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Yonatan Hopp is an industrial designer who works predominantly in ceramics, with a hands-on research-through-making approach. His practice brings together methods and modes of work from industrial design, digital fabrication and craft to investigate new possibilities for production of objects. His research explores how the combination of these methodologies may generate original object languages, free of appropriated traditions, archetypical forms or paraphrased signs. A 2022 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the category of Design and Architecture, Yonatan has exhibited his work in venues such as the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), the Gardiner Museum (Toronto), the Museum of Art and Design (NYC) and the Yingge Museum (Taipei). Yonatan has degrees from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (MDes, 2013, Industrial Design) and the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, 2001, Industrial Design). From 2018-2023 he was an associate Professor at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.