Awards, Collections and Patents:
2021 - “V300”, “Parkenlicht light”, “Bin Seat”, “Ballistic Arabesque” acquired by the DMH (Design Museum Holon), Holon, Israel.
2021 - Shortlisted for “the Edmond de Rothschild Award for Product Design 2021”.
2020 - "Mifal HaPais" Culture and Arts committee New Design Projects grant.
2019 - “FIFA-UFC” Punching bag, “Top Fifty” selected work for the Ninja Design Award, Ureshino Design Week, Ureshino, Japan.
2018 - “DIA Design Intelligence Award. Top 100, Design Yiwu– Special Award”, China Academy of the Art, Hangzhou, China.
2018 - “V300: Ceramic Casting Mold System”, to the China Academy of the Arts DIA Awards Design Collection, Hangzhou, China.
2018 - “Solutions 2018” Award for the concept and design of Monkey Business’s King Tong product, Ambiente fair, Frankfurt, Germany.
2017 - Israeli patent no. 216632 “Wearable Utility Instrument Assembly”; co-inventor Yaron Hanover
2016 - works from both the “BC-AD: contemporary prehistoric stone tool design” and the “Do: cut ceramic” series acquired by the Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
2016 - “Do: cut ceramic” work acquired by the MUDAC Design Museum, Lausanne, Switserland.
2016 - Finalist in collaboration with Tsurnamal Turner Landscape Architects in the “Tel-Avivs North Seashore Park and Linear Park” design competition. The Municipality of Tel-Aviv Jaffa, the Israeli Landscape Architects Association, the Israeli United Architects non-profit organization.
2015 - US Patent no. 9,179,726 “Wearable Utility Instrument Assembly”; co-inventor Yaron Hanover.
2015 - "Mifal HaPais" Culture and Arts committee publication grant.
2014 - First prize for the design of an "Urban Bike Stand", Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel Government Tourist Corporation, Holon Design Museum.
2013 - "Mifal HaPais" Culture and Arts committee publication grant.
2012 - "Jungle bag clips" in the Museum of Design in Plastics collection, Arts University College at Bournemouth, UK.
2011 - "Parkenlicht" Masks acquired by Arts Co, at Sothebys' London.
2010 - "Netilat Yadaim" hands-cleansing vessel acquired by the Jewish Museum, New York.
2009 - "+/- Hot Plate" series acquired by the Museum of Art and Design, New York.
2009 - Honorable mention, Henry J. Leir Prize, the Jewish Museum, New York.
2008 - Yehoshua Rabinowitz Foundation for the Arts Grant
2008 - "Bin Seat" from the Mel Byars collection to the Israel Museum's Design Dept.
2005 - Selected work- “RE-Think + RE-Cycle” Macef Design competition, Italy.
2004 - “Habitat” acquired by the Haifa Museum of Art.
2004 - Selected work- “100% Tiles” Design competition, Designboom.
2003 - Israel Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports Design Award.
2003 - Second prize,Alix de Rothschild Craft Awards ; “The Art of Recycling”.
2002 - “Seven Drawers” acquired by the Tel-Aviv Museum of Arts Design Department.
2001 - Israeli patent no.123239: Pocket Knife.
2000 - The Arthur Goldreich Foundation grant.
1996 - Contemporary Design Award, National Furniture '97 Expo/Competition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1996 - Finalist in the Asahikawa International Furniture Design competition, Hokkaido, Japan.
1992 - Sharett Fund, America-Israel Foundation prize.
1992 - Meisler Award for Outstanding Product Design.
1989, 1990, 1992 Industrial Design Department Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
1988 - National Tae Kwon Do champion, Israel.
Exhibitions:
2023 - “Walking the Fields of Dreams” together with artists Aron Demetz and Hans Lemmen, at the VISAVU Gallery, Woudrichem UNESCO World Heritage site, the Netherlands.
