Ron Arad

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B. 1951, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives and works in London, UK


AWARDS

2016

Compasso d’Oro

2014

Pillar of the Roundhouse, London

2011

London Design Medal

2010

Honorary Doctorate at Tel Aviv University

2006

The Jerusalem Prize for Arts and Letters, awarded by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel

2005

FX magazine Designer of the Year Award

2004

Architektur & Wohnen Designer of the Year Award

2002

Finalist for the World Technology Award for Design Royal Designer for Industry

2001

Oribe Art & Design Award, Gifu, Japan
Gio Ponti International Design Award, Denver
Barcelona Primavera International Award for Design
Co-winner of Perrier Jouët Selfridges Design Prize, London

1999

Design Plus Award, Frankfurt/Main; Internationaler Designpreis Baden-Württemberg, Design Center Stuttgart

1994

Designer of the Year, Salon du Meuble, Paris


Selected public collections

• Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Montreal
• Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal
• Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
• Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
• Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
• Centre National d’Art Plastique, Paris
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
• Design Museum, London
• Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
• Rohsska Design Museum, Gothenburg
• Powerhouse, Sydney
• Design Museum, Osaka
• Design Museum, Nürnberg
• Neue Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
• Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart


Retrospectives

2010

Ron Arad: “Restless”, Barbican Art Gallery, London

2009

Ron Arad: “No Discipline”, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2008

“Ron Arad: No Discipline” Pompidou Centre, Paris


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Ron Arad: Don’t Ya Tell Henri. Opera Gallery, New York, USA
Ron Arad: Dubito Ergo Cogito. Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ron Arad. Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2021

Ron Arad: Strings, Love Songs and a Red Car. Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2020

Ron Arad 69. Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, UK

2018

Ron Arad: Cuba Working Title. Over The Influence gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Ron Arad: Fishes & Crows, ’85-’94. Friedman Benda, New York, USA
Ron Arad: All and Nothing. Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ron Arad: Flat Mates. Over The Influence gallery, Hong Kong, China.

2017

Beautiful, Useful, Love. Grob Gallery, Geneva

2016

Ron Arad. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow
Ron Arad: ‘Summer Exhibition’ Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Ron Arad: ‘Ron Arad Rocks!, Louisa Guinness Gallery, London

2015

Ron Arad: ‘in Reverse’ Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2014

Paris Motor Show. October 2014
Ron Arad: ‘Last Train’ Ron Arad Studio, London

2013

Ron Arad: ‘in Reverse’ Pinacoteca, Turin
Ron Arad: ‘in Reverse’ Design Museum, Holon, Israel
Ron Arad: ‘Last Train’, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice

2012

Ron Arad: 720°, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2011

Ron Arad: “Curtain Call”, Roundhouse, London

2009

Ron Arad: Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
“Ron Arad: New Work”, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Ron Arad, Gallery Mourmans, Maastricht, March
“Ron Arad” Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007

“Restless”, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, September
“Bodyguards”, Metropol, Milan April
“The Dogs Barked” de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich

2006

“There is no solution because there is no problem” 508 West 26 Street, New York
“Blo-Glo”, Dolce & Gabbana, Metropol, Milan
“Blo-Jobs”, Gallery Mourmans, Lanaken, Belgium

2005

“Paved with Good Intentions”, a new installation by Ron Arad, Miami Basel
“Designs by Ron Arad”, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art “Ron Arad: A Retrospective Exhibition”, Barry Friedman Ltd, New-York
“Ron Arad: New Works & Installation”, featuring Mike Figgis” film for the exhibition
“In Space”, Phillips, de Pury & Co., Chelsea, New-York

2004

“Ron Arad Fatto In Italia” as part of the Venice Biennale 9. International Exhibition of Architecture, “Metamorph” Vincenza, Italy
“Lo-rez-dolores-tabula-rasa”, Galeria Marconi, Milan

2003

“Ron Arad in der Galerie Stefan Vodgt”, Galerie der Moderne, Munich
“Ron Arad Studio Works: 1981-2003”, Louisa Guinness Gallery, London
“Von Mensch zu Mensch”, Sparda Bank, Münster
“Ron Arad”, Galeria Marconi, Milan
“Permetre”s la Llibertat”, Centre d”Art Santa Monica, Barcelona

