RON ARAD | ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
RON ARAD ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
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. He was Professor of Design Product at the Royal College of Art in London up until 2009. Ron Arad was awarded the 2011 London Design Week Medal for design excellence and was became a Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2013.
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 and architecture.
Alongside his limited edition studio work, Arad designs for many leading international companies including Kartell, Vitra, Moroso, Fiam, Driade, Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina, WMF and Magis among many others.
Ron Arad has designed a number of Public Art pieces, most recently the Vortext in Seoul, Korea, and the Kesher Sculpture at Tel Aviv University. RON ARAD | ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS
2017 / 'The World of Ron Arad', Over the Influence, Honk-Kong / 'The World of Ron Arad', Gary Tatinrsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia / 'Beautiful, Useful, Love', Grob Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2014 / Inaugural Show: Looking Back. The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH / Ron Arad: In Reverse. Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel / Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy / Bangles to Benches: Contemporary Jewelry and Design , High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2013 / 'Last Train', Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italia
2012 / 720 Degrees, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel / Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, Victoria and Albert Museum, Lodon, England
2011 / Ron Arad’s Curtain Call, Roundhouse, London, UK
2010 / European Design Since 1985. Shaping the New Century. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA / Restless, Barbican Centre, London, England
2009 / Ron Arad: No Discipline. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY / European Design Since 1985. Shaping the New Century. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN / Ron Arad: New Work. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England / Drunken Bodyguards. Gallery Mourmans, Lanaken, Belgium
2008 / Guarded Thoughts. Friedman Benda, New York, NY / Ron Arad: No Discipline. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France / Let’s Play. Galerie Arums, Paris, France
2007 / Restless. Friedman Benda, New York, NY / Bodyguard. Dolce & Gabbana, Milan, Italy / Paved with Good Intentions. Galerie Arums, Paris, France / Mod’If. Galerie Arums, Paris, France / Designing Modern Britain. Design Museum, London, England / 'Frieze', Exhibited on the booth of Jablonka Gallery, London, UK
2006 / There is no solution because there is no problem. Friedman Benda, New York, NY / Blo-Glo. Dolce & Gabbana, Milan, Italy / Blo-Jobs. Gallery Mourmans, Lanaken, Belgium / Graff. Galerie Arums, Paris, France / The Dogs Barked. De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 / Barry Friedman Gallery, New York
2001 / 'Delight in Dedark', Galleria Marconi, Milan, Italia
2000 / Before and After Now’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1998 RON ARAD | ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
/ 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
1995 / The work of Ron Arad, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki / Sticks and Stones’, Vitra Design Museum, Touring Exhibition / '38 Tables', Ron Arad Studio, Triennale, Milan Italia / 'The Work of Ron Arad', Gallery Achenbach, Dusseldorf, Germany
1994 / L’Esprit du Nomade’, Cartier Fondation, Paris / Sticks and Stones’, Vitra Design Museum, Touring Exhibition
1993 / Design in the 20th Century’, Grand Palais / Sticks and Stones’, Vitra Design Museum, Touring Exhibition
1992 / Sticks and Stones’, Vitra Design Museum, Touring Exhibition
1991 / Sticks and Stones’, Vitra Design Museum, Touring Exhibition
1990 / Ron Arad Recent Works, Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Sticks and Stones’, Vitra Design Museum, Touring Exhibition
1987 / Nouvelles Tendences’, Centre Georges Pompidou
AWARDS AND COMISSIONS
2002 / Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in recognition of his ‘sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry’ / Fellow of the World Technology Network, 2002
2001 / Oribe Art & Design Award, Japan / Gio Ponti International Design Award, Denver / Barcelona Primavera International Award for Design / Co-winner of Perrier Jouët Selfridges Design Prize, London / Design Plus Award, Frankfurt/Main; Internationaler Designpreis Baden-Württemberg, Design Center Stuttgart, 1999
1994 / Designer of the Year, Salon du Meuble, Paris
LITERATURE
2004 / Metals: Materials for Inspirational Design by Ron Arad (Foreword), Chris Lefteri / Ron Arad Talks to Matthew Collings by Matthew Collings / Ron Arad: Restless Furniture (Blueprint Monographs) by Deyan Sudjic RON ARAD | ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
2001 / Ron Arad by Deyan Sudjic
1999 / Ron Arad by Deyan Sudjic, graphics Angus Hyland, Pentagram, Laurence King Publishers
1998 / Ron Arad by Raymond Guidot, Olivier Boissiere, Dis Voir / The Bookworm (The Design Classics Series) by Ron Arad
1997 / Design Classics Bookworm by Volker Albus, publisher Form Verlag
1993 / Ron Arad Associates: One Off Three by Artemis Architectural Publications
1990 / Ron Arad by Alexander von Vegesack, Vitra
1989 / Restless Furniture by Deyan Sudjic, Publisher: Fourth Estate. Reprinted 199
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