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...
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...
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...
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
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...
There is a painting of the two-thousand-year-old Mattanchery Jews Street in Cochin, which is in the Indian state of Kerala, Street with few people out in the sun. It's just like any other street in India, no matter where...
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...
In a new show at the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, Karen York, the museum's director of collections and exhibitions, talks to people about how the two groups have a lot in common, like their traditions and how...
From the 16th century, the Kadavumbagam synagogue was on the edge of the Jewish neighborhood in the Indian city of Cochin. It was built over the ruins of an even older synagogue. It had a beautiful ceiling made of...