Ron Asulin
Born 1990 in Israel, lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Ron Asulin works as a sculpture and installation artist. These mediums serve for him as a physical confrontation with constructional questions, allowing him to operate within cultural, social, and political structures. In this manner, the manipulation of an object is for him a search for an escape from these structures, an exit out of one and into another. Through objects he collects from the street or second-hand stores, his work evokes the experience of displacement as a structure in itself, as a liminal space created after the loss of meaning, while seeking to locate a new definition.
Asulin is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and the MFA program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Upon graduation from Bezalel he won the Ehud Elhanani Prize for Excellence in Creativity, and Josef and Ada Bolaffio prize for excellence in theoretical studies. Asulin is a recipient of the Ministry of Culture Young Artist Award (2024) and the Elovik-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in Art (2024). His work has been exhibited in solo, duo, and group exhibitions, supported by grants from institutions such as the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, UCLA Nazarian Center, Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts and Rabinovich foundation.
Exhibitions at RawArt Gallery
Education
2022-2024 M.F.A, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
2017 Students Exchange Program, UDK, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
2014-2018 B.F.A, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Solo Exhibitions
2024 AMERIKA (UCLA Thesis Exhibition), New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S
2020 The Lift and the Swindler, Offnobank, Tel Aviv, curated by: Yoav Weinfeld and Omer Sheizaf
2018 Graduate Exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Group Exhibitions
2024 GLAMFA 2024, California State University, Long Beach, U.S
2024 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose, The Living Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, curated by: Hila Cohen Schneiderman
2024 Evil Root, Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem, curated by: Sally Haftel Naveh
2024 A Room with a View, Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S
2023 Black Star, curated by: Hadas Maor
2022 Shuttle | And the World was Pretty Wonderful, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger
2022 Archipelago, Moby Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Bat-Yam, curated by: Abraham Kritzman, Tal Yahas, Hila Cohen Schneiderman
2021 Chasing Pavements, Park HaMesila, Tel Aviv, curated by: Yoav weinfeld and Omer Sheizaf
2021 Risico, Atelier Shemi, Kabri, curated by: Smadar Schindler
2021 Black Rain, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv, curated by: Sally Haftel Naveh
2020 Ahitophel, The Third Floor on the Left Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Meital Aviram
2019 The Seventh Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, curated by: Hadas Maor and Abraham Kritzman
2019 Beauty Salon, Balconet Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Ron Asulin
2018 Properties, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, curated by: Rinat Edelstein and Le Hee Shulov
2018 Emergence Holiday, Alliance House, Jerusalem, curated by: Paz Sher
2017 Evert’s Zimmer, Evert Wall, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2017 Rundgang, UDK, Berlin Academy, Berlin
Grants & Awards
2024 Elovik-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in Art, Bezalel Academy, Israel
2024 Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Israel
2024 Project Grant, Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, Israel
2024 Graduate Student Research Grant, UCLA Nazarian Center, USA
2024 Research Grant for Student Excellence, Alan D. Leve Center, UCLA, USA
2023 Study Abroad Grant, America-Israel Cultural foundation, Israel
2021 Project Grant, Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts
2021 Rabinovitch Fund- Special Grant for an Art Project during Covid-19 crisis, Tel Aviv Municipality Art Department, Tel Aviv
2020 Rabinovitch Fund, Tel Aviv Municipality Art Department, Tel Aviv
2018 Ehud Elhanani Prize, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2018 Josef and Ada Bolaffio prize for excellence, History and Theory department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2018 10X10 Bezalel Conference for Excellence -Selected exhibition by department head, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2018 Ehud Elhanani Prize, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2018 10X10 Bezalel Conference for Excellence -Selected exhibition by department head, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Press
2021 Hagay Hacohen, ‘Black Rain’ exhibition descends on Tel Aviv's Edmond de Rothschild Center, The Jerusalem Post, 19.4.22, ((Eng))
2020 Avi Fitshon, האוצרת שעזבה את ביתה כדי לפנות בו מקום לתערוכה, Haaretz, 20.5.20, ((Heb))
2020 Ouzi Zur, One Eye Closed | A Lion Dipped in Milk, Haaretz, 23.11.2020, ((Heb))
2020, The Next Thing: Ron Asulin, The Lift and the Swindler at Offnobank, Ana Bershtansky, ((Heb))
2020, What's Up // Ron Asulin, 6.11.2020, ((Heb))
2018 Jessica Steinberg, Historic Jerusalem neighborhood of Talbieh at center of Manofim art festival, The Times of Israel, 20.10.18, ((Eng))
Collections
Private collections