Shai Azoulay

Azoulay was born in 1971 in Kiryat Shmona. He began his art studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in the mid-1990s and graduated in 2000 with a BFA degree and in 2007 with an MFA degree.
Shai Azoulay´s work has exhibited both in Israel and worldwide including Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum Jerusalem as well as group exhibitions in New York, Tokyo, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Amsterdam and Beijing.
His works are included in public and private collections including The Israel Museum, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Ashdod Art Museum.
Azoulay is a faculty member of the Fine Art Department of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
Among the awards that he has received are Legacy Heritage Fund Prize for a Young Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2007), The Osnat Mozes Prize for Painting for a Young Artist, The Artists House, Jerusalem (2007), Creative Encouragement Award, Ministry of Culture and Sport (2011), Ministry of Culture Award (2018) and The Israeli Lottery 'Landau Prize' for arts and science (2020).

Azoulay lives and works in Jerusalem.