Ghiora Aharoni founded his multi-disciplinary studio for art and design in New York City in 2004, and his work has been exhibited internationally in museums, institutions and galleries in the U.S., Europe, India and Israel.
A graduate of Yale University, Aharoni’s work is in the collections of The Pompidou Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Vatican, The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Morgan Library & Museum, The Huntington Library and Museum and The Anu Museum—as well as private collections and foundations in North America, Europe, Israel and India.
Aharoni’s artworks are characterized by engaging time and text as a medium, and an interest in exploring dualities, such as the intersection of religion and science, and the intertwined relationships of seemingly disparate cultures. Much of his work involves traditional objects or symbols—such as cultural artifacts or sacred texts—that have been recontextualized and imbued with meaning that asks the viewer to question or reconsider their conventional social/cultural significance.
In 2022, as part of a yearlong collaboration with The Textile Museum/Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection in Washington, D.C., Aharoni’s solo exhibition, Let Me Hear Your Voice, was on view from February through October. The exhibition employed traditional symbols of modesty—antique and vintage headdresses, which were embellished and re-contextualized as sculptural venerations of women—to create a lens through which the viewer is asked to assess prohibitions prescribed for women. In April 2022, Aharoni’s solo exhibition, Inception, was on view at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York.
In 2020-2021 Aharoni’s work was exhibited as part of the first Asia Society Triennial in New York and his work entered the collection of The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In 2020, his work was acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as well as The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, and he was the Artist-in-Residence at the India Art Fair, where he exhibited an installation exploring intercultural coexistence. In 2019, Aharoni’s sculpture, The Tablets, became part of The Vatican’s collection, and was permanently installed in The Vatican Library; he was invited to present a solo artist project at the India Art Fair in New Delhi; and his sculptures were on view at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam in the exhibition Kabbalah: The Art of Jewish Mysticism.
