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Nivi Alroy, The Promising Artist Award 2010, Israel.
Posted: April 28th, 2011 ˑ Filled under: Art, Exhibition Tel Aviv, Israel Art and design ˑ No Comments

Award Committee 2011:

Igal Ahouvi | Art Collector – Chairman of the Award Committee
Jessica Morgan | The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate Modern, London
Edna Moshenson | Independent Curator, Tel Aviv
Igael Tumarkin | Artist, Israel
Shay Rosen | Head of the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection
Sarit Shapira | Curator of the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection

Nivi is an Israeli artist, currently based in New York.

She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts.

“My work deals with the tension between intimacy of private domains, weather bodies, living environments or communities and the intrusive forces

threatening them. I explore the changing relationship between outer and inner spaces : the interior parts of structures or even the paper itself erupt, exposing an intimate moment”.

Food chain and Fresh Paint 2011.

Each year, the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection presents a Prize of 20,000 NIS to the Most Promising Artist at Fresh Paint Art Fair. The winner is selected from the independent artists participating in the fair for his or her overall artistic achievements so far, as well as for showing the most promise and potential for the future. The winner gets a solo show at the fair, the following year. The announcement of the winner is made at the opening of the art fair.

Fresh Paint 3′s Most Promising Artist award went to Nivi Alroy, who will present a solo exhibition “Food Chain” in Fresh Paint 4. Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman

Nivi Alroy – born in 1978, lives and works in Tel Aviv. B.A. graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and M.A. graduate of the School of Visual Arts, New York.



“My work process begins in the printmaking workshop, where I capture fragments of mundane life and their fragile moments.

Through the making of mono-prints I create abstract renderings of construction materials and sites, trying to break apart the hierarchies of residential environments. I then build sculptural objects made of materials from the construction sites of demolished houses.

Later, I imbed the mono-prints into the structural objects to create environments that are simultaneously exposed to and hidden from the viewer.”


“Nivi Alroy, an interdisciplinary artist, is once more a star. Last year, she was awarded the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection’s Most Promising Artist Award, a prize that included a solo exhibition at this year’s event. And here it is: Food Chain, another distinctive presentation.

Unlike most younger-generation artists, Alroy has already decided on the direction she wants to go. In the last few years in New York and Paris she has being showing installations whose themes are derived from microbiology. In this instance, her main thrust is not only the vulnerability of private lives and spaces in relation to outside forces or situations that come to destroy them, but also the way that life nevertheless goes on, subject to different laws.”



ANGELA LEVINE.



Apoptosis, Remeeded Wood, cement, mono print, chip-board, 2007.

HONORS AND PRIZES

A.I.R GALLERY The center for advocating women in the visual arts, Chelsea, New York
2008-2009
The recipient of the 2008-2009 residency award

GUEST ARTIST AND LECTURER : The U.N. conference center.
The African American women convention.
Artist talk and presentation of a recent body of work
in relation to the socio-political state in the Middle
East convention, 2007-2008

THE FRIDA E. ISICOFF AWARD 2007 : The winner of an award given every two years for
an outstanding achievement in the thesis project at
the School of Visual Arts.

THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS 2006,2007 : The alumni award

AICF GRANT 2005-2007 : The American-Israel cultural foundation award for young artists
Awarded the America-Israel cultural foundation Scholarship for an MFA degree

THE SHARET FOUNDATION GRANT 2003 : America-Israel Grant for young artists
Awarded the highly competitive America-Israel
Cultural Foundation Grant for young artists

BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ART AND DESIGN, JERUSALEM 2001-2003 : “Bezalel” high distinction award.