Shay Arick is an Israeli visual artist based in Brooklyn. He has received numerous awards, including the Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Arts Award, the Eileen Cooper Award for Creativity, and the America-Israel Award for Excellence in Sculpture. Arick has participated in residencies and fellowships such as the International Sculpture Center, MASS MoCA, Wassaic Project, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. His work has been exhibited in venues including Haifa Museum of Art, Y Gallery (New York), Watermill Center, San Francisco International Arts Festival, Ground For Sculpture (New Jersey), and the Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Arick holds an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received an award for excellence, and a BFA from Bezalel Academy, Israel, graduating with honors.