Biography

Ayala Serfaty was born in Tel Aviv, in 1962. After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Middlesex Polytechnic in London, she has lived and worked there since the early 1990′s.

Over the past twenty years Ayala Serfaty has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Her solo shows have included venues such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Museum Beelden Aan Zee, Den Haag, Netherlands. She has participated internationally in group shows including London Design Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nuremberg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Ayala Serfaty’s work is found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Her latest commissioned work was recently installed for display at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Alongside her artistic work Serfaty designs lighting and furniture for Aqua Creations Lighting & Furniture Atelier. The atelier has earned international recognition for its interdisciplinary innovative work. Ayala Serfaty was awarded the Israel Minister of Education and Culture’s annual Design Award in 2006.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011    “In Vein”, Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York
2009    Cristina Grajales Gallery, Design Miami
2009    “Soma”, Beelden Aan Zee Museum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2008    “Soma”, Assia Hall, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2007    “Soma: The Beauty of the Moon through Clouds”, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan
2000   “Evolution 19”, Meta Gallery, Milan
1998    “Aqua Creations”, Gallery Blanchart, Milan
1998    “a dialogue”, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg
1997    “Aqua Creations”, Gallery Inter Nos, Milan
1994    “Sculptural Furniture”, Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011    “New Olds – Design Between Tradition and Innovation”, Design Museum Holon
2011    Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan
2010    Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, “Re-Location”, Tel Aviv
2010    Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010, Design Museum, London
2006    “Solos: Design from Israel”, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York
2006    “Surfaces…”, VIA Gallery, Paris
2005 AIDA (Association of Israel’s Decorative Arts) booth at COLLECT Expo, Victoria &Albert Museum, London
2004 AIDA booth at SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) Expo, Chicago
2003    “Design Museums of the World”, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nuremberg
2003    “Nature Highly Artificial”, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
2002    “Carrefour de la Création”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1996    “Design im Wandel”, Übersee Museum, Bremen
1995    “Design-Time”, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
1994    “a Dialogue between Art and Design”, Janco Dada Museum, Ein-Hod
1991     “The Next Generation”, Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv