About
My work offers an interdisciplinary approach to narrative and the body. I take intimate images and present them in the public space, exploring feminine forms of empowerment.
I investigate sculpture in danger by playing with balance, thus creating a sense of threat of breaking while uniting content and form.
The meeting between the organic and the digital, the body and the space, is a guideline in my creative process, so recently I developed ways to cultivate these issues using new technologies like 3D printing and laser engravings.
My drawings are another integral part of my work, which act as a conduit to my sculptures.
Biography
Yuli Aloni Primor is an transdisciplinary visual artist investigating the feminine psyche as it relates to both personal and existing modes of myth making and heritage.
Born July 18, 1986 in Tel Aviv to a family of artists and civil rights activists, Aloni moved with her family at age seven to NYC, where she grew up. She currently works between Tel Aviv, Berlin, and New York.
Before moving back to Israel-Palestine at age nineteen, Aloni attended three semesters in an interdisciplinary program at Hampshire College, (Massachusetts). Her focus was on film, creative writing, and theatre.
In 2009 Aloni enrolled in Bezalel Academy of the Arts, (Jerusalem), where she received a B.A. from the Fine Arts Department.
In 2020 Aloni lived six months in Berlin where she received an Artist Visa and studio. In May 2023 she graduated with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She currently works from her studio in MANA Contemporary.
CV
Yuli Aloni Primor
Born July 1986 in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
EDUCATION
2023 MFA, School of Visual Arts. Visual Art Department, New York, New York, USA.
2013 BA Bezelel Acedamy of Arts and Design, Visual Arts Department. Jerusalem, Israel.
2008 Completed two years at the BA film program, Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2006 Completed two years at the BA Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Hampshire College MA, USA.
2004 LaGuardia High School for Music, Art and the Performing Arts, Visual Arts Department, NYC, USA.
2004 The Oxbow Residency Art Program. California, USA.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 BFA Graduate Show, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
2019 Fresh Paint Fair 11, Special Project. Curated by Yifat Gurion. Tel Aviv.
2019 Daughters of Albion, Curated by Orit Mor. Gallery 4. Tel Aviv.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Upcoming: Jerusalem Biennale, curated by Udi Urman, Jerusalem, Israel
2023 Jerusalem Biennale, JCC, curated by Udi Urman, New York, USA https://mmjccm.org/current-exhibit
2023 ART FOR HEALING, curated by Lili Almog and Aya Goshen, L’Space Gallery, 524 W 19th St. New York, USA
2023 Mykonos Biennale, Curated by Lydia Venieri, Mykonos Greece. https://www.mykonosbiennale.com/artfestival/artist/yuli-aloni-primor/
2023 Spring /Break Art Show, WILD CARD. New York, NY https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/07/quiet-moments-cut-through-the-noise-springbreak-art-show-2023
2023 The Artists Hand, SVA Chelsea Gallery, Curated by Sara Raza, NYC, USA.
2023 SVA Gramercy Gallery, Curated by Tyson Skross. Feb. 22, NYC, USA
2023 A/Typical, 42 Walker St. The Opening Gallery, Curated by Dr. Sozita Goudouna, Feb. 9. NYC, USA
2022 Material Mixed Tape, New Collectors Gallery, Curated by Sibilla Maiarelli. NYC, USA
2021 Summer Showers, Curated by The Moving Company, Essex Flowers Gallery. New York, USA
2021 AI museum collective, organized by Shany Hadad founder & CEO of Brainnü. Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 The End of Conversation. Illuminati Art Night 001, Curated by Marina Pozner. UNDER 52, Tel Aviv.
2016 The Kick Inside, Curated by Gilat Nadivi and Vera Pilpoul. Florentine 45 Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2019. Womb, Curated by Teva Harel. Samila Gallery, Yaffo, Israel.
2017 Intervals Show 4, Curated by Ofra Harnam. Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2017 Fresh Paint Fair 9, Secret Postcard Project, Tel Aviv.
2016 Intervals Show 3, Curated by Ofra Harnam, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2016 The Rite of Spring II, Curated by Shlomit Altman, Puriya 1, Tel Aviv.
2014 The Rite of Spring, Curated by Shlomit Altman, Puriya 1, Tel Aviv.
2010 Neo Barbarism, Curated by Naomi Aviv and Noam Segal, Rothschild 12, Tel Aviv.
MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
2017 Innocence, M&H, Milk-And-Honey-Magazine. http://milkandhoneymagazine.com.
2017 DNA Magazine, Sputnik Gallery.
COLLECTIONS
Nadine Nieszawer collection
Liora Ofer collection
Private collections
PRIZES
2021 - 2023 Scholarship SVA MFA Fine Arts Department
Selected Reviews
‘Quiet moments cut through the noise at Spring/Break Art Show 2023’ By Torey Akers, 7 September 2023
Plenty of other artists meld humour and fear in their !WILD CARD! works, but New York City-based curator Lingfei Ren expands that fusion into feminine poetics with her selections at stand 1127, tucked away against a back wall on the 11th floor. The Tel Aviv-born artist Yuli Aloni Primor has contributed a stark, stunning floor sculpture, Madison (2019), that updates the intimate effect of feminist icons like Eva Hesse or Kiki Smith for a new era. As a headless fiberglass torso attempts to escape her sinking plinth, the weight of art history and the presence of the viewer seem to arrest her efforts mid-movement.
