Shay Alony is a contemporary artist and cultural activist who lives and works in Israel.
“I’m often asked if I’m an artist or a designer, but I prefer the term “creator”. People have a tendency to divide things up, but I’m drawn to an earlier stage, before the point at which we determine that ‘this is art, and it goes in a museum’, and ‘this is design, and it’s for the home’. I can’t separate design and art—I think about it all, in parallel.”
Shay Alony’s artwork is inspired by his research on the personal, cultural, and figurative realms depicted in mediums of sculpture and installation. Read More
Alony began his artistic career in bronze, as an apprentice to the renowned Uri Katzenstein, but then focused on other materials that gave him more flexibility as a young artist. Read More
Twenty years later, he found himself drawn again to the material that began his artistic journey. “When Pasal contacted me, the material felt very right. It awakened a kind of nostalgia and a deep curiosity within me. When you have a question mark, it makes you want to investigate, and I’m interested in investigating what I can do with bronze, how I can work with the material, with the foundry,” says Alony. “We think of bronze as massive, but bronze is a type of shell of the object itself, and I wanted to focus on that aspect of it in this project.”The focus on the shell-like quality of bronze led him to choose works like masks for this collection. “Masks are another layer of the body. I’m looking to give the observer that understanding—even when an object is made of something massive, like bronze, it is still a shell.”
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Unique contemporary art sculpture of shield made from bronze.
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EDUCATION
2004-2005: MFA, Haifa University, Israel
2003-2004: “Fifth Year” Annual Art Program, Kalisher College, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999-2003: B.Des., The College of Management, Tel Aviv
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2014: Israeli Culture Administration, Ministry of Culture Prize
2009: Israeli Culture Administration, Young Artist’s Prize
2004: The Department of Creative Art, Haifa University, Best Student Award
2001-2003: The US-Israel Sharet Cultural Fund, Presentation of Projects in Architecture
2002: Asiau Fund, Scholarship for Excellence
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015: “Shield of Achilles”, Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015: “Bonundary Line”, The new workshop Ramat Eliyahu, Rishon Lezion, Israel
2014: “Titans”, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011: “Visions”, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007: The Fest – Blurrr 6, the 6th Biennial for Performance Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006: ZOLOTO, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005: PRETZEL, Haifa University Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2004: 12:00, Haifa University Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2003: COME TO ME…, Rachel and Israel Polak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014: “Abdomen”, Out of Body Fragmentation in Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2012
2011: Intervals, ST-ART Residence, Jaffa, Israel
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003: Block 13 – Blurrr 4, The 4th Biennial for Performance Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