2023 - “Looking at Ourselves” in collaboration with Prof. Yonatan Loewenstein’s lab at HUJI’s Center for Brain Sciences and Prof. Leore Grosman’s lab at HUJI’s Institute of Archaeology, The Martine De Souza-Dassault Brain Art Gallery, the Edmond & Lilly Safra Center for Brain Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2023 - “Born of nature”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan.
2023 - “Jaffa 110”, Jaffa municipality, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2023 - “Plates for Democracy”, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2023 - “What is the Measure of Man”, the Tel-Aviv Biennale of Crafts and Design 2023, MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv.
2023 - “Home Away from Home Away from Home; A Tribute to Workers’ Restaurants”, Asif, Culinary Institute of Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2022 - “The Worlds Backyard: The Israeli Version", Artists House Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2022 - “Go for Broke”, The 2022 Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel.
2022 - “Define Design”, The Shenkar Jacob and Tamar Rosen Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2021 - “A Stone’s Throw Away", part of the Menofim art event. Azrieli Gallery, Haddasah
Academic Collage, Jerusalem.
2021 - “3D in the Future”. D-house; Urban Laboratory, part of the Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy.
2021 - “The Voice of Things”. West Bund Museum (in collaboration with the Pompidou Center), Shanghai, China.
2021 - “PUNCH. GENERATE. FREAK” installation, with David Oppenheim, Sarit Youdelevich, and Doron Altaratz. Part of the “Runaway Circus” themed Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem.
2021 - “Nature Culture Begins”. ARCADE Design a la Campagne, Chateau de Ste Colombe en Auxois, France.
2021 - “Ra’ashanim”. Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel.
2021 - “Black Box: From the Museum Collection”. DMH – Design Museum Holon, Israel.
2021 - “Time Capsule: Selected Designers from the last Venice Design Biennial”. SPARC* Contemporary Art Space (Venice, Italy), online via the artsy.com platform
2020 - “The Israeli Uncanny”. Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel.
2020 - “XYZT: Material Investigations”. Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2020 - "Creative (un)Makings: Disruptions in Art/Archaeology”. The International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Santo Tirso, Portugal.
2020 - “Craft and Design Bianalle 2020". Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2020 - "Extraordinaire". MUDAC Design Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2020 - "FAB Lab" display. The Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
2019 - “Beast of the Anthropocene”. Showcased for the 3D Print Forum, Tokyo Garden Terrace, Kioicho tower, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 - “Garden of Eden” exhibition. Part of DESIGNART TOKYO at the Spiral, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 - “The Shape of a Smile: Monkey Business Product Design Process”. Design Museum Holon, Israel.
2019 - “Prehistory, a Modern Enigma”. George Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
2019 - “Medicalization”. Azrieli Gallery, Hadassah Academic Collage, Jerusalem, Israel.
2019 - “Ninja Design Awards” exhibition. Part of the Ureshino Design Week, Ureshino, Japan.
2018 - “Zoom in Hummus”. Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2018 - “Terra Cotta Rave”. Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2018 - “IDEA: the Design Supermarket”. Part of the Dutch Design Week at TAC, Vonderweg 1, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
2018 - “Uncanny”, Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel.
2018 - “IDEA: the Design Supermarket”. Round Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2018 - “DESIGN. VE - Design After Darwin. Adapted for Adaptability”. Palazzo Morosini Gatterburg, Venice, Italy.
2018 - “DIA Design Intelligence Award”. China Academy of the Art, Hangzhou, China.
2018 - “Solutions 2018” Innovative and trend setting products exhibit at the Ambiente fair, Frankfurt, Germany.
2018 - “Israel: Seventy Years of Craft and Design”. Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA, USA.
2018 - “IDEA: the Design Supermarket”. SUPERSTUDIO, during the Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
2017 - “In between; twenty years of local design”, Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2017 - “Purmundus”, Formnext, Messe, Frankfurt, Germany.
