| Professional Experience | |
Since 2001 |
Co founder, Designfenzider, LLC, a NY based design Studio |
| 1999 – 2001 | Shenkar Academy of Engineering & Design, Ramat-Gan, Israel / Design professor |
| 2001 – 2002 | Environmental Sculpturing / Created an environmental sculptures for the borough of Jerusalem |
| 2002 – 2007 | Guest Lecturer - Museum of Modern Art, NY Guest Lecturer - Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA Guest Critic - School of Visual Arts NY Guest Critic - Pratt institute NY Guest Critic - University of the Arts Philadelphia Guest Lecturer - SUNY New Paltz |
| 2006 | Pratt institute NYC / Design professor |
| Education | |
| 1987 - 1990 | Technicoom Givatayim High School, Givatayim, Israel / Architecture department |
| 1995 - 1998 | Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel / Industrial Design department |
| Awards | |
| 2007 | Forbes / chosen as one of the 10 tastemakers of the year |
| 2005 | IcExcellence award / the Israel Cultural Excellence scholarship / chosen artist 2005-2007 |
| 2004 | Red-Dot Award for outstanding design / International Product Design Competition / Germany |
| 2003 | Conduit Award of Distinction / National Design Competition, USA / first prize Honorable mention Award / Conduit National Design Competition, USA / for R.O.B.C. object Honorable mention Award / Conduit National Design Competition, USA / for lamps no. 12&13 |
| 2000 | A.I.C.F. America-Israel Culture Foundation Award |
| 1999 | A.I.C.F. America-Israel Culture Foundation Award |
| 1998 | A.I.C.F. America-Israel Culture Foundation Award |
| 1997 | A.I.C.F. America-Israel Culture Foundation Award Meisler Award for Academic Excellence |
| 1996 | Manufactures Association of Israel Award |
| Solo exhibitions | |
| 2009 | Spaces Etc. /an Exercise in Utility / Wright Gallery, Chicago, US |
| 2006 | XSmall / Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Andrew Carnegie’s office, Curator Gregory Krum, New York US |
| 2005 | Dialectic Design / Tools Galerie / Curator Loic Bigot, Paris France |
| 2001 | One Night Stand / Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery / Curator Sari Paran, Tel-Aviv Israel |
| 2000 | Instabilation / Jerusalem Art Center / Curator Orna Milo, Jerusalem Israel |
| 1999 | Neo Post / Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery / Curators Chanan De-Lange, Deganit Schocken, Tel-Aviv Israel Poubelle / ‘Office in Tel-Aviv’ Gallery / with Deganit Stern Schocken, Curator Rachel Sukman, Tel-Aviv Israel |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2007 | Chandelirous / Shelburne museum / Vermont |
| 2006 | Design Triennial / Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum / New York NY Non-Design Design / Cibone Gallery / Tokyo Japan Tools Galerie at Lafayette Maison / Gallery Lafayette / Paris France |
| 2005 | The Unexpected welcome / Moooi / Studiopiu gallery / Milan New Collection / Dovetusai Gallery / Milan |
| 2004 | Red Dot / Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen / Essen Germany Design Matters / Felissimo Design House / New York NY Conduit Group no.2 / Felissimo Design House / New York NY Paris, capitale de la création / Paris France |
| 2003 | New Design / LyonsWire Gallery / New York NY Domains / Seoul Design Art Museum / Seoul Korea Domains / Nagoya / Japan (traveling show) |
| 2002 | Tokyo Designers Block, Tokyo Japan Design About Design / Tel-Aviv Museum of Art / Tel-Aviv Israel Chain Reaction / Haarets Museum, Tel-Aviv Israel |
| 1999 | Artik / Ramat-Gan Museum of Modern Art / Ramat-Gan Israel |
| Public Collections | |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York US The Museum of Arts & Design / New York US Tel-Aviv Museum of Modern Art / Tel-Aviv Israel Art institute of Chicago / Chicago US Periscope Gallery / Tel-Aviv Israel Gallery Kreo / Paris France Tools Galerie / Paris France |
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| Selected Publications | |
| 2006 | New York Times / “A Vase that is accidental Art” New York Times / “Bright Ideas” Metropolis / “Master of Scale and Minimalism” (US) Metropolis / “Empty Vessel” (JP) MD Magazine / “Dekoratives Licht” (Germany) Surface / “Receptacle Spectacle” (US) EigenHuis & Interieur / “Moooi” (NL) Profil Magazine / “Silhouette de reve” (Switzerland) Dwell / “In the Modern World” (US) Time Magazine / “The luxury Index” (US) Wallpaper / “Accidental Hero” (UK) |
| 2005 | ID / “New & Nobel” (US) L’ Officiel / “1000 models 2005” (FR) NY Times / “House Proud” (US) W Magazine / “bowled over” (US) Interni / Luce Novita’ (IT) Intramuros / “Paris Guide" (FR) BeauArts / Object De Transformation (FR) Dwell / “Bowls” (US) Surface / “Chandeliers” (US) Abitare / Home Design (IT) Genre Magazine / “House Couture” / Sep 05 / US Libération Newspaper / “Object Transformés” (FR) Wallpaper / “Objects of Desire” (UK) Azure / “Sculptural” (CA) Acqua Magazine / “Ron Gilad - design conceptual” (Romania) ArcDesign / “From Structure to Design” (Brazil) City Magazine / “Think Pieces” (US) Oindependente Magazine / Dear Ingo / (PT) World of Interiors / “Milan Antennae” / (UK) SF Chronicle / “Bedside reading, dreaming” / (US) Spaces Magazine / “Idea” (UK)< |
| 2004 | The New York Sun / “Museum quality” / (US) I.D. Magazine / “Market” / (US) Boston Globe / “out of the house” / (US) Graphis Product Design 3 book (US) San Francisco Chronicle / “blockbusters” (US) |
| 2003 | Haaretz / “Run over Vase” (IL) NY Times / “for city Dwellers – gifts with an edge of Luxe” (US) New York Magazine / “Shop Talk” Surface / “Just Sublime” (US) Wallpaper / “Ceci n’est pas Magritte” (UK) Surface / “Structural Integrity” (US) Fusion / “Domains” (CH) AD art&décor / “Reconstruction of Deconstruction / the work of Ron Gilad” (Turkey) Intramuros / “L’asce’tisme obsessionel de Ron Gilad” (France) |
| 2002 | Abitare / “Gilad at the MoMA” (IT) Surface / “Faux Finish” (US) Azure / “Designer Identikit – Ron Gilad” (CA) Clear Magazine / summer issue (US) NY Times / “A young designer rethinks the everyday” (US) |
| 2001 | Axis / “Mind over Matter?” (JP) |
| 2000 | Studio Magazine / “Phenomenological reduction of Table & Rug” (IL) B&D / “First the head then the hand” (IL) |
| Projects | |
| 2005 | Custom- made chandeliers, permanent installation, Nike ‘spirit room gallery’, Berlin, Germany Set design,” The Queens” by Normand Chaurette, Gene Frankel theatre, NYC |
| 2002 | “Concerto No.2 for Stainless Steel and Marble” / Environmental Sculpture/ Jerusalem Israel |
| 2001 | “Concerto No.1 for Stainless Steel and Marble” / Environmental Sculpture/ Jerusalem Israel |
| 1999 | The Nir family condo / interior architecture / Tel Aviv Israel |
| Patents | |
| 2001 | VaseMaker / US Patent / no. D482637 |