A new book, Jews and the Indian National Art Project, talks about how Jews helped make Indian art. A piece from Siona Benjamin's Rang de Nila is shown. She is a member of the Bene Israel community. She uses...
Amulet for pregnant women and newborn babies to keep them safe. In Kochi, Kerala, India, these were found. Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Spanish, as well as the Hebrew square script
Diwali, which is celebrated by Indic people all over the world,...
CA – 13 FEBRUARY 2018 (THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.) At the California Lutheran University, an artist who was raised Jewish but attended Catholic and Zoroastrian schools in predominantly Hindu and Muslim India will share her art, lead a painting workshop,...
I spent a day in Montclair, New Jersey with Siona Benjamin last month while researching a piece for The Forward about Indian Jewish cuisine. Benjamin, a home cook who grew up in Mumbai's Jewish community, explained how to create...
Although many Jewish contemporary artists have achieved recognition at the Jewish cultural scene, one such artist is Siona Benjamin, a young Jewish Indian artist whose new exhibition, “Finding Home,” was recently launched at the JCC of Manhattan. Her work...
As a Jewish artist who grew up in India and has since moved to the United States, I focus on my work in cross-cultural and transcultural art. I help you bridge the gap between modern and traditional by giving...
Jewish woman of color: Siona Benjamin's art shows how she was raised in India, how she lives in the United States, and how she feels about Israel.
Blue people are different. The color blue can be found in the sky...
Siona Benjamin
European painters such as Chagall, Liebermann, Pissarro, and Soutine are often connected with Jewish art. Siona Benjamin, a Bombay-born painter whose work incorporates Jewish, Indian, and American themes, dispels the myth...
Siona Benjamin, a Jewish-Indian artist, uses the imagery of blue-skinned individuals in her paintings. It's both a metaphor and a reflection of her upbringing.
She writes, "I regularly look down at my skin and it has turned blue." “It tends...
Siona Benjamin's art contains an intriguing array of cultural symbols. Take, for example, Finding Home No. 46, "Tikkun ha-Olam" (2000). The blue-hued, many-armed central figure is stylized to look like a Hindu goddess, yet her arms are in the...