Arik Weiss (b. 1974, Montreal) is a visual artist based in Tel Aviv. His practice spans digital collage, video and installation. He also works as a designer and art director for film and television.
He received an MFA in visual communication from Pratt Institute in New York and is a graduate of the postgraduate art program at Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College.
Artist statement
I work with photographs from online archives and images I create myself. Through digital manipulation and projections onto glass and mirrors, I dismantle familiar images and give them new contexts.
My work explores how images shape memory and become myths. By exposing how familiar images are made, I question their idealized worlds and the gap between an event and its lasting image.
Exhibitions
2022 | ‘IDI’ | The Lab gallery, Tel Aviv | Curator: Sharon Tuval
2019 | Postgraduate final show | 17 Hayarkon Gallery, Tel Aviv | Curator: Nicola Trezzi
2019 | ‘What the matter wants?’ group exhibition | Givon Art Forum Gallery, Tel Aviv | Curator: Nicola Trezzi
2019 | ‘The Final Frontier’ group exhibition | Artists’ Residence, Herzliya | Curator: Ran Kasmy Ilan
2019 | ‘Fresh Paint’ art fair | Expo Center, Tel Aviv
2018 | ‘Sunrise’ group exhibition | Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv | Curators: Lia Tzigler and Jasmine Vardi
Publications
2019 | Jerusalem Post | Arts & Entertainment