Carmel
Ilan

Born in 1960 in Jerusalem, Israel, Carmel Ilan graduated from the department of Fashion Design at Shenkar College in Tel Aviv and from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1984 and in 1986 respectively. She then worked as a lecturer in Shenkar, and as a freelance designer, before founding her own brand 'Ikoo' for children's furniture. In 2000 she started studying Sculpture at Basis School of Art, graduating in 2004. Since graduation, her work has been exhibited in dozens of exhibitions and fairs in Israel and abroad. This includes a solo exhibitions at the Plaza Gallery in Tokyo, ZK Gallery in San Francisco, the Performing Arts Centre in Tel Aviv, the Wilfrid Israel Museum at Kibbutz Hazorea, Triumph Gallery in Moscow; as well as in group exhibitions at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, the Artists House in Tel Aviv, Macadam Gallery in Brussels, the Jaffa Museum, Korner Park Gallery in Berlin. International fairs Ilan participated at include Art Basel Miami, Art Central Hong Kong, Art Stage Singapore, the AAF Fair in Palm Beach, Fresh Paint Israel, and Art Toronto. Ilan lives and works in Tel Aviv.