She graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and MFA studieds at the Film Department of the Tel Aviv University. Throughout 2011, she has been a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Her work has been shown internationally at various exhibitions and venues, including the 2006 Biennale of Sydney, the 2009 Istanbul Biennial, Berlin Biennial 2010, Manifesta 8 (2010), Israel Museum, Centre Pompidou, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Art in General, New York; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Tel Aviv Museum, Tate Modern and Jeu de Paume. She has received a number of prizes and scholarships, among them the Minister of Culture Prize and the Anselm Kiefer prize.
In 2009 she initiated together with Maayan Amir "The Exterritory Project" on which they have won an award (2011) for young artist from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Sela teaches at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College, Israel.
Ruti sela solo exhibition
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherland.
Image Blockade, CCA, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2013
For The Record, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, Czech Republic.
2014
Bat Yam Museum, Israel.
2011
BG-HOV-PWC, Kadist Foundation, Paris, France.
“Beyond Guilt”, 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland.
“Beyond Guilt”, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, Canada.
2010
“Beyond Guilt”, 1646 Gallery, The Hague, the Netherlands.
“Time to Dance”, Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain.
“El Palabrero”, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2008
“Rare Medium”, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv (artist curator).
2006
“Cordova”, The Center for Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
False Flags, Pelican Bomb Gallery, New Orleans, U.S.A.
Tanzquartier Wien, Austria.
Staring Back at the Sun:
Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brazil.
New Museum, New York, Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
International House, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
Koffler Center of the Arts, Toronto, Canada.
2015
New Museum Triennial, New York, U.S.A.
Travesty Advanced, GFZK, Leipzig, Germany.
The School of Kyiv – Kyiv Biennial, Ukraine.
Secrets, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2014
Festival d’Arts Contemporains des Comores, Union of Comoros, Africa.
About the Tragic, Center for Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Spaceship Module, New Museum, New York, USA.
Unusual Suspects, Les Vagamondes Festival, La Filature, France.
Vidéogr@phie(s), Liège, Belgium.
Forensis, HKW, Berlin, Germany.
2013
Changer d’image, Mumok, Vienna, Austria.
Le Pont, MAC, Marseille Museum, France.
The Way We Are, Gallery Zilberman Istanbul, Turkey.
The Naked Man, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
The Naked Man, Lentos Art Museum in Linz.
Retour de Israel, Jeune Création, Marseille, France.
Almedalsveckan, BAC – Baltic Art Center (screening), Sweden
