About
Born Israel 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 Pavilion, The 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