Ron Arad

(British, born 1951)

4 white objects by ron arad

Ron Arad

4 White Objects, 2012

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4 black objects by ron arad

Ron Arad

4 Black Objects, 2012

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flat mate by ron arad

Ron Arad

Flat Mate

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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

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

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

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