Ronen Gamil is a visual artist and public horticulturist focused on urban sociopolitical problems of housing and habitat. His practice encompasses diverse media, including installation, landscape design, sculpture, furniture-making, digital drawing, and printmaking. Recently he has focused on catalyzing immersive, contemplative experiences that engage viewers in challenging issues of class inequity and underrepresented groups, both human and nonhuman. Gamil focuses on the nexus of urban sociopolitical problems and the global environmental context of habitat for humans, wildlife, and plants. Accessibility for broad audiences and the high honor of working for the public are constant guidelines for the artist. Over the last six years, his public horticulture practice fuses design, craft, science, and art, to produce large, educational habitat-plantings as a socio-ecological public art practice. 

Gamil has exhibited his installations at Socrates Sculpture Park, Prospect Park, and FiveMyles. He is currently a gardener at NYC Parks and a horticulture instructor at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. As Horticulture Supervisor for Prospect Park, Gamil designed and led the creation of several large native plant gardens. In 2019, his textile installation Threshold for the Brooklyn Public Library’s Open Air University formed a liminal, contemplative passage as a space to meditate on international migration. Gamil’s mixed-media installation Home(-) and Garden connected chronic mass homelessness with NYC’s thriving luxury apartment real estate market and the city’s ongoing affordability crisis. Gamil received the Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park in 2018. His work has been featured in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Public Radio International, BK Reader, and artdaily.com. He earned a BA in 2008 and a Master of Urban Planning in 2009 from the City College of New York.