The School of Multidisciplinary Art at Shenkar is extremely pleased to announce the artists who have been selected to take part in the artist-in-residence program in the Elite Building.

Numerous proposals were submitted, and ultimately the panel of judges selected the entries submitted by Netaly Aylon, Asaf Elkalai, and Michal BarOr.

The program is intended to integrate artists in school life and to make Shenkar’s unique resources accessible to them, including workshops and state-of-the-art equipment in a wide variety of fields, access to experts and skilled assistants, and a lively academic environment.

Netaly Aylon (1987) lives and works in Tel Aviv. She sculpts, draws, and does installations. She has a bachelor’s degree in art from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. In recent years she had a solo exhibition at the artists’ workshops in Tel Aviv, and at several different group exhibitions, including at the Bat Yam Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Ashdod Museum of Art, and more.

Netaly was awarded the Gruss Fund scholarship, the Young Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture and Sport, a scholarship from the Pais Council for Support of Solo Exhibitions and a Rabinovitch Foundation scholarship for special projects.

Netaly Aylon (Photography: Jan Aylon)

Asaf Elkalai (1986) grew up in Moshav Kerem Ben Zimra, and today he lives and creates art in Tel Aviv. He is a teacher and installation artist, sculptor, photographer, and video artist.

He has an M.A., cum laude, and a B.A. in photography from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the program for art education studies from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in collaboration with Bezalel.

His works have been displayed and exhibited at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2021), Bar-David Museum of Art and Judaica, on Kibbutz Baram (2021), the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (2020), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2019), and more.

Asaf Elkalai (Photography: Courtesy of Asaf Elkalai)

Michal BarOr (1984) is an investigative artist who works with photographers, institutions, and collectors while posing questions about the foundations through which we build our identity and history as individuals and as a society. BarOr completed her B.A. studies at Bezalel in 2008, and her M.A. studies at the Royal College of Art in 2013. In 2018 she participated in the artist-in-residence program at MeetFactory in Prague, and in 2016 at the Artport residence program. In 2016 she was awarded an artist scholarship to develop an artistic project, and in 2015 she won the Young Artist Award.

Michal BarOr (Photography: Yuval Maoz)