Ilit Azoulay
Ilit Azoulay is an Israeli artist. She is best known for panoramic photo montages, depicting arrangements of different objects and materials she has collected from demolished buildings around the southern districts of Tel Aviv. She visited the buildings before demolition, exploring their rooms and examining their walls. After the demolition, Azoulay returned, searching through the remains and gathering pieces of them. In the studio, she sorted and cataloged the findings. Then photographs are made separately and used for collage preparation.
Biography
Azoulay was born in the Jaffa district of Tel Aviv, Israel. She received a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1998 and MFA of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv in 2010. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.She had solo exhibitions in Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art as well as Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv. She also participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world. She is currently a resident at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. She has works in permanent collections of museums as well as in private collections in Israel and abroad.
Exhibitions
;Solo exhibitions2017 No Thing Dies, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2015 a 7th option., Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2014 Implicit Manifestation, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
Shifting Degrees of Certainty, Kunst Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Back to Berlin, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
Les Recontres d’Arles Prix Découverte 2014, Arles, France; nominated by curator Quentin Bajac
2013 Public Installation, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto Lingusitic Turn, Braverman Gallery, Tel
Aviv, Israel
Room #8, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA
2011 The Keys, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA
2010 The Keys, The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2008 Findings, Minshar for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Roi Kuper
2007 Selected Works 1998-2007, Wizo Haifa Academy of Design and Education, Haifa, Israel 2006 I Placed a Jar,
Dollinger Art Project, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Liav Mizrahi
2002 Salvia, The Gallery in Borochov, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Roi Kuper
1998 Final exhibition Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Photography Dept.
Jerusalem, Israel
;Group exhibitions
2017 No Place Like Home, The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Local Compilation, Ashod Art Museum, Ashod, Israel Disorder, Prix Pictet
Cycle
Exhibition, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
2016 Photography Today: Distant Realities, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany Under the Press of
History, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
Disorder, Prix Pictet Cycle Exhibition, MAXXI Museum, Rome; LUMA Weitab, Zurich; The International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva; CAB Art Center, Brussels; The Municipal Gallery of Athens,
Athens, Greece
BENE-F-ACTION, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Photographers Photograph Photographers, REA Photography House, Tel Aviv 2015 Ocean of Images: New
Photography 2015, MoMA, New York
Party Beuys, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Affinity Atlas, The Frances Young Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Places Precarious Fields, Fotofestival Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Disorder: Prix Pictet Finalists Exhibition, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France The Biography of
Things, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia
2014 Prix Decouverte, Arles. Nominated by Quentin Bajac
Until I Get Out of My Voice, Ashdod Art Museum, Israel
Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, Florida Atlantic University Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
Paris Photo, Andrea Meislin Gallery, Paris, France
Decadal Variations, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
The Double Exposure Project, Shpilman Gallery for Photography, Tel Aviv, Israel
Implicit Manifestation, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel, 2014.
Shifting Degrees of Certainty, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2014.
Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award, Arles, France, 2014
2013 Yona Fischer; Curator, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel
Linguistic Turn, Bravernman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013.
Public Installation, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada, 2013.
2012 The Aipad Photography Show 2012, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York Misplaced, Displaced, Replaced,
Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Pluriel - A panorama of contemporary Israeli artists, Villa Emerige, Paris, France, Curators:
Nathalie Mamane- Cohen & Nathalie Zaquin-Boulakia,
Paris Photo 2012, Andrea Meislin Gallery, Paris, France
Eyes in the back of the head, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Private/Corporate VII, The Doron
Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv, in dialogue with the Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary,
Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany, Curators: Dr. Renate Wiehager and Tal Yahas
Winners 2011, The Ministry of Culture and Sport Prizes in Art and Design, Petach Tikva 2012 Museum of Art,
Petach Tikva, Israel, Curator: Naomi Aviv
Accelerating Toward Apocalypse, works from the Doron Sebbag art collection, Givon Art Forum, Tel-Aviv,
Israel, curator: Tal Yahas
The AIPAD Photography show 2012, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA
2011 NADA Art Fair, ARTIS Contemporary, Miami Beach, USA
Paris Photo 2011, Andrea Meislin Gallery, Paris, France
The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Curator: Nili Goren
Magic Lantern, Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel, Curators: Suzanne Landow and Amitai Mendelson
The Fabulous Eight or The Mysteries Of The Enchanted House, 27 Hissin st. Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Sarit
Shapira
Annual Report 3, Kayma Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Numerator and Denominator, Herzeliya Museum of Art,
Curators: Dalia Levin, Tal Bechler, Zeli Gorewich and Tsibi Geva
Action. Photography, Dan Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Curator: Ravit Harari Borders & Jenna Hanson and Gali
Blay
Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Academic College of Tel-aviv-Yaffo, Israel, Curator: Tamar Drezner
Fresh Paint #4, Art Fair, Tel Aviv, Israel
Rear Window, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Ravit Harari
Swarze Vilde Chayes, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Liav Mizrachi
Indisplace, Gal-on Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Ronit Eden
Beauty, Florentin 45 Contemporary Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Roi Kuper
Israeli Fabric, Knesset Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Curator: Sharon Sofer
2010 New in Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Curator: Nissan Perez
Do your action`s mention, your heart`s intentions?, Design Space, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Urs Kuenzi.
Summer exhibition, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Be my guest, Diaghilev Hotel, hosting contemporary art, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Keren Bar-Gil
Salon, Apart Art gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Rotem Ritov 2009 Monochrome, Levontin 7, Tel Aviv, Israel,
Curator: Shay Zilberman
White Night, Video work at Kayma gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Bread and Roses, Minshar for Art gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Compassion and Rage, Minshar for Art gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Ronit Yedahaya
2008 Art Harvest, Art Farm Residency, Nebraska, USA, Curator: Ed Dadey
Facing the Sea, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Israel, Curator: Yehudit Metzkel
Snap Shot, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ofakim, Israel
Tea for Two, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel, Curator: Yehudit Metzkel
2005 Urim, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Curator: Amitai Mendelson
Objects and Compassion, Gallery 33, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Dror Burstein
Four Houses, Mishkenot Sha’ananim Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, Curator: Irena Gordon Four Walls, The
Gallery of Kibbutz Nahshon, Israel, Curator: Yael Keini
2004 Under the Surface, Jah-Pan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Tali Ben-Nun. 2001 Scratched Apple, Young
Yiddish Space, Jerusalem, Israel
Awards
2015 The Prix Pictet global award in photography and sustainability2013 Mifal Hapayis Award for Arts and Culture
2011 Israeli Culture and Sports Ministry Prize
The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2010 Gerald Levy Prize for a Young Photographer, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Award for excellent achievements, MFA program Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,
Jerusalem
2008 America-Israel cultural foundation prize
Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New YorkThe Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
SIP- The Shpilman Institute for Photography The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Herzelia Museum, Israel
Knesset Israel collection Anthony Podesta Collection
Yona Fischer Collection
Mandel Collection
Elstein Collection
Rivka Saker Collection
Igal Ahouvi Collection
Doron Sabag Collection