About me
My art expresses the issues that I think and deeply care about; I try to awaken and provoke the viewer through active and loud pieces of art. I integrate realist and imaginary worlds using a combination of media and techniques: glass, metal, concrete and textile. The colors, textures and shapes stand in stark contrast to one other while also complementing each other.
Professional Experience
2014 Owner of the Olya’s Hot Glass Studio in Emek Ha’ella, moshav Aviezer.
2012 – today Lecturer in Ceramic and Glass department in Bezalel Art Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
2007 – 2013 TA and Instructor in Hot shop, Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem.
Education
2014 – 2016 M.Des, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem, Industrial Design.
2005 – 2009 B.F.A, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem, Israel, Ceramic and Glass Department.
1999 – 2003 B.Sc, Negev Academy College of Engineering, Israel.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Comme il faut, Tel Aviv.
2018 The Mizgaga Museum, “Michaela”, Israel.
Group Exhibitions
2019 Royal Beach Hotel, Tel Aviv, 2018 Freshpaint, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2015 Israeli Glass, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2014 Secret Art 7, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013 121 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2012 Pokorna Gallery, Prague, Czech republic, 2012 Sotheby’s Chicago, USA, 2012 P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2012 MICA Maryland Institute College of Art, USA, 2012 Hava Gallery, Holon, Israel, 2012 Secret Art 6, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2011 Israeli Glass, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2011 N&N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2011 Jerusalem Mormon University, 2011 Art in Zameret, Bank Leumi, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2011 Secret Art 5, Tel Aviv, 2010 UdK Berlin, 2009 Orangerie Museum, Tuileries gardens, Paris, 2009 Art Center Holon, Israel, 2008 Museum of Italian Jewish Art, 2008 Prime Minister House in Israel, 2007-8 Yaniv Glass Gallery.
Awards & Honors
2017 Scholarship for study in Corning Museum of Glass , US, bestowed by AIDA, 2015 Award Yuri Stern Minister of Absorption, 2014 Scholarship for Art Residency in Urban Glass Studio, US, Brooklyn, bestowed by AIDA, 2014 Scholarship for study in Corning Museum of Glass , US, bestowed by AIDA, 2012 Scholarship for Art Residency in Glass School Zelezny Brod, Czech Republic, bestowed by Ruthi Wertheimer, 2011 Scholarship for study in Pilchuck Glass School, US, bestowed by AIDA, 2009 Prize Blumenthal of Excellence in Graduates Project in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, 2008 Scholarship for study in Pilchuck Glass School, US, bestowed by Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, 2008 Scholarship for William Gudenrath course in Israel, bestowed by AIDA.