View artwork »

View exhibitions »

View videos and articles »

Visit our Information Center to browse the artist file »

Romy Achituv, painter and sculptor, born 1958 in Rome, Italy, He lives and works in Israel, New York City, USA, and Seoul, South Korea. A member of the International Academy for Digital Arts and Sciences, and a founding member of ARTEAM, (a not-for-profit collective) The Interdisciplinary Art Collective, Israel, where he created "The Garden Library Database Visualization Project". He is currently WCU Professor of New Media at Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

Education

1980-1981 Casting workshop for Bronze sculptures, Atarot, Jerusalem
1980-1981 Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1981-1985 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, BFA
1986-1989 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Philosophy
1990-1991 New York Academy of Art. New York City, USA< Advanced Studies

Awards And Prizes

1984 Samuel Prize for Achievement in Painting, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1985 Elhanani Award for Excellence for a Bezalel Graduate, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1984-85, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Prize
1985-86, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Prize
1986 Residency Guest Artist, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
1986-87, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Prize
1988 Prize for a Young Artist, for Art and Sculpture, Ministry of Education and Culture
1989 Scholarship, Art Center, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
1989 Scholarship, Jerusalem Fund, Israel
1990 Scholarship, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York, USA
1992 Hannah and Yitzchak Ish-Horowitz Prize
1999 Grant, Greenwall Foundation, New York City, USA
1998 Grant, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City, USA
1998 Residency, Kampo Cultural Center, New York City, USA
1998 Residency, Galapagos Art Space, New York City, USA
1999 Grant, Greenwall Foundation, New York City, USA
1999 New Media Invision Award, Invision Design (ID) Magazine, for "Text Rain"
2000 Critics' Choice Award, European Media Art Festival (Emaf), for "TextRain"
2003-04, Residency, Guest Artist, Israel Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
2011 Grant, Harpo Foundation, for the Production of The Garden Library Data Visualization Project
2009-13, World Class University (WCU) Research Grant, National Research Foundation of Korea, Korean Ministry of Education, Science,and Technology, South Korea
2013 Residency, Artist, Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon, South Korea

Environmental Sculptures

2015 Cataract Gorge, Bruges Triennial, Dampoort (the Marine Gateway to Bruges), Bruges, Belgium