2017 - “FUTURES”, the Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea.
2017 - “Tresor: Contemporary Craft”, Messe, Basel, Switzerland.
2017 - “the Autarkic Studio”, the Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel.
2017 - “Islands”, Jerusalem Design Week, Bezeq Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
2017 - “State of Design”, Vollgutlager Alte Kindl Brauerei, Berlin, Germany.
2017 - “Anthropocene”, Subalterno1 Gallery, Milan, Italy.
2017 - “Secrets”, Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel
2017 - “Violent Object”, Vitrine Gallery, HIT Holon Institute of Technology, Israel.
2017 - “Printing the World”, Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
2017 - “Alien Matter” exhibition part of the Transmeiale Fair, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
2016 - "Making a difference / a difference in making", the Red Dot Museum, Essen, Germany.
2016 - “TECHNO.LOGICAL VESSELS; Ceramics Design from Israel”, Sant Pau Recinit Modernista, Barcelona, Spain.
2016 - “Connector; a tribute to Ami Drach”, Vitrine Gallery, HIT Holon Institute of Technology, Israel.
2016 - “Matter of Fact; Local Ceramic Production Today”, the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2016 - “Designer, Collector”, Fresh Paint 8, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2016 - “Chair Games”, the NB Haifa School of Design (WIZO) gallery, Haifa, Israel.
2016 - “Smart Materials, Stupid Materials”, Vitrine Gallery, HIT Holon Institute of Technology, Israel.
2015 - "Award Winning Exhibition", ’The Store’ Gallery Theater, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2015 - "Futur Archaique", MUDAC Design Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2015 - "Fifty Years of Youth Wing Children", the Israel Museum Jerusalem, Israel.
2015 - “Li.Tzor” the Geological Museum, Ramat Hasharon, Israel.
2015 - "De-Tech", Hansen House, Center for Design, Media And Technology, Jerusalem, Israel.
2015 - "Metropolis; the urban experience", Art Center, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel.
2015 - "Broken / Whole", Neve Schechter, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2015 - "Workplace for the New World", Bureau Europa, institute for architecture and design, Maastricht, Holland.
2015 - "Bio-Design; Hybrid Fabrications", HIT Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel.
2015 - "Making a difference / a difference in making", BOZAR Center of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
2015 - "Futur Archaique", centre d'innovation et de design, Grand Hornu Museum, Hornu, Belgium.
2014 -"Tools: Extending our reach", the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, NY, USA.
2014 - "Any Tokyo", Zojoji Temple, Tokyo, Japan.
2014 - "Special Edition" Fresh Paint exhibition, Mier Tower, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2013 -"Naghap" Hanukah Top exhibit, Studio Alef Alef Alef, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2013 - “Imprinting on clay: cultural memory in contemporary ceramic art", The Seventh Biennale for Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2013 -"Games of Light and Shade", the Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
2013 - "Slow Motion", Fresh Paint 6 / Fresh Design 1, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2013 - "The Mangalistim", the Havah Gallery, Holon, Israel.
2012 - "Growth Curve; designer retrospectives", Jerusalem's historic train station, Israel.
2012 - "Beastly Designs", the Museum of Design in Plastics, Arts University College at Bournemouth, UK.
2012 - "Stanley Saitowitz: Judaica", Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA.
2012 - "Slow Design" exhibition- part of the Budapest Design Week, Erzsebet ter 13, Budapest, Hungary.
2012 - "Giving light for Maor", Art Station Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2012 - "Do" with Irit Abba, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2012 - "Complastica", the Hulon Design Museum, Hulon, Israel.
2011 - "PERISCOPTIVA", Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Park, Korea.
2011 - "Dream Objects", Sotheby's, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2011 - Field installation with David Amar, part of the "Waste not, want it" Arts Co. project for Bloomberg, Finsbury square, London, England.
