Statement / Bio
Shay Arick is an Israeli visual artist based in New York. In his cross-disciplinary practice, he issues of violence, social taboos, political conflicts, and human behaviors. Shay deconstructs iconic cultural imagery as a form of critique and analysis. Arick employs art history and historical archives as a founding material to expose the absurdity of societal constructs provoking dialogue around body and gender politics, desire, and power dynamics. As an example, this photograph Modern Masks, is part of a series of self – portraits where the artist wears a sculpture (made out of paper) on his head that recalls art historical works.
2018 RU Alum Shay Arick is an Israeli visual artist based in Brooklyn. Arick is a recipient of Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Arts Award and the Eileen Cooper Award For Creativity, the America-Israel Award For Excellence in Sculpture and is a HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts Artist Grant recipient, among others. He has shown and had residencies in venues such as at the International Sculpture Center, MASS MoCA, Kadist Art Foundation, Wassaic Project, The Watermill Center Summer Residency, Haifa Museum Of Art (Haifa),Y Gallery (New York), Watermill Center (New York), San Francisco International Arts Festival, Southern Exposure (San Francisco), SOMarts (San Francisco), Subterranean Arthouse (Berkeley), ZiZspace (Tel Aviv), Binyamin Gallery (Tel Aviv), Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), OnSpace (Beijing), Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing).
Artist website: www.shayarick.com