Uri Aran
b. 1977, Israel
1977 Born Jerusalem
2003 The Cooper Union, New York NY, USA
2004 Bachelor of Design, Bezalel Academy Jerusalem
2007 MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Uri Aran (American, b. 1977, Jerusalem) lives and works in New York, and studied Design at the Bezalel Academy Jerusalem (2004), before graduating with an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, New York (2007). Aran’s practice encompasses a wide range of media and subject matter, including film, sculpture, drawing, and assemblage. Throughout his practice, Aran constructs a language of indeterminate signifiers in an ongoing pursuit of graphic and linguistic systems, and the pushing of these systems 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.”