2011 - "Granny Tales", Paradigma Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2011 - "PROMISEDESIGN: New Design from Israel", PIERRE BERGE & ASSOCIES, Place du Grand Sablon, Brussels, Belgium.
2011 - "PROMISEDESIGN: New Design from Israel", Espace d'art Le Moulin, Valette-du-Var, France.
2011 - "PROMISEDESIGN: New Design from Israel", Passage de Retz, Paris, France.
2011 - "Periscopective", the Artist House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2011 - "BEZALEL Legacy Innovation Inspiration", Sotheby's, London, England.
2011 - "PROMISEDESIGN: New Design from Israel", Circuito Ventura Lambrate, Milan, Italy.
2011 - “Ceramic Design: Techno.Logical Implements", The sixth Israeli Ceramics Biennale, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
2010 - "A chair is a chair is a chair", Paradigma Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2010 - "Eat Drink Art Design", Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA.
2010 - "Houses on the Boulevard", Rothschield st. out door exhibit, Tel- Aviv, Israel.
2010 - "Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life", the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA.
2010 - "Da Naydi", Paradigma Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2010 - "From Mediterranean Traditional to Israeli Contemporary Design", the Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada.
2009 - CASA 09', Furniture Design Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2009 - "NON OBJECT IVE", Lodz Design Festival, Lodz, Poland.
2009 - "New Design Generation", Houjie, China.
2009 - "Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life", the Jewish Museum, New York, USA.
2009 - "Object Factory; the art of industrial ceramics", Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA.
2009 - Israeli design display, Sothebey's Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2009 - "LG Five"; Teddy Bear installation, Jaffa port, Israel.
2009 - "Survival" ,the "Havva" Gallery, Holon, Israel.
2008 - "Neo", Israel '09 Furniture fair, Ganey HaTa'arooha, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2008 - "NOWHERE/NOW/HERE", LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacie'n Industrial, Gijon, Spain.
2008 - "ASA 25; Design from Israel", Espace Villeneuve-Bargemon and Galerie du Center Design Marseille, Marseille, France.
2008 - "Parkenlicht", Artists House Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2008 - "Object Factory; the art of industrial ceramics", Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada.
2007 - "Neo", Israel '08 Furniture fair, Ganey HaTa'arooha, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2007 - "It's a Small World After All",The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2007 - "Water in Art and Life", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
2007 - "Dream Makers", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem ,Israel.
2006 - "REORIENTED DESIGN ISRAEL" Exhibition. The Saint Etienne Biannle, France.
2006 - "Models" Exhibition. Industrial Design Departmental gallery, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
2006 - "The Gallery's Choice", High Touch a place for contemporary art, Hertzelia, Israel.
2006 - "Minor" Exhibition. Artists House Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2006 - "Periscope for Israeli Design", SOHO Design Center, Tel-Aviv.
2006 - "Solos: New Design from Israel", Smithsonian: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, USA.
2005 - "Dialog: Artists in Roni Naims metal shop", Habarbanel 3, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2005 - "SAFE: Design Takes On Risk", Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
2005 - "Installation Situation", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel.
2005 - PROMISDESIGN, Copenhagen International Furniture Fair , Denmark.
2005 - PROMISDESIGN, DESIGNMAI, Berlin, Germany.
2005 - PROMISDESIGN, Trianalle, Milan, Italy.
2005 - “Domains”, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi, India.
2005 - “Ceramics”, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel.
2005 - “Domains”, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2005 - Macef Design awards exhibit, Milan, Italy.
2004 - Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Israel ‘05 Furniture Design Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2004 - “The Third Biennale for Israeli Ceramics”, Eretz Israel Museum, Tet-Aviv, Israel.
2004 - “100% Tiles” Designboom competition, “100% Design”, London, England.
2004 - “Prizes in Art and Design”, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Haifa Museum of Art , Israel.
2004 - “FABRICaction” at the Arad Museum, Israel.
