Shai Azoulay Explained

Shai Azoulay
Birth Date:1971
Birth Place:Kiryat Shmona, Israel
Spouse:Daniella
Website:www.sazoulay.com

Shai Azoulay (Hebrew:) (born in 1971) is an Israeli painter. Azoulay lives and works in Jerusalem and is a faculty member of the Fine Art Department of The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

Biography

Azoulay was born in 1971 in Kiryat Shmona. His family moved to Arad when he was a child. After his army service, he traveled to the Far East, where he began to paint. He began his art studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in the mid-1990s and graduated in 2000 with a BFA degree and in 2007 with an MFA degree.[1]

Azoulay has exhibited both in Israel and worldwide including Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011),[2] ARATANIURANO Gallery, Tokyo (2013), Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2018),[3] The Israel Museum Jerusalem (2019)[4] as well as group exhibitions in New York, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome. His works are included in public and private collections including The Israel Museum, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Ashdod Museum of Art, Bank Hapoalim, Israel Discount Bank, and Bank Leumi.[5] [6]

Azoulay is a faculty member of the Fine Art Department of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (“Oman" Haredi Extension)[7] Among the awards that he has received are Legacy Heritage Fund Prize for a Young Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2007), The Osnat Mozes Prize for Painting for a Young Artist, The Artists House, Jerusalem (2007), Creative Encouragement Award, Ministry of Culture and Sport (2011), Ministry of Culture Award (2018) and The Israeli Lottery 'Landau Prize' for arts and science (2020)[8]

Azoulay lives and works in Jerusalem. He is married to Daniella Azoualy, a ceramic artist. Together they have six children. His brother is the actor Golan Azoulay.[9]

Work

In their recommendation to reward Azoulay with the prize for a young artist, the members of the Osnat Mozes committee commented that they "...were deeply impressed by Azoulay’s command of painterly skills, his knowledge of the history of painting, and of the contemporary critical discourse." They further noted: "In his paintings, Shai Azoulay moves along a narrow thread stretched between historical narrative and intimate-human stories. With a seemingly gentle and ironic touch he deconstructs modernist and national mythologies, while reconstructing from them refreshing pictures lacking pretension which reveal as if for the first time the possibility of creating a dynamic world.[10]

In her essay for Azoulay's exhibition "Closer to the Sun", Michal Shachani Yacobi states "The relationship between the painting and Hasidism, or between painting and tradition and faith, occupies Azoulay in his works. He uses them to reexamine concepts, rabbinical homilies, and stories borrowed from the worlds of Torah and Jewish mysticism."[11]

Azoulay's has a spanish mother and a moroccan father. When Azoulay was 8 years old, the family moved from Kiryat Shmona to Arad, located in the Negev desert. He later depicted these landscapes in his works. The desert is "so active, but under the surface," he says; it is "working from the quiet."[12]

Upon completion of his requisite three-year army service, Azoulay traveled across Asia, being inspired to become an artist while in Thailand.[12] He went on to attend Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.[12] Around the time of his graduation with an MFA in 2007, he began to become more religiously observant.[12] Being religiously observant is unusual in the Israeli art scene, of which he is a leading figure.[12]

Azoulay is a follower of the 19th century Jewish mystic, teacher, and storyteller, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov,[12] a key influencer in the development of Breslov Hasidic Judaism.[12] [13]

