Naama Arad (Hebrew: נעמה ערד) is an Israeli sculptor and installation artist born in 1985.
Using the language of the bureaucratic secretarial action, Arad converts architectural structures and foundations into everyday office materials.
This contradictory position—the artist as laborious maker of objects empty of any functional, social or aesthetic value—becomes even more acute when the result carries a monumental and architectural tone; this is particularly visible in two cases: the first is a series of black lines through which the artist took control of the peculiar shape of the exhibition space hosting her solo show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2015; the second is EL AL (2012) in which a found image of a Roman arch is printed—scaled down to 355 x 291 cm—Xeroxed, shredded and finally exhibited hanging from the ceiling.
[4][5] In 2016 Arad's work was included as part of the exhibit, "Father Figures Are Hard to Find" at the New Society for Visual Arts.
[6] Arad's work was included in "Bodyscapes," an exhibit curated by Adina Kamien-Kazhdan at the Israel Museum through most of 2020.