Naharin Shech is a multimedia artist and scholar currently living and working in the U.S. Her artistic background includes theatre, dance, performance art, sculpture, painting, photography, video art, and VR work. She obtained her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2016 and is a recipient of the John Pfahl Scholarship Award. At present she is pursuing her doctoral studies at University of Colorado Boulder.   

Influenced by her multicultural background, Naharin’s artwork explores tensions within the spectrum of femininity and the subject of voyeurism. Her current research focuses on the ostensible tension that exists between the concepts of beauty and sublimity as they arise in aesthetics and philosophy of art, on the one hand, and feminist visual theory and artwork, on the other. She is particularly interested in examining how the distinctions between beauty and sublimity influence (mis)representations, and subsequent impressions, of the female-qua-human experience and of mental disorders as manifested within and via the female subject and body.