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.
Exhibitions at RawArt Gallery
Artist Websites
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
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 Plenty, MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam), Bat Yam, curated by: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman
2018 Real Time, Third Floor on the Left, Tel Aviv, curated by: Meital Aviram
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 Up to the First Touch, Atelier Shemi, Cabri, curated by: Smadar Schindler
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 Take Painting, Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, curated by: Larry Abramson
2016 Painting Camp, The Negev Museum, Be'er Sheva, curated by: David Wakstein
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 Abstract Relief, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Irit Tal
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 Fresh Paint #6, Contemporary Art Fair, Tel Aviv
2013 Wild Card, Tel Aviv Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv, curated by: Avi Zafran and Vered Zafran Gani
2010 For Your Eyes Only, Serge Tiroche House, Jaffa
2010 Israeli Recordsand Local Scratches, BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Ruti Direktor
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