About
I create as a reaction to immediate life context.
In my solo exhibitions that have been exhibited over the years,
my personal story is represented as personal/family/ social questions and thoughts from different lifetimes.
Esti Drori Hayut, Multidisciplinary artist
I am a multidisciplinary artist.
I began my professional path as a photojournalist, then proceeded to work in different fields of art and design. I have designed and created wooden items, jewelry, and built a shoe design brand named “The Shoe Story”.
Simultaneously with design, I created art and presented in exhibitions. Since I stopped designing shoes I am focusing only on art.
In my work I connect the wide variety of fields and materials that I have worked with. I paint with oil paints, industrial paints and a variety of different materials – on canvas, plywood, inside drawers, boxes, on pieces of wood that I have found. I join together ready made with painting, creating assemblages.
I create out of yearning. A yearning for that slippery feeling of fantasy, of a utopian place which has no connection to the reality of actual existence.
My exhibitions accompany and echo events in my life.
1982 - Photographer for a local newspaper in Haifa
1985-1989 - Independent photographer
1989-2014 - Design and creation: Wood work, jewelry design
Teaching art classes for adults and children.
Exhibition curator
2007-2013 – THE SHOE STORY - Shoe designer and owner of the brand.
Painting and participate in exhibitions during all the periods above.
In recent years - Independent artist.
Solo exhibitions
2022 - "Opposite blows the wind" Artist wall ,Artist House Tel Aviv
Curator: Arie Berkovitch
2021 - “Touching” – "Shared Art Salon" gallery, Tel Aviv.
Curator: Dr Nira Tesler
2019 - “Fractures” - “Omer Tirosh” gallery, Jaffa.
Curator: Dr Nira Tesler
2018 - “Wonder Land” - “Artist House ”, Tel Aviv.
Curator: Arie Berkovitch.
2015 - “Deer God” - “Tova Osman” gallery,Tel Aviv
Curator: Tova Osman.
2009 - “The House Under The Trees” – "Artist House" Tel Aviv.
Curator: Arie Berkovitch.
2004 - “Que sera sera” – "Artist House", Tel Aviv.
Curator: Myself.
Group exhibitions
2021 – "Shelter city" - My studio in Kiryat Hamalacha Tel Aviv. - Shared exhibition with Nadia Gorenstein, as part of Tel Aviv’s illustration week.
2021 - “The Eye And The Spirit” - Rishon Lezion House of Artists.
Curator: Gilit Levin Ronen.
2020 -
" New Members" Rishon Lezion House of Artists.
Curator: Diana Pomerantz.
2020 - “Femmage'" - “Art Salon” Tel Aviv.
Curator: Dr Nira Tesler.
2020 - “Written in Coffee'" - “Art Salon”. Tel Aviv.
Curator: Dr Nira Tesler.
2020 - “Parts Eccelerator" - “ND” Gallery. Ramat Gan
Curator: Eyal Katz.
2019 - “Heartbeat" - Sarah Arman Gallery. Tel Aviv.
Curator: Tova Eldad.
2020 - “Photography- Painting- Fotography .“ND” Gallery. Ramat Gan
Curator: Ronit Rot Hadad.
2019 – "Dreams"- Social Sciences Library. Tel Aviv.
Curator: Eliana Festing.
2019 - “Angels" - Rishon Lezion House of Artists.
Curator: Gilit Levin Ronen.
2019 - “SHEVA” - “Zuzu” Gallery,Emek Hefer
Curator: Rotem Ritov.
2016 - “Blockage" - “Binyamin” Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Curator: Nira Tesler.
2015 - “Hope no Hope” - “Arsof” Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Curator: Batya Winshell.
2013 - “Note book” exhibition - Beit Hair Tel Aviv.
Curator: Guy Moreg.
2006 - Illustrators union group exhibitions, as a guest-
“Harry Potter” - Beit Ariela
“Playing" - Beit Yad Lebanim, Raanana,
“Who's afraid of Mathematics" - Science museum, Jerusalem.
1982 - Grant winners exhibition by Keren Sharet in Helena Rubinshtein Pavilion Museum , Tel Aviv.
Studies
1979 - Art history at Tel Aviv university.
1980-1982 - Photography studies at Wizo College, Haifa.
2014 - Phototherapy studies at The Open University.
