Uri Aran '07 Presents Solo Exhibition, ‘I’m a Restaurant’

Visual Arts alumnus Uri Aran '07 is currently featured in a solo show titled I’m a Restaurant at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City.

The exhibition, which opened on May 12, 2023, “speak[s] in a voice that is both singular and plural, confounding I and we,” states the gallery’s press release. Traversing several modes of making, Aran’s work explores how parts arrange into wholes, as well as how meaning is constructed and continues to shift.

“The show moves through a knotty emotional register, rife with dissonance,” writes Tommy Brewer for the gallery. “A sense of comedy, both slapstick and deadpan, permeates the exhibition. But melancholy easily coexists with playfulness: a silly or cute moment can also feel heartbreaking. And of course, everything resonates differently depending on a person’s own history.”

I’m a Restaurant is on view now through July 7, 2023.

Uri Aran lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited extensively, with recent solo exhibitions including: Take This Dog For Example, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, The Fastest Boy In The World, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, in 2021, Eggs For Breakfast and Bird In A Blanket, The Club, in Tokyo, 2021, House, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, 2020, and many others. Aran additionally participated in 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2014, A Needle Walks into a Haystack, Liverpool Biennial 2014, Liverpool, and The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, 2013, as well as numerous group exhibitions. Aran received an MFA from Columbia University, New York in 2007, and additionally studied at Cooper Union, New York and completed a Bachelor of Design at Bezalel Academy Jerusalem, Jerusalem in 2004. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, among others.