Carmel Ilan, born 1960, lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Carmel Ilan’s work is based on a method of work constructed of numerous folded papers erecting from a wooden plate. Originating in the feminist discourse of the late 20th century, her work responds to traditions of female labor and crafts. Strongly connected to her basic material of paper, she questions the emotional response the material evokes and its contemporary value in an age of digitally archived knowledge.
Her latest development is an interpretation of her original technique, as she currently chooses to exhibit only the photographic representation of her sculptural objects. Replacing material for size value and microscopic vision, she transforms not only the materiality of the works but their physical effect on the viewer.
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Education
2000 – 2004 Basis School of Sculpture
(with excellence)
1985–1986 Parsons School of Designs
1980–1984 Shenkar College, Fashion Design (BFA)
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Carmel Ilan, ZK Gallery, San Francisco
2017 Carmel Ilan, ZK Gallery, San Francisco
2017 What does the latter know, WIZO Haifa Academy, Curator Micha Krishner
2015 Materiality Now, Raw Art, Tel Aviv
2014 Carmel Ilan", Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Paper Field, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea
2011 Carmel Ilan, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 Landscapes, Basis School, Ni’urim
2009 New Works, Rawart Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 No One Nose, Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv
2005 Ni’urim, Basis School
Group Exhibitions
2019 Art Central , Meijler Art Booth, Hong Kong
2018 Scope Art Show, Meijler Art Booth, Miami
2018 Neighbors, Artists House, Tel Aviv
2018 N17, Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 Pop Porn, Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 French Salon, Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 Art Central, Zemack Gallery Booth, Hong Kong
2018 Art Stage Singapore, Zemack Gallery Booth, Singapore
2018 Fresh Paint 10, Zemack Gallery Booth, Tel Aviv
2018 The Map-Reading Between the Lines, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2018 AAF Fair, Zemack Gallery Booth, Palm Beach
2017 Art Miami, Zemack Gallery Booth, Miami
2017 Summer Show, Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017 On the Edge-Israeli Paper, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2017 Fresh Paint 9 , Tel Aviv
2017 Art Central Art Fair, Zemack Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 Colors of Macadam, Macadam Gallery, Belgium
2015 Tel Aviv Tower, Tel Aviv
2015 Base & Building, Basis Art School, Hertzliya
2014 Tabula Rasa, After Gallery, Maalot Tahrsiha
2014 Contemporary Paper Art, Jaffe Museum
2013 Kalut HaHomer, Bet Michal Gallery, Rehovot
2013 Paper Art in Israel #2, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2013 Desert Bloom Paper Biennale, Beit Ha’Amamnim Ba’Negev, Beer Sheva
2012 Turn the page, Beit Ha’Amanut Gallery, Mevaseret Zion
2012 Gallery Collection, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 Fresh Paint IV, Art Fair, Tel Aviv
2011 In Between, The Wilfrid Museum, Ha’Zorea Kibbuts
2010 Heat Wave Catch Gallery Collection, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Neighbors, Korner Park Gallery, Neukolln, Berlin
2010 Fresh Paint III, Art Fair, Tel Aviv
2009 Woods, The Farm Gallery, Holon
2009 Fresh Paint II, Art Fair, Tel Aviv
2008 Cultural Center, Petach Tikva
2007 Performing Arts Center , Tel Aviv
2006 Performing Arts Center , Tel Aviv
2006 Liga Bait BaNamal, Tel Aviv, Curated by Galia Yahav
2005 Basis Gallery, Beit Yannai
2004 Basis Gallery , Beit Yannai