Biography

Born in 1958, and raised between Paris and Rehovot, Israel, painter Ron Agam only took up the paintbrush later in life, following a long and successful career as an fine art photographer.  Yet, the robustness and sheer prolificacy of his output since belies the charge that this newfound passion is anything but a calling: Since first embracing his new medium a few short years ago, Mr. Agam’s creative energy has burst forth, embracing a dizzying array of techniques and a brilliant spectrum of forms, in an ever-expanding constellation of individual works. From lenticular, optical experiments to distilled, saturated color-fields, Mr. Agam’s work has, canvas by canvas, explored the process of seeing, all the while keeping an eye on the prize of metaphysical meaning.

“I began this work as a leap, without knowing where it will go,” Mr. Agam explains.  “And I don’t think about it now; I just paint.”  This wellspring of intuition seems to have tapped a deep reservoir of inspiration. As his body of work has compounded, growing to hundreds of individual pieces,  it has cast into relief a central theme of Mr. Agam’s life itself: That the questions one conceives as a child, considering the very abundance of stars in the sky, may yet animate an enduring curiosity in the mature soul.  Indeed, Mr. Agam’s meditative, transcendent canvasses bear witness to this pure fact: That  to contemplate the world deeply is to refresh it’s mystery.  Looking at his canvasses liberates one from what is known, restoring the essential spirit of inquiry that characterizes true freedom.

Exhibition & Honors

Solo

2014 Ron Agam, Opera Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 Ron Agam: The Breakthrough, Vered Gallery, East Hamp- ton, NY
2012 Ron Agam : recent works, The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, Yale University
2011 Ron Agam, BDG gallery, New York City
2009 In Full Bloom, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York City
2001 At the Wall, 92nd Street Y, New York City
2000 At the Wall, Milton & Betty Katz Jewish Community Center, Margate, NJ
1997 At the Wall, Jeanette Weinberg Jewish Community Campus, Albuquerque , NM
1996 At the Wall, Magidson Fine Art, New York City.
1996 At the Wall, Andy Weiss Gallery, Coral Gable, Florida 1994 At the Wall, Magidson Fine Art, New York City

Group

2014 9/11 Memorial Museum, Permanent collection, New York City
2014 Visions of Abstraction, Ron Agam, Opera Gallery, Dubai
2007 Here is New York. Remembering 9/1 J/O J, New-York Historical Society, New York City.
2001 Here is NY /5 New York, 116 Prince Street, New York City, traveling exhibition