Education and Scholarships
Undergraduate degree from ‘Bezalel’ Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Ceramic and Glass Design Department, specializing in Glass Sculpturing and Design. Excellence Scholarship from the PILCHUCK Glass School, Seattle WA, USA. Exhibitions
Mandel Foundation, 2000
Graduate Exhibition, ‘Bezalel’ Academy for Arts and Design, 2001, Jerusalem, Israel
Material Culture – Cra
ft of Israel, 2004, Saint Louis MO, USA. Fragile Reality – Israeli Artists Creating in Glass, 2007, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Nir is currently working, creating, and teaching at a private studio in Gefen, Israel. Executed at the AJETO glass factory, Novy Bor, Czech Republic
Purchased by the Gefen Gallery, Mamilla, Jerusalem
Currently on view at the Gefen Gallery, Mamilla, Jerusalem
The work includes 40 – 50 different pieces, made to fit the gallery space Each
piece measures 70cm in length, with different circumference measurements
The work illustrates the growing and blossoming progression of a living being. Some spectators may see the work as the blossoming of a plant, while others may interoperate it as the growing of a living being. The different colors symbolize the animals, the beauty in nature, the renewal of vegetation, the creation of life, and the revitalization that transpires every day, season, and year. The pieces, in their varying forms, represent the growing, the containment, and the coming of being. The pieces seem to cage air within them, as if they were living.
