Nelly Agassi, 

Chicago-based Nelly Agassi (born in Tel Aviv) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in performance, installation, video, and tactile media. Her process features obsessive, repetitive actions that function as a gripping point, a connection to reality and safe ground. Agassi's practice reflects a post-feminist shift, exploring femininity from a position of privilege and choice. Although her work references traditional domestic crafts like embroidery, sewing, and knitting, Agassi employs these materials in unconventional, non-functional ways to generate new meanings.

Agassi's site-specific works merge personal and architectural stories, revealing glimpses of spatial biography through her lived experience. Primarily using materials, body, and space, she creates intimate dialogues within public environments and their stories.

Holding MFAs from Chelsea College and BFAs from Central St. Martins, London, Agassi's work has been exhibited internationally at venues like Tate Modern, The Israel Museum, the Triennale di Milano and Zacheta in Warsaw. Notable projects include collaborations with Lady Dior and Sonia Rykiel. In Chicago, her work has been exhibited at The Graham Foundation, Chicago Cultural Center and The Arts Club of Chicago. Her work was recently acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago.

Recent and upcoming projects include her collaboration with Tod's, solo exhibitions at Foksal Gallery Warsaw (Fall 2023), The International Museum of Surgical Science (Fall 2024), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, and The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, among others.

Nelly is a co-founder of the nonprofit organization Fieldwork Collaborative Projects and a 2019 Graham Foundation Fellow.