2003 - “Combina Complet” , Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2003 - "What next?" at SOHO Design City, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2003 - “Young Israeli Art: The Jacques and Eugenie O’Hana Collection”, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
2003 - "Hard Softness", the "Havva" Gallery, Holon, Israel.
2003 - “Domains”, The Museum of Modern Art, Taipai, Taiwan.
2003 - “Domains”, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea.
2003 - “FABRICaction” at the Kfar-Saba Museum, Israel.
2003 - “The Magic of Plastic” installation, Plasto-Ispak Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2003 - “Safe/Unsafe” at the Bezalel Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2003 - “Public Space” at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
2003 - “About Design” at the Bezalel Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2003 - “Domains”, New International Expo Center, Shanghai, China.
2003 - “Domains”, Jintai Museum, Beijing, China.
2003 - “The Art of Recycling” at the Henkin Design Gallery, Holon, Israel.
2003 - “FABRICaction” at the Ashdod Museum, Israel.
2003 - “Industrious Designers” Design from Israel at The Stockholm Furniture Fair, Sweden.
2003 - “Industrious Designers” Design from Israel at the Museum of Decorative Arts, Riga, Latvia.
2003 - “Industrious Designers” Design from Israel at the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic.
2002 - “Couples” at the David Yalin Academy Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
2002 - “A Sea of Chairs” at the Design Center, Bnei-Brak, Israel.
2002 - Israel 2003 Furniture Design Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2002 - “Domains”, International Design Center, Nagoya, Japan.
2002 - “Domains”, Designers Block, Tokyo, Japan.
2002 - “Industrious Designers” Design from Israel at ‘Abitare il Tempo’, Verona, Italy.
2002 - “Industrious Designers” Design from Israel at Tendence 2002, Frankfurt, Germany.
2002 - “…and again we go…” Reuse in art and design. Mierov House Art Center, Holon, Israel.
2002 - “Design on Design”, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
2002 - "Israeli Habitat", Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel.
2001 - “Industrious Designers” Design from Israel at ‘Abitare il Tempo’, Verona, Italy.
2001 - “Unaware That That’s How It Is ” Re-Use In Design. Artists’ House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2001 - “Improvisation” Exhibition, Askola Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2001 - "Bin Seats" Exhibition. Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2001 - “The CreoScitex Penguin Parade”, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2001 - "Chair Installation", Hazira Performance Art, Jerusalem, Israel.
2000 - Israel 2001 Furniture Design Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel. A Decade of Design Awards- a retrospective.
2000 - "Ta’arooha-Temporary Name: Middle Eastern Restaurant" Installation. Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel.
2000 - "Ta’arooha-Temporary Name: Middle Eastern Restaurant" Installation. Ami Steinitz contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2000 - "2000 Objects for a New Millennium" Exhibition. Gallery 91, New York, NY, USA.
1999 - "Plans for/of a Drawer" Exhibition. Askola Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1998 - Faculty show. Askola Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1998 - Israel ‘99 Furniture Design Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1998 - "Out of the Box" Young Designers for Packaging. Openspace Piano Ammezzato, Milan, Italy.
1998 - "50 Products X 50 Years" Exhibition. Reading "A" power plant. Vital - the Tel Aviv Center for Design Studies, Israel.
1997 - "Lightbulb" Exhibition. Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1997 - "Artist Card" Exhibition. Artists’ House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1997 - "Void" Exhibition. Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1997 - "Cellular Phone" exhibition. Askola Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1996 - Ozone Plaza, Shinjuku Park Tower, Tokyo, Japan.
1996 - Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1996 - National Furniture '97 Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1996 - Asahikawa Furniture Design Fair, Hokkaido, Japan.
1993 - Shilo 4 Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
1992 - Sharett Fund exhibition, Ein Hod, Israel.
1989-1992 – Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem’s Industrial Design Department summer exhibition.
