Uriel Miron

Uriel Miron was born in 1968 in Tel Aviv

Uriel Miron was born in Tel Aviv in 1968. His grandmother was Dvora Schocken, an art collector and gallery owner. His mother died when he was a child, and he lived for many years in the United States with his father, the literary scholar Dan Miron.

From 1986 to 1990 he studied literature at Yale University and earned a B.A. In 1990 he returned to Israel and studied art at Bezalel, graduating with honors in 1995. He then earned an M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1998.

After his return in 1998 he showed work at the Israel Museum. He later held solo shows at the Herzliya Museum, the Mishkan of Art in Ein Harod and the H2 center in Augsburg, Germany. Since 1999 he has taught sculpture and drawing at Shenkar, where he is a senior lecturer.

His work often uses objects such as plastic chairs and cardboard boxes to form invented creatures, and explores links between sculpture, drawing and print. In 2010 he was appointed to the visual arts section of the Ministry of Culture and Sport. He is married to the curator Aya Miron.