Ghiora Aharoni

Ghiora Aharoni founded his multi-disciplinary studio for art and design in New York City in 2004. His artworks engage time and language as a medium, and explore dualities, such as the intersection of religion and science, and the interconnected relationships of seemingly disparate cultures. Much of his work involves recontextualizing traditional objects or symbols—from icons to cultural artifacts to sacred texts—imbuing them with a new meaning that asks the viewer to question or reconsider their conventional social or cultural significance.

A graduate of Yale University, Aharoni’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums, institutions and galleries, and is in the collections of The Pompidou Centre, 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, the UAE, Israel and India.

The photograph of Ghiora Aharoni was taken by Beowulf Sheehan.