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About

Born 1990, lives and works in London and Tel-Aviv

Founder Balcont - independent non-profit art space on 53 Yehuda Halevi Street, Tel-Aviv (Est. Aug 2018).

 

 

Education

2021-2023  MFA Slade, UCL, London

2013-2016  BAFA Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

2011-2012  Hamidrasha College of Art, Israel

Solo Exhibitions

2021  Conventional Signs, Bar David Museum, Kibbutz Baram. Curator: Avi Ifargen (Catalogue)

2019  Eye Of The Storm, Balcont, Tel Aviv. Curator: Yair Barak

2015 Titulus, Linea De Costa, Cadiz

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023   Baggage Claim, Staffordshire St Gallery, London

           Eviction Notice, Pocket Trap Contemporary, London

           52%25%20Spiritual, UCL, London (online exhibition)

2022  Yellow Brick Road, Bar David Museum, Kibbutz Baram

          Scoppio Terzo - There Are More Things, Terni

          I Knock on Your Skin, SET Woolwich, London

2021  The Mind Melts Before It Melds Into Earth, Uncomfortable Hope Online PavilionThe Wrong Biennale

          Thanks for Sharing!!, SET New Cross, London

          #ReclaimCulturalSurplus, OnCurating Project Space, Zurich

          Colour/Collage/Poetry, Slade School of Fine Art, London (online exhibition)

2020  The Israeli Uncanny, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa

          Liquid Logic, Binyamin Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2019  The Refrigerator #3, The Refrigerator, Tel-Aviv

2018  Shop it!, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa

2017  Life Live, Cuckoo's Nest, Tel-Aviv

          Prime Time, Central Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2016  Whatever Comes in Hand, Alliance House, Jerusalem

          Liminal States, Gallery On the Corner, London

          Breaking Borders, New River Studios, London

2015  Cells, The Old Police Station, London

          INFINITY , Brixton Railway Arches, London

2014  In Between, A side B side Gallery, London

          Slippers, Hoxton Basement , London

          In Between, TIL The invisible line Gallery, London

          Random Rules, La Culture, Tel-Aviv

Awards & Residencies

2023 Gilbert Bayes Scholarship Award

2020 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts

2017-2018 Gabirol Project - Tel-Aviv Municipality studio stipend

2015 Linea De Costa, Cadiz, Spain

Press & Publications

2022 Conventional Signs Exhibition Catalogue, Bar-David Museum

2021  KubaParis international platform for contemporary art - Thanks for Sharing!!

          Banditka Magazine - The Next Thing: Conventional Signs - Solo Exhibition

2020 Jerusalem Post - The Israeli Uncanny review

2019  Harama Magazine- Issue #25 Fortune Telling

2018  Portfolio Magazine - What's up | Ilona Balaga

          Shop it! Haifa Museums, Exhibition Catalogue

2014  44 Degrees online art magazine - This Is Music Issue

Contact

 ilona.bala@gmail.com

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