Boaz Parnas
Boaz Parnas (b. 1998, Jerusalem) is a London-based contemporary artist working across painting, sculpture, and installation. A graduate of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (BFA Hons) and The Glasgow School of Art’s exchange programme, he is a recipient of the Cooper Prize for academic excellence and the Sustainable Bezalel Award. Parnas’s work merges humour, material experimentation, and cultural symbolism to explore belonging and everyday resilience, reinterpreting familiar forms through tactile processes and instinctive composition.
I am a multidisciplinary artist, with my main focus on painting. I also work in sculpture, print, and digital media. My practice takes an installation-oriented form, where each element contributes to a larger picture. The work often exists between traditional mediums and questions the divide between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. I see art, together with humour, as a means of survival, a way to understand my surroundings, and a tool to reflect on current social and political conditions.
I try not to overthink or polish, allowing each work to retain the traces of its making.
My works explore the tension between the banal and the unique, finding beauty and humour in the everyday. I often reuse and recycle materials, giving new life to what is usually overlooked. Through this process, I look for forms of resilience and adaptation, where strength and fragility can coexist within the same gesture. In a contemporary context, my work reintroduces familiar symbols to question perception and draw attention to meaning hidden in the ordinary.
