Ella Amitay-Sadovsky is a painter and stop-motion animation artist whose work explores the role of the individual in the world, with a particular focus on women. She examines everyday concepts such as home, family, and identity, while delving into the intimate and routine aspects of both women's and human lives. In her practice, she creates stop-motion video installations composed of projected videos onto paintings, merging the two mediums. Her paintings incorporate recycled textiles, patterns, cut-outs, and color, all of which are informed by her scientific background, enabling her to create illusions of space and time.
Amitay-Sadovsky studied for both her B.F.A. and M.F.A. at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2007-2009) and has been a lecturer at Shenkar College since 2009, where she was recognized as an outstanding lecturer in 2023. Before her art studies, she completed postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley (2000-2004), specializing in materials science, and earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Materials Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1994-2000). She also holds both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technion (1987-1994).
Amitay-Sadovsky has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at prestigious venues, including the Wilfrid Israel Museum of East Asian Art (2024), Gordon Gallery (2010, 2012, 2015, 2019), the Open Museum of Tefen (2014), the Anne and Arie Rosenblatt Prize Exhibition (2016), the Tel Aviv Artists' House, the Weizmann Institute of Science (2015), the Yanka Dada Museum (2012), and the University of California, Berkeley (2004). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Museum of Islamic Art (Time, 2020), the Israel Museum (Between Us, 2018), the Haifa Museum of Art (Anonymous X, 2017), the Petah Tikva Museum of Art (Video Stage, 2016), and the Haifa Museum of Art (Postmodernism and Utopia, 2016). Her works are part of private collections and museums both in Israel and internationally.
Amitay-Sadovsky has received fellowships including an artist residency and artistic/philanthropic collaboration grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2023, Nigeria), an artist residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2022), the Anne and Arie Rosenblatt Prize (2016), the Golden Foundation Art Fellowship (2016), a MacDowell Fellowship (2015), the Encouragement for Creation Prize from the Ministry of Culture (2012), the Robert Ralls Memorial Scholarship (2004-05), the National Science Foundation Fellowship (2000-2004), and the Materials Research Society Fellowship (1999). She has also been awarded fellowships from the Technion (1992-1994) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (1994-2000).
At MacDowell in 2015, Amitay-Sadovsky completed one short stop motion video, and initiated a long stop motion video that contains few scenes. She prepared six paintings to be used in the stop motion.
