Nivi Alroy, a New York based Israeli artist received her BA with special distinction from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel in 2003.

After two years in Paris, she was the first visual communication artist in her field to receive the America Israel cultural foundation (AICF) fellowship award. She earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York where she received the Alumni award and the Frida E. Issicof award for an outstanding achievement in a thesis show. In 2007 she was commissioned to execute a site-specific installation for the Galapagos art space political art show in Brooklyn. Her work was exhibited in dozens of group shows. In 2008 she was selected as the featured artist of Manhattan Times and Lilith Magazine (“Israeli artists make waves in New York, April 2008”). In 2008 Nivi received the A.I.R gallery fellowship award. She is working towards her solo show in the gallery, scheduled for June 2009 and a solo show in Kayma Gallery in Israel in fall 2009. Nivi is a regular invited speaker at the United Nations Center for Peace Studies. Nivi is the founder and director of “Split Ends”, artist public talks between Israeli and Palestinian artists.

My work deals with the tension between the intimacy of private domains, whether a human body or the domestic environment and the intrusive forces threatening and altering them. I explore the changing relationship between outer and inner spaces: the border of the body and the space around it, the borders of the interior or even of the paper and sculpture itself erupt, exposing an intimate moment. 

In the world I thrive to create the reality surrounding us goes through transformation. Gravity goes berserk, doors convert to chairs, a watchdog is transformed into a threatening monster and the monster is the body. The body becomes a system of receptacles and drawers, which constitute the house itself. The public space infiltrates the private space and the boundaries are infringed in a circular manner. Where can we find the line separating a body from its surroundings? Where does one draw the line separating the body in a space? Does the body "drip" outward, to the house and its vicinity, to the private space, trickling into the urban environment surrounding it? Looking at it from a parallel point of view, what is the function of the surroundings in an era in which the body's boundaries stretch, shrink breached and are constantly expanded.