Ron Arad
Retrospectives
2010
Ron Arad: “Restless”, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 18 February – 16 May
2009
Ron Arad: “No Discipline”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2 August – 19 October
2008
“Ron Arad: No Discipline” Pompidou Centre, Paris, 20 November – 16 March 09
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Ron Arad: Fishes & Crows, ’85-’94. Friedman Benda, New York
Ron Arad: Flat Mates. Over The Influence – Hong Kong
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 27 June – 25 July
2013
Ron Arad: ‘in Reverse’ Pinacoteca, Turin
Ron Arad: ‘in Reverse’ Design Museum, Holon, Israel 19 June – 19 October
Ron Arad: ‘Last Train’, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice 1 June – 24 November
2012
Ron Arad: 720°, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 15 August – 5 September
2011
Ron Arad: “Curtain Call”, Roundhouse, London, 9 – 29 August
2009
Ron Arad: Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 26 November 2009 – 29 January 2010 “Ron Arad: New Work”, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, 8 April – 9 May Ron Arad, Gallery Mourmans, Maastricht, March “Ron Arad” Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 27 March – 20 April
2007
“Restless”, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, September “Bodyguards”, Metropol, Milan April “The Dogs Barked” de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich November 2006- February 2007
2006
“There is no solution because there is no problem” 508 West 26 Street, New York
14-30 September (with Barry Friedman Gallery)
“Blo-Glo”, Dolce & Gabbana, Metropol, Milan April
“Blo-Jobs”, Gallery Mourmans, Lanaken, Belgium (March)
2005
“Paved with Good Intentions”, a new installation by Ron Arad, Miami Basel
(1 Dec - 10 Dec)
“Designs by Ron Arad”, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (11 Nov 2005 – 7 Jan
“Ron Arad: A Retrospective Exhibition”, Barry Friedman Ltd, New-York (5 May – 24 June)
“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
“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
Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, educated at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and later at the Architectural Association in London, Ron Arad co-founded with Caroline Thorman the design and production studio One Off in 1981 and later, in 1989, Ron Arad Associates architecture and design practice. In 2008 Ron Arad Architects was established alongside Ron Arad Associates.
From 1994 to 1999 he established the Ron Arad Studio, design and production unit in Como, Italy.
Ron Arad was awarded the Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in recognition of his ‘sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry’ in 2002, and was awarded the London Design Medal in 2011.
He was professor of Design at the Hochschule in Vienna from 1994 to 1997, and later Professor of Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London up until 2009, when he was made Professor Emeritus. In 2013 he was elected as a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Art in London.
Ron Arad’s constant experimentation with the possibilities of materials such as steel, aluminium or polyamide and his radical re-conception of the form and structure of furniture has put him at the forefront of contemporary design.
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
2002 Royal Designer for Industry
2001 Oribe Art & Design Award, Gifu, Japan
2001 Gio Ponti International Design Award, Denver
2001 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