Hilla Toony Navok (b. 1974, Tel Aviv) lives and works in Tel Aviv. She completed a BA in Design at the Wizo College of Art and Design in Haifa (1995) before graduating from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design MFA program (2009). She currently teaches at the Bezalel BA program in Jerusalem. Navok tracks degraded forms of high modernism and abstraction in popular consumer products. Known for her playful sculptural use of vernacular materials, Navok interrogates the very notion of display. She pits consumer and industrial products firmly within abstraction, questioning and complicating their given functions. Navok’s approach to her materials is defined by dualities: she is simultaneously critical and empathetic, attracted and repulsed, playful and melancholic, analytical and intuitive. Her works embody these contradictions, among others: they are both monumental and fragile, performance and sculpture, two and three-dimensional. Navok uses the language of design to question our existential state and relation to consumption, to order and to our own bodies. Navok has exhibited solo at such venues as Atelier Shemi, Kibbutz Cabri (2018); KM Gallery, Berlin (2017); Galerie Klubovna, Brno, Czechia (2017); HIT Gallery, Bratislava (2016); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2015); Circle1 Gallery, Berlin (2015); Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv (2013); Art Cologne (2010); Lokal_30, Warsaw (2010); and Haifa Museum of Art (2010). She has also shown in group exhibitions within Israel and abroad, at such venues as Providence College Galleries (scheduled 2019); Gdańsk City Gallery (2018); Hansen House, Jerusalem (2018); Ashdod Museum of Art (2017); Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York (2016); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2016); Art Basel Miami Beach, Film Sector (2015); Meet Factory, Prague (2015); Petach Tiqva Museum of Contemporary Art (2015). Navok has received The Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum (2018); Yehosua Rabinowitz Tel Aviv Foundation, book grant (2018); Lottery Council for Culture and Art Award, book grant (2017, 2015); Ostrovsky Family Fund (2015); and Samuel Givon Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011). She completed a residency with Artport in 2015.