Timothy Taylor Gallery

Ron Arad

(British, b. 1951)

Ron Arad

Blo-Void 5, 2005

Ron Arad

Bodyguard, 2008

Ron Arad

Bodyguard (solid), 2008

Ron Arad

Gomli, 2008

Ron Arad

Oh, the farmer & the cowman should be friends, 2009

Biography

Timeline

1951: Born in Tel Aviv
1971 - 1973: Jerusalem Academy of Art
1974 - 1979: Architectural Association - School of Architecture, studies under Peter Cook and B. Tschumi
1981: Established One Off Ltd. with Caroline Thorman in Covent Garden, London
1989: Founded Ron Arad Associates, Architecture and Design practice with Caroline Thorman in Chalk Farm, London
1991: Guest Editor of 1994 International Design Yearbook and Designer of the Year
1994 - 1997: Professor of Product Design at the Hochschule in Vienna
1997: Professor of Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art in London
: Designer of the Year, Salon du Meuble, Paris, 1994
: Design Plus Award, Frankfurt/Main; Internationaler Designpreis Baden-Württemberg, Design Center Stuttgart, 1999
: Co-winner of Perrier Jouët Selfridges Design Prize, London, 2001
: Barcelona Primavera International Award for Design, 2001
: AWARDS
: Oribe Art & Design Award, Japan, 2001
: Finalist for the 2002 World Technology Award for Design
: Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in recognition of his ‘sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry’, 2002
: His work has been widely featured in many design/architectural books and magazines worldwide. He is currently Professor of Design Product at RCA
: Gio Ponti International Design Award, Denver, 2001
: Fellow of the World Technology Network, 2002

Exhibitions

2013: Ron Arad: Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011 - 2012: 720 Degrees, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
: Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 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
: Retrospective to be held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: U.F.O.: Grenzgänge zwischen Kunst und Design, NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Germany
: Retrospective. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Drunken Bodyguards. Gallery Mourmans, Lanaken, Belgium
: Ron Arad: New Work. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
: European Design Since 1985. Shaping the New Century. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
2009: Ron Arad: No Discipline retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2008: Guarded Thoughts. Friedman Benda, New York (solo)
: Ron Arad, Centre Pompidou, Paris (solo)
: Let’s Play, Galerie Arums, P (solo)
: Ron Arad: No Discipline retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Designing Modern Britain. Design Museum, London, England
: Paved with Good Intentions (2005), arums galerie, Paris (solo)
2007: Mod'If. Galerie Arums, Paris, France
: Restless, Friedman Benda, New York, NY (solo)
: Bodyguards, Dolce & Gabbana, Milan, Italy (solo)
2006: Exhibits in Designing Modern Britain at the Design Museum, London.
: THERE IS NO SOLUTION because there is no problem, Installation at 508 West 26th Street, NY. Barry Friedman Ltd., NY: September 14-30 (solo)
: Blo-Glo, Dolce & Gabbana, Milan, Italy (solo)
: Blo-Jobs, Gallery Mourmans, Lanaken, Belgium (solo)
: The Dogs Barked. De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
: Graff. Galerie Arums, Paris, France
: Volumes and Voids, Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana (solo)
2005: Paved with Good Intentions. Installation at the Collins Building, Barry Friedman Ltd., Miami, FL
: Ron Arad: A Retrospective Exhibition 1981-2004. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
: Ron Arad: A Retrospective Exhibition 1981-2004, Barry Friedman Ltd., NY (solo)
: Lo-rez-dolores-tabula-rasa, with Mike Figgis. Phillips de Pury & Company (solo)
: New Works & Installations in Corian, Installation at Phillips, de Pury & Company, NY. Barry Friedman Ltd., NY: May 2 – June 10 (solo)
: Lo-rez-dolores-tabula-rassa. Galeria Marconi, Milan, Italy
: Metamorph. Vincenza, Italy
2004: Begins designing Magis’ headquarters in Treviso, Italy and the Holon Design Museum in Holon, Israel. Participates in British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
2003: Ron Arad in der Galerie Stefan Vogdt. Galerie der Moderne, Munich, Germany
: Ron Arad Studio Works: 1981-2003. Louisa Guinness Gallery, London, England
: Von Mensch zu Mensch. Sparda Bank, Münster, Germany
: Ron Arad. Galeria Marconi, Milan, Italy
: Ron Arad. Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
: Works on projects including the Maserati headquarters showroom in Modena, Italy and Y’s fashion store for Yohji Yamamoto in Tokyo. Begins designing for the Upperworld Hotel at Battersea Power Station, London.
2002: Two Floors, Galeria Marconi, Milan, Italy (solo)
2001: Delight in Dedark, Galeria Marconi, Milan, Italy (solo)
2000: Not Made By Hand Not Made in China, Galeria Marconi, Milan, Italy (solo)
: ‘Before and After Now’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (solo)
1998: R.T.W. Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (solo)
1997: Ron Arad new acquisitions, Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts (solo)
: Ron Arad at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia (solo)
: Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer. Spazio Krizia, Milan, Italy
: Designed for Delight. Alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, Canada; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
: Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer. Spazio Krizia, Milan, Italy
1996: R.T.W. Glasgow Festival of Architecture & Design, Glasgow, Scotland
1995: Ron Arad. Gazi, Athens, Greece
: Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer. Triennial, Milan, Italy
: The work of Ron Arad, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki (solo)
1994: ‘L’Esprit du Nomade’, Cartier Fondation, Paris (solo)
1993: ‘Design in the 20th Century’, Grand Palais (solo)
: Breeding in Captivity. Edward Totah Gallery, London, England
: One Off and Short Runs. Centre for Contemporary Arts: Warsaw, Krakow, Poland
1991: A Break with Tradition. Rohska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
1990 - 1995: Sticks and Stones. One Offs and Short Runs. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
1990: Ron Arad Recent Works, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (solo)
: Design Museum, London, England
: Triennale, Milan, Italy
: Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
: Design Museum, Osaka, Japan
: Documenta 8. Kassel, Germany
1987: ‘Nouvelles Tendences’, Centre Georges Pompidou (solo)
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
1986: Intellectual Interiors. With P. Starck, R. Kawakubo, S. Kuramata. Seibo, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collections

: Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
: Ghent Museum, Ghent, Belgium
: Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
: Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
: Design Museum, Ghent, Belgium
: Design Museum, Osaka, Japan
: Design Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
: Design Museum, London, England
: Centre National d'Art Plastique, Paris, France
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
: Musée National d'Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Montreal, Canada
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
: Trienale, Milan, Italy
: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
: St Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
: Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: Rohsska Design Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
: Powerhouse, Sydney, Australia
: Neue Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
: Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
: Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

Literature

1999: Ron Arad by Deyan Sudjic, graphics Angus Hyland, Pentagram, Laurence King Publishers
1998: Ron Arad by Raymond Guidot, Olivier Boissiere, Dis Voir
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 1990