2002

“Two Floors”, Galeria Marconi, Milan

2001

“Delight in Dedark”, Galeria Marconi, Milan

2000

“Not Made By Hand Not Made in China”, Galeria Marconi, Milan
“Before and After Now”, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1998

R.T.W. Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

1997

Ron Arad new acquisitions, Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts
Ron Arad at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer, Spazio Krizia, Milan

1996

Glasgow Festival of Architecture & Design
Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer, Spazio Krizia, Milan

1995

Ron Arad – Gazi, Athens
The work of Ron Arad, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki
Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer, Triennale, Milan
“Sticks and Stones”, Vitra Design Museum, Touring Exhibition 1990-1995

1994

“L”Esprit du Nomade”, Cartier Fondation, Paris

1993

“Breeding in Captivity” Edward Totah Gallery
“Design in the 20th Century”, Grand Palais, Paris
“One Off and Short Runs”, Centre for Contemporary Arts, (Warsaw, Krakow, Prague)

1991

“A Break with Tradition”, Rohska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden

1990

Ron Arad Recent Works, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1987

“Nouvelles Tendences”, Centre Georges Pompidou
“Documenta 8”, Kassel

1986

“Intellectual Interiors”, Seibo, Tokyo with P. Starck, R. Kawakubo, S. Kuramata

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Please Be Seated. Museum Of Design Atlanta, Atlanta, USA

2023

Colours. Opera Gallery, Madrid, Spain
The Monaco Masters Show 2023, Opera Gallery, Monaco
Food. Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel

2022

Tatintsian Gallery Selected. Tatintsian Gallery, Dubai, UAE
254th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
Overdose. Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel

2021

253rd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
Presentation of the contemporary collection. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2020

The Chair. The Page Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2019

1989 – Culture and Politics. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
251st Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
Chair as an Artwork. Latvian National Museum of Arts, Riga, Latvia

2018

Cure3. Bonhams – London, London, UK

2017

The School. Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
dna10. Friedman Benda, New York, USA

2016

Tudo Joia. GOMIDE & Co, São Paulo, Brazil
Drawing Room. David Nolan Gallery, New York, USA
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Alberto Alessi: The Beauty and the Mastery. MAKK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany

2015

Grand Opening. Opera Gallery, Paris, France

2014

Icons of Art. Opera Gallery, Monaco, Monaco
Sculptural Forms: A Century of Experiment.Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

2013

Out of Hand – Materializing the Postdigital. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Contemporary Emotion.Opera Gallery – London, London, UK

2012

Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum. Design Museum, London, UK
Ron Arad / David Mach. Opera Gallery, Singapore

2011

Made with design and love. Galerie Sandrine Mons, Nice, France
Collector. Tri Postal, Lille, France

2010

Ideen sitzen. 50 Jahre Stuhldesign. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MKG), Hamburg, Germany
Nature in a Kit. MUDAC – Musée de design es d`arts appliques contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland

2009

Esquire’s Singular Suit. Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
Super Contemporary. Design Museum, London, UK
Jangja And Butterfly. Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea

2008

Sothebys – Beyond Limits. Chatsworth House Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK
Design Cities. Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE + RON ARAD. Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
The Hands of Art. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium

2007

20th Century Design Art. The Columns, Seoul, South Korea
Design A-Z. Cramer Mitterrand Art Advisory, Geneva, Switzerland
DAVID LACHAPELLE + RON ARAD. Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2006

Cor Unum – Architekten und Designer entwerfen Keramik. Hetjens-Museum – Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before – Kunst, Design, Architektur im Kopf. Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2005

Architecture & Design: North Gallery Rotation 2. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
BIG BANG. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2003

Ex-press. Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
Intervention. John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK

2000

Presence De L’objet. Passage de Retz, Paris, France

1999

100 Jahre 100 Stühle. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Great Design – 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design MuseumPhoenix Art MuseumPhoenix, USA

1997

Chi ha paura…? (Wie is er bang voor…?) : hedendaagse sieraden. Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch’s, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

1995

New Rose Hotel. Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

1993

(P)review. Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch’s, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

1988

The Modern Chair. Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Metropolis: New British Architecture And The City. Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA), London, UK
The Modern Chair. Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA), London, UK

1987

Vessel. Serpentine Gallery, London, UK