Born 1962, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Museum Collections
| Year | Museum | Piece | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Tel Aviv Museum of Art | Aqua Regia, 1996 | Acquisition |
| 2008 | Museum of Arts and Design | Webs, June 2008 | Commission |
| 2011 | Holon Design Museum | Primo Bianco, 2010 | Acquisition |
| 2012 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Wild, March 2009 | Acquisition |
| 2012 | Mint Museum | Joy of Transition, 2012 | Commission |
| 2012 | Boston Museum of Fine Arts | Andrea’s Trust, 2006 | Acquisition |
| 2013 | Houston Museum of Fine Arts | Once, May 2006 | Acquisition |
| 2015 | Corning Museum of Glass | Soma, 2015 | Commission |
| 2015 | Indianapolis Museum of Art | Memory, 2014 | Acquisition |
| 2021 | Museum Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs | Sangha, 2021 | Acquisition |
Education
| 1984 | Fine Arts | Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem |
| 1987 | Fine Arts | Middlesex Polytechnic, London |
Listed Solo Exhibitions
| Year | Gallery |
|---|---|
| 1994 | Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Sculptural Furniture |
| 1997 | Gallery Inter Nos, Milan, Aqua Creations |
| 1998 | Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Strasbourg Antoine Cicero & Ayala Serfaty une dialogue |
| 1998 | Gallery Blanchart, Milan, Ayala Serfaty |
| 2000 | Meta Gallery, Milan, Evolution 19 |
| 2007 | Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Soma: The Beauty of the Moon through Clouds |
| 2008 | Tel Aviv Museum of Art - Soma light installation |
| 2009 | Sculpture Museum Beelden Aan Zee, Den Haag, the Netherlands, Soma Light Installation |
| 2009 | Cristina Grajales Gallery, Design Miami |
| 2011 | Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York, In Vein |
Listed Group Exhibitions
| Year | Gallery |
|---|---|
| 1991 | Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, The Next Generation |
| 1994 | Janco Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, Israel, Object Object: A Dialogue between Art and Design |
| 1995 | Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, Design-Time |
| 1996 | Übersee Museum, Bremen, Germany, Design im Wandel |
| 2002 | Centre Pompidou, Paris, Carrefour de la Création |
| 2002 | The Rockland Center for the Arts, New York, Design show |
| 2003 | Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Design Museums of the World |
| 2003 | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Nature Highly Artificial |
| 2004 | Dot Fifty One Gallery, Miami, Red, White and Blue |
| 2005 | Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Collect |
| 2005 | Triennale, Milan, Promisedesign, New Design from Israel |
| 2006 | Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York Solos: Design from Israel |
| 2006 | VIA Gallery, Paris, Surfaces |
| 2010 | London Design Museum, Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010 |
| 2010 | Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Re-Location |
| 2011 | Design Museum Holon, Israel, New Olds: Design between Tradition and Innovation |
| 2012 | Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel, Cabinets of Wonders |
| 2013 | Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Woven Consciousness |
| 2014 | Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel, Gathering |
| 2015 | Trapholt Museum of Modern Art & Design, Denmark, Fetishism |
| 2017 | Jewish Museum Hohenems, Austria, The Feminine Side of God |
| 2020 | Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany, The Feminine Side of God |
| 2020 | Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Biennale of Crafts & Design |
| 2022 | Carpenters Workshop Gallery NY, The Female Voice in Modern Design, 1950-2000 |
| 2009-22 | Yearly presentations at international Design-Art fairs such as Art Basel, Salon of Art & Design NY, Collective NY, Nomad Monaco, PAD Raris |
Awards & Scholariships
| 1985 | America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship |
| 2006 | Israel Minister of Education and Culture’s annual Design Award |
Bibliography
| Publication | Title |
|---|---|
| Hadashot (October 3, 1993) | Aryeh Berkovitz, “Nighties News” |
| H’ir (December 12, 1995) | Esther Zandberg, “A Woman’s World” |
| I.D. Magazine (January-February, 1998), 77 | Paola Antonelli, “Making Waves” |
| The New York Times (April 1, 1999), 56 | Deborah Sontag, “Where the Fish Watch you Eat” |
| BVD (May 2003): 94-97 | Dov Kazenelson, “Under the Water” |
| Design Museums of the World (2004), 206-211. | Meira Yagid-Haimovici |
| 1000 Lights vol II (New York: Taschen, 2005): 446-9 | Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds. |
| Tel Aviv Museum of Art catalogue for Soma Light Installation, 2008 | Meira Yagid-Haimovici, “It is the Light” |
| Haaretz, Nov. 2008 | Yuval Sa’ar, “Take your Sleeping Bad and spend the Night at the Museum” |
| Ayala Serfaty, In Vein (New York: Cristina Grajales Gallery, 2011) | Sarit Shapira, “Dewdrops of Light: On Ayala Serfaty’s Light Objects” |
| The New York Times (Novemb 2, 2011), D3 | Tim McKeohugh, “Ayala Serfaty’s Light Sculptures on Display” |
| Cultured Magazine (Winter, 2012), 118 | Tali Yaffe, “A Light Touch” |
| Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Arts website | Dafna Kauffmann, “Paludes” |
| in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 15 (1) (April, 2014) | Nava Sevilla Sadeh, “A Subline Vision: Classical Concepts of Sublimation in Classical and Hellenistic Sculptural Goddess Images and their Manifestation in Artworks by Two Contemporary Israeli Artists, Lea Avital and Ayala Serfaty” |
| The Urban Glass Quarterly 140 (Fall, 2015), 50-53 | William Ganis, “Ayala Serfaty’s Shared Intimacies” |
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