Uri Aran

Biography

Uri Aran’s art practice encompasses a wide range of media and subject matter, including film, sculpture, drawing, and assemblage. No matter the form it takes, Aran is most interested in taking everyday systems of meaning - like the rules of graphic design, or the ways we make a simple map - and stretching them to the point of disintegration.

“The discord of meaning in language is something I’m interested in”, he has explained. “I don’t know if it’s because English is not my mother tongue; I see a delay of meaning. I see things as mediated—almost everything is quoted.”

Notable Solo Exhibitions

Take This Dog For Example at The Douglas Hyde Gallery (Dublin, 2023)

House at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (New York, 2020)

Tenants Like These at Sadie Coles HQ (London, 2019)

Mice at Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne, 2016)

Notable Group Exhibitions

Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 2014)

A Needle Walks into a Haystack at Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, 2014)

The Encyclopedic Palace at 55th International Art Exhibition for the Venice Biennale (Venice, 2013)

Public Collections Include

LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles)

DMA Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas)

KADIST (Paris and San Francisco)

RISD Museum (Providence)

Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)

Press

He has been featured in Artforum, ArtReview, frieze, The New Yorker, Mousse Magazine, among others.