Boaz Parnas
| Boaz Parnas | |
|---|---|
 Boaz Parnas portrait 2025.jpg Parnas seated on one of his sculptural works, 2025 | |
| Born | February 7, 1998 Jerusalem, Israel |
| 🏫 Education | Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; The Glasgow School of Art |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | painting, sculpture, installation |
| 🌐 Website | boazparnas |
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Boaz Parnas (born 7 February 1998)[1] is an Israeli-German visual artist based in London who works with painting, sculpture, installation, and digital media.[1] Parnas' work has been discussed in FAD Magazine and has been included in group exhibitions and public projects reported on by Haaretz.[2][3]
Early life and education
Parnas was born in Jerusalem, Israel.[1] He studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem between 2020 and 2024, graduating with a BFA (Hons) in Fine Arts.[4] During 2022 to 2023, he attended The Glasgow School of Art through a student exchange programme.[1]
Career
In 2023, Parnas participated in Draw Me a Fist (צייר.י לי אגרוף), a touring exhibition of protest posters in Israel that was reported by Haaretz and by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and reviewed by the art journal Erev Rav.[5][6][7] A photograph from Draw Me a Fist showing several participating works, including one by Parnas, appears on the cover of Political Art in Israel by art historian Gideon Ofrat (Levin Press, 2023).[8]
In 2024, Parnas took part in a performance organised by the human-rights organisation Parents Against Child Detention (PACD).[9] The performance was covered by Israel’s Channel 12 News, while related PACD exhibition activity and its public presentation were later reported by Haaretz and The Forward.[3][10]
In 2025, Parnas exhibited in the United Kingdom, including at CBS Gallery in Liverpool.[11] He also participated in group exhibitions in London, including presentations associated with the London Design Festival.[12]
Work and reception
In an article published by FAD Magazine, the reviewer characterised Parnas’ practice as engaging contradiction not as loose inconsistency but as a resolved synthesis, arguing that his work “revels in the delicate synthesis born of the uneasy dialectics often posited throughout, the resolution of the work being its foremost triumph”.[2] Corridor8 described Parnas’ work as “dominant, distinct, cartoonish, colourful, and happy”, and noted his use of stuffed FIBC bags.[11]
Selected exhibitions (chronological)
- No Plaice Like Home, COLAB Tower, London (Side/Step Festival, 2025).[2]
- Loneliness in the Digital Age, SPARK:York (Spark Studios), York (2025).[13]
- Parliament of Things, Purist Gallery, London (London Design Festival, 2025).[12]
- Monster Truck, CBS Gallery, Liverpool (2025).[11]
- Innocence Disrupted: Children in Wartime (touring exhibition and performance series, 2024).[3][10]
- Draw Me a Fist (touring exhibition, 2023).[5][7]
Online projects
Prior to his formal art studies, Parnas co-founded the Facebook page Garlic Bread Memes, which was covered by The Washington Post and The Independent in 2016.[14][15]
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Starbuck, Richard (10 March 2025). "Boaz Parnas". Floorr Magazine. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Boaz Parnas, Swallowed Whole". FAD Magazine. 5 January 2026. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Tel Aviv Paints the Pain of Gazan Children". Haaretz. 2 May 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ "Graduate Exhibition 2024 - Boaz Parnas". Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "אסור לשתוק מול הגזענות וההסתה: אמנים הציבו תערוכה לאורך נתיבי איילון". Haaretz (in עברית). 25 July 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ "כשאגרוף, מגילת העצמאות, כביש ושפה אישית נפגשים". Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (in עברית). Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Arieli, Dana (25 June 2025). "גלגולו של אגרוף (Draw Me a Fist)". Erev Rav (in עברית). Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ Ofrat, Gideon (2023). אמנות פוליטית בישראל (Political Art in Israel) (in עברית). Levin Press. ISBN 9789659311514. Search this book on
- ↑ Channel 12 News report on PACD performance-art protest (in עברית). Keshet 12 News. 2024.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Innocence Disrupted Exhibit Children War Art". The Forward. 25 June 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Stoces-Brown, Mia (23 March 2025). "Monster Truck". Corridor8. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Parliament of Things". London Design Festival. September 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ↑ "Loneliness in the Digital Age". Charles Hutch Press. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
- ↑ Dewey, Caitlin (9 June 2016). "The Internet is warring over a photo of garlic bread". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ "The Internet is warring over a photo of garlic bread for the most absurd reason". The Independent. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
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