Born 1962, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Aqua Regia 1996, acquisition
1984 Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Listed Solo Exhibitions
1994 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Sculptural Furniture
Listed Group Exhibitions
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 - GatheringLives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Museum Collections
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
Education
1984 Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1987 Fine Arts, Middlesex Polytechnic, London
Listed Solo Exhibitions
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
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
2015 Trapholt Museum of Modern Art & Design, Denmark - Fetishism
2017 Jewish Museum Hohenems, Austria, - The Feminine Side of God
2009-17 Yearly presentations at international Design-Art fairs such as Art Basel, Salon of Art & Design NY, Collective NY, Nomad Monaco
Awards & Scholariships
1985 America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship
2006 Israel Minister of Education and Culture’s annual Design Award
Bibliography
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Esther Zandberg, “A Woman’s World,” H’ir (December 12, 1995).
Paola Antonelli, “Making Waves,” I.D. Magazine (January-February, 1998), 77.
Deborah Sontag, “Where the Fish Watch you Eat,” The New York Times (April 1, 1999), 56.
Dov Kazenelson, “Under the Water,” BVD (May 2003): 94-97.
Meira Yagid-Haimovici, Design Museums of the World (2004), 206-211.
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., 1000 Lights vol II (New York: Taschen, 2005): 446-9.
Meira Yagid-Haimovici, “It is the Light,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art catalogue for Soma Light Installation, 2008
Yuval Sa’ar, “Take your Sleeping Bad and spend the Night at the Museum,” Haaretz, Nov. 2008
Sarit Shapira, “Dewdrops of Light: On Ayala Serfaty’s Light Objects,” Ayala Serfaty, In Vein (New York: Cristina Grajales Gallery, 2011).
Tim McKeohugh, “Ayala Serfaty’s Light Sculptures on Display,” The New York Times (Novemb 2, 2011), D3.
Tali Yaffe, “A Light Touch,” Cultured Magazine (Winter, 2012), 118.
Dafna Kauffmann, “Paludes,” Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Arts website:
http://www.herzliyamuseum.co.il/english/september-2012/cabinet- of-wonder/ayala- serfati
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,” in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 15 (1) (April, 2014).
William Ganis, “Ayala Serfaty’s Shared Intimacies,” The Urban Glass Quarterly 140 (Fall, 2015), 50-53.