About Sharon Blu

Biography

Sharon Blu is a Tel Aviv–based visual artist whose practice spans large-scale painting and clay sculpture. Born in Haifa, she has — since 2020 — developed an intuitive, material-driven approach that combines painting, drawing, and three-dimensional elements. Working primarily on large canvases, she builds her surfaces from a wide range of materials including acrylic, oil, charcoal, watercolor, markers, and recycled organic components, layering them until the work speaks back.

Her work centers on the human body as an unstable, evolving site, positioned between the personal and the social. The figure is often fragmented, reconstructed, or mechanically echoed — at times a woman rendered almost as a machine — creating a tension between vulnerability and structure, softness and control. Through this layered methodology, her paintings explore the relationship between material, memory, and the human figure.

Blu came to art along an unconventional path. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.A) from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, and a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Fordham University in New York; she served as a First Lieutenant in the Israeli Air Force and founded the Red Velvet bakery in Tel Aviv. That background informs a rigorous conceptual framework and a sustained engagement with structure, ethics, and human systems.

Artistic Statement

My works are born out of silence — out of the moment a figure begins to breathe on the canvas, as if unsure whether it is being born or erased. I paint in layers of color, sometimes transparent, sometimes thick and breaking, until something forms that speaks back to me. There is no plan, only listening. Color carries weight, like an old memory left on the skin.

Among my figures there is tenderness, but also struggle — they search for a line to hold them, a line that says “I exist,” even as they almost dissolve into the background. I am drawn to the moment when form is still soft, before it hardens into something final. In sculpture, I carry the painting into another dimension: the white, fragile body is an echo of a figure I painted before, holding the same search for the border between presence and disappearance, between material and breath.

Exhibitions & Representation

Sharon Blu has exhibited in Israel and internationally, with solo and group exhibitions across galleries in Israel and the United States since 2020. Her work is represented by Mika Art Gallery in Tel Aviv and Danielle Peleg Art Gallery in Michigan.

Selected Exhibitions

• 2024“Transition Zone,” group exhibition for uterine-cancer awareness
• 2023“Between the Sacred and the Profane,” group exhibition, Ben-Ami Gallery
• 2023“For Variety,” group exhibition
• 2022Red Dot Miami art fair, Miami Art Week
• 2022Group exhibition, ADC Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati
• 2022Solo exhibition, Danielle Peleg Art Gallery, Michigan
• 2021Group exhibition, Soma Gallery, Jaffa
• 2020Solo exhibition, 187 Contemporary Art Gallery
• 2020“Smiling Fences,” group exhibition, Jaffa