Ido Michaeli is a multidisciplinary artist whose work resides on the seam of art, design and craft and utilizes textile, stained-glass, ceramic, and painting.
Michaeli's work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums around the world. He holds a Masters of Art and a bachelors of Design, both from the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
B. 1980, Lives and works in New York & Connecticut, USA
My main motivation as an artist is to bridge cultural gaps, challenge racial, and political stereotypes, and to bring together clashing worldviews. I believe that art enables us to find the common ground where it seems as if there is none.
Born to an immigrant family, I grew up on the seam of conflicting identities: The Eastern traditions of my family versus the Western environment we were living in. This cultural split made me constantly juggle between different cultural codes.
I work with diverse mediums such as stained glass, ceramic tiles, painting, video, painting and textiles. I create elaborate images, rich in details, references, and narratives and send them overseas to be handmade by crafters.
My art projects are a form of social practice. They are based on collaborations with traditional artisans from around the world and address questions of interculturalism, identity politics, global economy, and post-colonialism.
Through art, I draw attention to often-overlooked traditions, to offer a conversation between cultures and countries. These collaborations are an invitation to look through another's eyes and search for what we have in common.