Cecillia Vitas

I was born in the US, raised in Argentina and Israel and gained my professional education in California.

With a strong multidisciplinary background in environmental and industrial design, my practice tends to blur the edges from seriousness to playfulness, craft to advanced technology and from unique objects to mini architecture.
My work is rooted in rigorous research and study, with inspirational solutions found in the natural surroundings as well as the human behavior observation, while always examining the spatial relationships between man, object and the environment.

Today, my studio is located in Northern Israel, and i am engaging in a diverse range of activities: designing outdoor elements, exhibitions, furniture and interior design, to creating site-specific installations and issuing furniture patent registration.

1998 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
B.S. (Bachelor of Science) with distinction, lndustrial/Environmental Design

1993 The NB Haifa School of Design, lsrael
Communication/Graphic Design Degree

1989 Avny Instuitute, Art and Painting

2018 Israel - 70 years of Craft and Design, Exhibition at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California, USA
2018 Galleria Rossana Orlandia, Milan, Italy
2017 Kazerne Gallery, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2017 On The Edge - Israeli Paper, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2011 From Page to Concept, ZeZeZe Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Portable Cloud, International Landscape Urbanism Biennale, Bat Yam, Israel
2010 Sandbox, International Landscape Urbanism, Biennale, Bat Yam, Israel
2005 Triennale CCOIF Award Finalist Exhibition, Milan, Italy
2003 10X10X14 exhibition, The NB Haifa School of Design Gallery, Haifa, Israel
1999 Vivace, Conference chair, Salon de Meuble, Paris
1999 Vivace, Conference chair, ICFF, New York
1999 Vivace, Conference chair, IDSA Conference, Chicago
1993 The Genia Schreiber Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel