Over the past decade, Uri Aran has developed a singular practice centered on an ongoing, philosophical inquiry into how our daily behaviors are used to create and assign meaning. Aran (b. 1977, Jerusalem) lives and works in New York.
This year, Aran's work was the subject of the exhibition Untitled, I love you , at Madre Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy. His work has been exhibited extensively, with recent solo exhibitions including : zero point everything, Sadie Cole HQ, London, UK (2024) , I'm a Restaurant, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2023), Take This Dog For Example , The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, (2023), The Fastest Boy In The World , Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, in 2021, Eggs For Breakfast and Bird In A Blanket , The Club, in Tokyo (2021), House , Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York (2020), Tenants Like These , Sadie Cole HQ, London (2019), Mice , Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2016), Two Things About Suffering , Sadie Coles HQ, London (2016), Sensitivo , Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2014), Puddles , Peep-Hole, Milan (2014), Five Minutes Before , South London Gallery, London (2013), here, here and here , Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2013), among others. Aran additionally participated in 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014), A Needle Walks into a Haystack , Liverpool Biennial 2014, Liverpool, and The Encyclopedic Palace , 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice (2013), as well as numerous group exhibitions, which include: 100 Drawings from Now , The Drawing Center, New York (2020), Platforms: Commissions and Collection , Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019), Take Me (I'm Yours) , Jewish Museum, New York (2016), Question the Wall Itself , Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016), among others.
Uri Aran received an MFA from Columbia University, New York in 2007, and additionally studied at Cooper Union, New York and completed a Bachelor of Design at Bezalel Academy Jerusalem, Jerusalem in 2004. His work is held in the permanent collections of American University, Washington, DC; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; ICA Miami, Miami, FL; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Fundació Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; KADIST, Paris, France and San Francisco, CA; and RISD Museum, Providence, RI; The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, among others.