‘Yuli Aloni Primor’s Solo Exhibition ‘Daughters of Albion’
By Ben Baruch Blitch, September 9, 2019
Yuli Aloni Primor presents in Gallery 4, at Florentine House, a drawing exhibition under the title ‘Daughters of Albion', which corresponds with romantic artist-poet William Blake, in which his poem gives attention to the rape myth. Myth or not myth, Aloni-Primor’s works on paper is fascinating and exciting not only because of the excellent workmanship, but because of the distorted characters presented in it with great talent. It is evident that Aloni-Primor explores the culture of painting with an emphasis on the complex romantic narrative of the 18th and 19th century with critical eyes and in spite of the mannerisms immersed in the visual culture of the era.
Aloni-Primor is intriguing, attractive and interesting, also if pertaining to minor painting, doing without the William Blakey exuberance, from which she draws her origins. And finally, you will or will not - Yuli Aloni-Primor is one of the nobles - the granddaughter of Shulamit Aloni, the daughter of artist Sigal Primor, whose sculpture excites me every day I pass by it, and Udi Aloni, who at the time managed and initiated the Avant-Garde Gallery, Bograshov. Yet she chose to exhibit in a space that is not quite recognized as an established space, which has recently consolidated its unique artistic repertoire. Nobles Oblige - The nobility must lead and so it does.
- Originally published in Hebrew
The Arrested Passion of Bezalel Graduates By Galia Yahav
Published in “Ha’aretz” Arts, 07/29/2013
Yuli Aloni’s mannequin-esque hyper-realistic sculpture is evocative of Takashi Murakami’s popping anime-esque toy-scapes and of the works by Charles Ray, Robert Gober, Cindy Sherman, the Chapman brothers, Uri Katzenstein and Eli Gur-Arie.
Like them, Aloni engages with grotesque mutations and phantasmagoric hybrids between body parts, furniture and consumer goods, creating a pernicious world, whose erotic winds blow cold and cruel.
The most impressive of her pieces depicts a nude girl, the style is manniquin-esque, a large gray monster protrudes from her mouth, a 3D inflated computer game animation, that doubles as a comic-strip speech-bubble, which the child roars-vomits. Another doll- like figure, a bald amputee, is swallowing-vomitting a bright-yellow ponytail. Either it had just swallowed a blonde ponytailed girl, or it is spitting fire.
A deformed fur-winged angel is leaping into space out of a wooden tree stump, one of it’s branches stretches and leaps, turning into an over-sized leg. Another decapitated, legless mannequin is boxed in a glass display case like a luxury item, it’s one hand stretches palms-out against the glass towards the viewer, like a prisoner making contact with a visitor through a barrier, or trying to push its way from within and break out. These are sculptural signs of a momentum that begins with animation and comics, amorphous shape-spans that mannequin- esque result in a grotesque carnival that “puts the aesthetic into question” as Aloni writes in her statement, “and the aesthetic is just another critique caught red-handed”.
- Translated by Shlomzion Kenan
Art Rounds: Meet the art-world’s Rising Stars By Ruti Kadosh
Published in NRG, online magazine 07/24/2013
Yuli Aloni-Primor’s work has elements that surface overboard; body organs and doll mutations that contain at the same time domestic memories and a terrifying freakishness. The different materials relate to different points in time creating an intuitive process that attempts to meticulously reconstruct a spectral dream that had taken up the control of chaos. The materials in use are: sea-sand, fiberglass, metal, polyurethane-foam and crushed stone.
- Translated by Shlomzion Kenan
Neo Barbarism, 2011. Garbo; Video Installation by artist Yuli Aloni Primor. Exhibition catalogue. Excerpt from catalogue.
“...The various parts of the installation constitute a kind of mini-pornographic mechanism, crossbreeding sex with archaic radio-communications (moral police?); bringing to mind what Walter Benjamin called “mimetic modern machines”. The surreal organism created by Aloni- Primor – comprising as mentioned a walkie-talkie, a vacuum cleaner, a boy-manikin with unzipped trousers, a metallic soundtrack carrying a forgotten utopian memory and photographic portraits of the artist, as well as an auto-erotic organ in the shape of a mirror and manikin legs in sexy attire – functions as a productive machine whose various organs are wired together. The boy, vacuuming leftovers and dusty waste seemingly discharged by the communications sets, may be seen as receiving or being fed, but also as emitting and feeding the means of communication with the contents of his fantasy-rich inner world, which seems to contradict his appearance as a highly polite, probably slightly Oedipal boy, a good boy helping his mother with her housework.”
- Naomi Aviv and Noam Segal
02/26/23 The Opening Gallery, 42 Walker Street in Manhattan, presents A/Typical Now By The National Herald https://www.thenationalherald.com/going-on-in-greek-american-community-67/
02/09/23 A/TYPICAL NOW https://www.theopeninggallery.com/
10/14/22 Material Mixedtape https://www.newcollectorsgallery.com/exhibitions/material-mixtape
11/09/2019 ‘Daughters of Albion’ Mirabelle. Mirabelle.co.il/בנות-אלביון-יולי-פרימור-אלוני/
12/09/2019 ‘Daughters of Albion’ Exhibition of Yuli Aloni Primor. The Arts Section of Haaretz Newspaper. Exhibitions in Tel Aviv.
12/09/2019 ‘Daughters of Albion’ by Meital Sharabi. Maariv; Hamekomon. https://hamekomon.maariv.co.il/entertainment/133489/
08/09/2019 ‘Daughters of Albion’ The Magazine of Art of Sarah Peled. https://saloona.co.il/peledsara/?p=445
2016 The Kick Inside. By Smadar Sheffi, The Window. Online reviews of art critic Smadar Sheffi http://www.smadarsheffi.com/
2010 Renovation of Tel Aviv: Adding a Floor to the House. By Noam Glinkevich “Building and Housing”. On vitrage glass work designed by Yuli Aloni Primor.
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