Hilla Toony Navok

Hilla Toony Navok is an Israeli artist based in Tel Aviv whose practice encompasses drawing, sculpture and video.

In her monumental yet fragile sculptures, made out of functional ready made objects, Navok reveals traces of high Modernism and abstraction embedded within everyday surroundings - including public spaces, mass-produced home decor, and popular consumer items.  

The resultant works expose the fantasies and promises which are concealed within the very concept of design.  

In recent years Navok exhibited extensively in Israel and abroad main venues including: Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv, Haifa Museum of Art, Artlv, Tel Aviv Biennial, Herzliya Biennial, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Rockefeller Museum Jerusalem, Noga Gallery Tel Aviv, MeetFactory Prague, Local 30 gallery Warsaw, Neues Museum Weimar, Art Cologne fair in a special solo project (New positions) and Redtory Art Center Guangzhou, Hit gallery Bratislava.  

Navok received The Givon Prize for Young Artists from The Tel Aviv Museum in 2011,  and the Creative Encouragement Award  from Israel's Ministry of Culture  in 2012. She recently completed a year long residency at Artport in Tel Aviv.    

In addition she co-curated the 2009 Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art and was co-editor of the art magazine Picnic Magazine.

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