Ben-Tor is one of a number of prominent female artists inventing characters and playing them herself, her work combines performance with photography and/or video.
[1] Her themes draw on the social observation of daily life and gender roles, but dig with more risky commentary into issues relating to Jewishness and Israel, her country of origin where she graduated from the School of Visual Theatre.
Graduating then from Columbia University's MFA Program in 2006, she lives and works in New York and shows with Zach Feuer Gallery.
Underlying her outlandish caricatures and purposefully lowtech artifice of minimal make-up and settings, is a fusion of illusion and a stupid-smart whiplash arriving at unexpected views into the complexity of the human condition.
"[4] In October 2023, during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Ben-Tor published a satirical video titled "Dear Hamas..." in which she caricatures a "liberal academic" who is "on the fence about the massacre of the babies".