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Sagie Azoulay

Born 1979 in Israel, lives and works in Tel Aviv.


Sagie Azoulay holds a BFA and an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He is the recipient of the 2019 Prize to Encourage Creativity by the Ministry of Culture, the Osnat Moses Young Artist award (2014), and the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Award for Excellence in Painting (2012).

He has had solo shows at Hamidrasha Gallery in Tel Aviv (2016), the Artists’ House in Jerusalem (2014), Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (2013) and Sommer Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (2015). His works have been shown in various group exhibitions in venues such as Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Vacation Gallery in New York, MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam), Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Ashdod Art Museum, Bar David Museum of Art and Judaica and the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv.
 

Education

2012-2014 MFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

2008-2012 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem


Solo Exhibitions

2021 Doe of the Dawn - public space mural project, Beit Hagefen Art Gallery, Haifa, curated by: Yael Messer

2020 Ernie | אריק, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger (Catalog)

2016 Sha'arayim, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Boaz Arad

2015 Cut Content, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv

2014 Mozes Prize Exhibition, Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem, curated by: Eli Petel

2013 Garage-Hole, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv


Group Exhibitions

2023 Al Halal, Bat Yam Museum of Art, Bat Yam, curated by: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman

2021 My Name is Red, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, curated by: Irena Gordon

2021 End of Season, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, curated by: Orit Mor

2021 Skein: new acquisitions for the Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Israeli Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, curated by: Dalit Matatyahu and Amit Shemma

2019 Cafe Anxiety Drawing Club, Vacation Gallery, New York

2019 Artist's Wall, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv

2019 No Body, No Land, No Blood, No Country, Bar David Museum of Art and Judaica, Baram, curated by: Avi Ifergan

2019 Raw Art, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger

2018 Up to the First Touch, Atelier Shemi, Cabri, curated by: Smadar Schindler

2018 Remotely Related: Israeli Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, curated by: Ellen Ginton

2018 Miniment, Hansen House, Policy and Theory of the Arts Program at Bezalel, Jerusalem

2018 Placeless: Following Jacqueline Kahanoff, The New Gallery in Musrara, Jerusalem, curated by: Irena Gordon

2018 Real Time, Third Floor on the Left, Tel Aviv, curated by: Meital Aviram

2018 Plenty, MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam), Bat Yam, curated by: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman

2017 The Heart is a Lonely, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, curated by: Eran Litvin

2017 Anthology, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, curated by: Roni Cohen Binyamini and Yuval Beaton

2017 Cherries, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Boaz Arad

2017 Dry, Beit Ariela Library, Tel Aviv, curated by: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman

2016 Peninsula, Loving Art. Making Art., Tel Aviv, curated by: Roni Hajaj

2016 The Winner's Tribute, Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem, curated by: Avi Sabach

2016 Take Painting, Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, curated by: Larry Abramson

2016 Abstract Relief, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Irit Tal

2016 Painting Camp, The Negev Museum, Be'er Sheva, curated by: David Wakstein

2015 Salon, HaCubia, Jerusalem, curated by: Dan Orimian and Edna Ochana

2015 Good Taste, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Boaz Arad

2014 Beads Fragments, The J.R. Elyachar Center, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva

2014 Until You Get Out of My Voice, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, curated by: Roni Cohen Binyamini and Yuval Beaton

2013 Wild Card, Tel Aviv Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv, curated by: Avi Zafran and Vered Zafran Gani

2013 Fresh Paint #6, Contemporary Art Fair, Tel Aviv

2010 Israeli Recordsand Local Scratches, BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Ruti Direktor

2010 For Your Eyes Only, Serge Tiroche House, Jaffa


Screenings

2011 29 Raziel st. Jaffa Clock Square, JCC, New York


Grants & Awards

2019 Prize to Encourage Creativity, Ministry of Culture and Sport

2017 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

2017 Artist Career Development Program, Artis/Asylum-Arts/Artport

2015 Ruhrtriennale Masterclass,

2014 Osnat Mozes Prize for a Young Artist,

2013 Academic Excellence Award, MFA Program, Bezalel Academy


Residencies & Fellowships

2021 Artist Incubators, Mifal HaPais, Museums of Bat Yam

2012 Loren and Mitchell Perser Award for Excellence in Painting, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem


Press

2020 Ido Gordon and Arnon Ben-Dror, Chapter 9: Sagie Azoulay, Dvarim Baolam, 21.9.2020, (Heb - Audio)

2020 Joy Bernard, Sagie Azoulay attempts to imbue Sesame Street with sorrow, Portfolio, 4.10.2020, (Heb)

2020 Ouzi Zur, Ernie, where's Bert?, Haaretz, 16,11,2020, (Heb)

2020 Gideon Ofrat, The Comic and the Tragic, Gideon Ofrat's Archive, 22.11.2020, (Heb)







Projects

2015 Combina, (Dir Shauloff / Stange) Ruhrtriennale, StudioNaxos, Frankfurt, Germany. (Set Design)

2014 The General and The Sea, Batsheva Dance Company, Tel Aviv. (Masks and Props Design)





Collections

Ashdod Art Museum

Bank Leumi Collection

Rappaport Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Knesset Parliament Collection

Private collections