Career
She is best known for panoramic photo montages, depicting arrangements of different objects and materials she has collected from demolished buildings around south districts of Tel Aviv. She visited the buildings before demolition, exploring their rooms and examining their walls. After the demolition, Azulay returned, searching through the remains and gathering pieces of them.
In the studio, she sorted and cataloged the findings.
Then photographs are made separately and used for collage preparation. She was born in Jaffa district of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ilit Azoulay received Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1998 and Master of Fine Arts of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv in 2010. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.
She had solo exhibitions in Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art as well as Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv.
She also participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world. She is currently a resident at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. She has works in permanent collections of museums as well as in private collections in Israel and abroad.
2011
The Keys, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, United States of America. 2013
Room #8, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, United States of America. Linguistic Turn, Bravernman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Public Installation, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada. 2014
Implicit Manifestation, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel.
Shifting Degrees of Certainty, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. Les Rencontres d"Arles Discovery Award, Arles, France.