Exhibitions

Select solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Awards and prizes

Collections

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Yahas . Tal . Superpartners . 2011 . Tel Aviv Museum of Art . 96.
  2. Web site: Superpartners . Tel Aviv Museum.
  3. Web site: A Dwelling Down Below . Herzliya Museum.
  4. Web site: Sugar Cube . The Israel Museum.
  5. Web site: Kers Gallery . Gallery viewer . 17 November 2020.
  6. Web site: Shai Azoulay . School of the Art Institute of Chicago . 17 November 2020.
  7. Web site: Bezalel Faculty. Oman . 5 November 2020.
  8. Web site: The Israel Museum. Information Center for Israeli Art . 5 November 2020.
  9. Web site: Dancing Between Worlds . Qarov . 18 November 2020 . he.
  10. Web site: Decision of the Prize Jury . Jerusalem Artists' House . 5 November 2020.
  11. Book: Closer to the Sun, Shai Azoulay . The Gallery for Israeli Art at the Tivon Memorial Center . 33–34.
  12. Storer . Abraham . A Head like Two Heads: "The Paintings of Shai Azoulay" . The Image Journal . 98 .
  13. Book: Nachman . Rabbi. Likutey Moharan II, 24 (translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum) . 8 November 2020.
  14. Web site: Outpost . Jerusalem Artists House . 17 November 2020.
  15. Web site: Azoulay Shai . The Jerusalem Artists House.
  16. Web site: Shai Azoulay, Exhibitions . Israel Museum, Information Center for Israeli Art . 8 November 2020.
  17. Web site: Guided Imagery . Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art . 17 November 2020.
  18. Web site: Dos . Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art . 17 November 2020.
  19. Web site: Shortcuts . Meislin Projects . 17 November 2020.
  20. Web site: A Dwelling Down Below . Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.
  21. Web site: Kitsur Shulchan Aruch . Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art . 17 November 2020.
  22. Web site: Shai Azoulay, Exhibitions . Israel Museum, Information Center for Israeli Art.
  23. Web site: Shai Azoulay . Jerusalem Artists House . 17 November 2020.
  24. Web site: Past exhibitions . Tel Aviv Museum of Art . 17 November 2020.
  25. Web site: With the ring . Beit Hatfutsot.
  26. Web site: Shai Azoulay . Mutual Art . 17 November 2020.
  27. Web site: Comfort scapes . Art Cube Artists' Studios . 17 November 2020.
  28. Web site: Mazal u'bracha . Beit Hatfutsot . 17 November 2020.
  29. Web site: New in the Collection . The Israel Museum, Jerusalem . 2 December 2018 . 17 November 2020.
  30. Web site: The Artists' Choice . Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art.
  31. Book: Superpartners . 2011 . Tel Aviv Museum of Art . 978-965-539-036-0 . 60.
  32. Web site: Shai Azoulay . Israel Museum, Information Center for Israeli Art . 8 November 2020 .
  33. News: מרב . 'יודילוביץ . משרד התרבות: הוכרזו הזוכים בפרס עידוד היצירה . Ynet . 15 November 2011 . 18 November 2020 . he.
  34. News: Ron . Omri . Winners announced for 2020 Landau awards despite coronavirus pandemic . The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com . 18 November 2020.
  35. Web site: רשימת זוכים . Yotsrim . 18 November 2020 . he.
  36. Web site: Sugar Cube . The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 17 February 2021 .
  37. Web site: Shai Azoulay . Taguchi Art Collection . 20 January 2017 . 17 November 2020.
  38. Web site: Permanent collection . Salsali Private Museum . 17 November 2020.
  39. Book: Superpartners . 2011 . Tel Aviv Museum of Art . 978-965-539-036-0 . 72.
  40. Web site: Shai Azoulay . Dubi Shiff Art Collection . 17 November 2020.
  41. Book: Superpartners . 2011 . Tel Aviv Museum of Art . 978-965-539-036-0 . 30, 40, 49–50, 62, 74, 84.
  42. Book: Superpartners . 2011 . Tel Aviv Museum of Art . 978-965-539-036-0 . 54.
  43. Book: Superpartners . 2011 . Tel Aviv Museum of Art . 978-965-539-036-0 . 69.
  44. Web site: Art Collection . Israel Discount Bank . 17 November 2020.
  45. Book: Superpartners . 2011 . Tel Aviv Museum of Art . 978-965-539-036-0 . 66.

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