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Sagie Azoulay is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tel Aviv. Working across painting, drawing, installation and public art, his practice explores relationships between images, materials, architectural space and cultural references. Azoulay holds a BFA and MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2017. He has exhibited extensively in Israel and internationally, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Ashdod Art Museum, Petach Tikva Museum of Art and Bat Yam Museum of Art. His practice also includes commissioned public artworks and participation in the Israeli Pavilion project at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. He has received numerous awards and grants, including the Osnat Mozes Prize for a Young Artist (2014), the Ministry of Culture and Sport Prize (2019), and a Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Grant (2025). His works are held in institutional collections including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Ashdod Art Museum and the Knesset Collection. Alongside his artistic practice, he teaches at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.