BEYER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Uri Aran
Generously supported by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beyer
An exploration of Aran’s artistic journey, this session will trace his evolution from his early days as a student to his current work, highlighting recurring images and themes throughout his career. We will delve into how Aran uniquely blends drawing, painting, sculpture, video, and sound to create rich, multifaceted, and often challenging new forms of language.
Uri Aran’s practice – spanning painting, drawing, video, sculpture, performance, and installation – is unbound to any medium or hierarchy among materials. Frequently implementing familiar ideas decontextualized from their ascribed roles and settings, he forges intimate worlds where connection and disconnection fundamentally coexist. A storyteller, Aran mines narratives of memory, nostalgia, and human emotions. As these themes collide and diverge, he unveils the embedded poetry within them. 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 in 2004. He participated in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2024) and the Madre Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, IT (2025).