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Granite Amit is an Israeli born therapist and an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works currently in Chicago, USA. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in places such as Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Edinburgh, Washington, Toronto, and Hamburg. Her work has been shown at the Chicago Humanity Festival, and has been widely reviewed in various journals such as the Chicago Tribune and the French L’Humanité, among others.

As an activist Amit is involved in various art groups, such as “Piece Process” a group of artists of Palestinian and Israeli/Jewish origin who are committed to dialogue and have exhibited together in venues across the USA

Amit initiated outreach projects with previously incarcerated clients, youth at risk, and with residents of a domestic violence shelter. She integrates her training as a therapist and exhibits and performs with her clients in professional art venues such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The Hamlin Theater, ARC gallery, and The Logan Center at the University of Chicago.

Amit’s work, which includes performance and installation, has strong textual and narrative components, using projections of animations and of real-time interactive animation reflecting the movement of the dancers. Her narratives concern social and political issues, which she connects to broader, more general questions of humanity and the human condition. She is inspired by art that has the sophistication, focus, and warmth to communicate both an immediate emotional experience and an analytical description of that experience.

“Granite Amit’s ‘Whatever is Within is also Without’ gives a strong sense of a powerful artist, caught at a powerful moment, making a profound statement.” 

– Alan G. Artner, The Chicago Tribune.

“In ‘Grapes of Wrath, Granite Amit uses the physical effects of transparency and layering to demonstrate the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian territorial conflict. . . . Her artistic statement conveys the difficulty of discerning one area from another expressing the conflicting points of view regarding borderlines.” 

– Debbie Michaud, Athens Banner.

 “The wonderful thing about Amit is that on one hand she is rooted in the Hebrew tradition,” says Rabbi Wolf. “She knows the language, she knows the Scripture… It’s very old and it’s also very hip. And I think she brings it off.”

– Soo Ji Min,  The Chicago Tribune