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Shmuel Ben-Shalom
Born in Israel, 1973
Education
1997-2000
* Industrial Design, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem.
Academic Roles
2009-2014
* Professor at ‘HIT’ Holon Institute of Technology (Department of Interior Design).
* Guest Professor at ‘HIT’ Holon Institute of Technology (Department of Architecture).
* Member of the examining committee at ‘HIT’ Holon Institute of Technology (Department of Interior Design).
Career
2013 - Present
* President Co-founder and Chief Designer of the Ark Experience.
2000 - Present
* Artist and Designer.
* Founder and owner of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Design), a design company based in Tel-Aviv.
* Production Designer (Commercials and Music Videos).
2007
* Co-founder of ‘Asafsuf Group’ - a thinking group combining Designers and Psychologists.
2001
* Set Dresser on ‘Spy Game’ (Film).
2000
* Head of Graphics Department on ‘The Insider’ (Film).
Solo Exhibitions
2016
* Gal Gaon Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
2012
* “Slice”, furniture collection. ‘Talents Design Gallery’, Tel-Aviv.
2010
* “Mad”, collection of furniture, lighting fixtures & Home equipment. ‘Talents Design Gallery’, Tel-Aviv.
2008
* The Israeli representative, exhibiting at ‘Salone Satellite’, Milan.
2000
* “Sponge” furniture. a solo exhibition in Verona, Italy.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
* Avram Saban Gallery, Miami.
2015
* Salone de Mobile Milano
* "Public Movement", Tel-Aviv Museum.
2013
* "Fresh paint", Tel-Aviv.
2014
* "Fresh paint", Tel-Aviv.
2012
* "Dezeen Exhibition", ‘Design Week’, London.
* ''Rosana Orlandi Gallery’, ‘Design Week’, Milan.
2011
* "Post Fossil", Holon Museum of Design Israel. (Curator: Li Edelkoort)
2008
*ASAFSUF GROUP Exhibiting at the Architecture Biennale, Bat-Yam, Israel.
2001
* "Salone Satellite", Milan, (by Bezalel academy).
2000
* "Pier Stotenmier" gallery, Paris.
2000
* Exhibition of winners of the 1999 Shart foundation, Ramat-Gan Museum.
1999
* Exhibition of winners of the 1998 Shart foundation, Ramat-Gan Museum.
