Ariel Caine

Ariel Caine is a London based, Jerusalem-born artist and researcher. His practice centres on the intersection of spatial (three-dimensional) photography, modelling and survey technologies, and their operation within the production of cultural memories and national narratives. An important component of his work in recent years is the construction of a collaborative work practice of photography as an act of aesthetic-political resistance on behalf of civil society.

Ariel is a Lecturer in Media Practice at the Department of Culture, Communication & Media at UCL. 

In January 2023, alongside Kineret Lourie, he founded CHEMIST Gallery in southeast London.

Ariel received his PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London where from 2016–21 he was a project coordinator and researcher at the Forensic Architecture Agency. In 2021–22 he received a postdoctoral research grant from Gerda Henkel Stiftung as part of the speculative cameras and post-visual security projects at Tampere University (Finland).  During 2022-23 he was a post-doctoral research fellow at ICI-Berlin.

His works have been exhibited widely, in museums and galleries such as Tate Britain (Turner prize nomination with Forensic Architecture), Kunsthal Charlottenburg, MACBA (Barcelona), CCA (Tel Aviv) and Digital Art Lab (Holon). His writings appear in publications such as Journal of Visual Cultures, Philosophy of Photography Journal, Jerusalem Quarterly, Photo Researcher, and KALEIDOSCOPE. Ariel taught at The Royal College of Art (London), ISIA (Urbino), and the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design (Jerusalem).