film and animation work has been included in international film festivals such as Canberra Short Film Festival, International New York Film Festival, Athens AnimFest, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Los Angeles’ SEEfest and Spain’s Animac.

Education

2019
MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY

2016
BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2019
It All Trembles, curated by Nicole Kaack, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2017
Re:Re | Bat-Ami Rivlin and Corsin Billeter, curated by Eriola Pira, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2016
Untitled: Fleshy Objects, Arts, Letters & Numbers Residency, Averill Park, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
Battleship Potemkin, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Landmarks, Bahnhof Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Summer School, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wallach Gallery, curated by Regine Basha, Columbia University, New York, NY
In Response: Leonard Cohen, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

2018
42/18, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
feeling that other day running underneath this one, Time Square Space, curated by Sara O’Keeffe, New York, NY
Columbia MFA First Year Thesis Exhibition, Wallach Gallery, curated by Natalie Bell, Columbia University, New York, NY

2017
Residency Show and Open Studios, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Within a Circuit, NARS Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Nasty Women Exhibition, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY

2016
The Everything, Arts, Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY
Making the Future, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
One Earth One Consciousness, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
The Tide, SVA Flatiron Gallery, Chelsea, NY

2015
Surface, Surface, SVA Gallery, Chelsea, NY

Honors & Awards

2018
David Berg Foundation Scholarship, Columbia University, New York, NY
Artis Fund Scholarship, Columbia University, New York, NY

2017
Visual Arts Department Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
Merit Scholarship UrbanGlass workshops, Brooklyn, NY
NARS Foundation Artist Residency, New York, NY

2016
Peripheral Visions Arts, Foundation Prize Winner, Publication Fellows 2016
Arts, Letters and Numbers, Artist in Residence, Averill Park, NY
School of Visual Arts, Bronze Casting Grant Ben Keating
Foundry at MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
School of Visual Arts Sculpture and New Media Residency, Chelsea, NY

2014
Fine Arts Departmental Grant SVA, New York, NY
Arts Abroad Program: “Printmaking in Cuba” at El Taller
Experimental de Gráfica, Havana, Cuba

Selected Press & Publications

2019
West, Tanner, “Editor’s Pick: 19 Things Not To Miss In New York’s Art World This Week“, Artnet News, June 10, 2019.
Strick, Charlotte, “Staff Picks: Ballet, Bob Dylan, and Black Smudges”, The Paris Review, June 21, 2019.
Balasundar, Gautam, “Urban Verve”, Office Magazine, July 01, 2019.
“Bahnhof Gallery Explores Public Urban Structures In 'Landmarks' Group Exhibition”, Go To Ground, June 17, 2019.
Rubinstien, Carrie, “Artistic Waste: Bat-Ami Rivlin”, Yediot.
America Basha, Regine, Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition.

2018
Bell, Natalie, Columbia MFA First Year Thesis Exhibition Catalogue.

2017
Gleeson, Scott, “Bat-Ami Rivlin In The Flesh”, Peripheral Vision Arts, February 25, 2017.

2016
“Art Uncovered episode: Bat-Ami Rivlin”, BTR Today radio.
"Under the Radar: BAT AMI RIVLIN | HANNA WASHBURN | E-OUL”, ArtSlant.
“Entrée / Encore Presents Re:Re | Bat-Ami Rivlin and Corsin Billeter”, NARS Foundation.
“Untitled: Fleshy Objects”, Arts, Letters, and Numbers Residency.

Film Projects

2018
A Prayer, Short film, Producer
- Official Selection, Moscow Jewish Film Festival, Moscow, Russia 2019
- Official Selection, Outfest, Los Angeles, CA 2018
- Official Selection, Newfest, New York, NY 2018

Curatorial Projects

2019
Re: ON SITE, Co-Curator, Columbia University Works In Progress
Program & ELM Foundation, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY
A Space To Fill, Guest Curator, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, LeRoy
Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University New York, NY