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Nelly Agassi, Israeli video and performance artist was born in 1973. For her art she was awarded the Nathan Gottesdiener Prize for a Young Israeli Artist at 2003.
Agassi grew up in Tel Aviv as a daughter to the artist and art critic Meir Agassi and the photographer Ruth Agassi.
Agassi's work uses the body as a central tool for artistic expression. Her earlier performances test the boundaries of the body. In works such as the performance and installation "No Stepping Outside the Lines and No Touching the Floor" (1999), Agassi made use of red string which examined the relationship between the female body to the environment. Similar relationship also appears in works such as "Dress Wall" (2002) or "Borrowed Scenery" (2004), in which a dress made in a slow and Sisyphean Prose became an architectural element.
Her partner is photographer Assaf Evron.

Education

1994-1998 St. Martin's Central Academy of Art, London
1999-2000 Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv
2000-2001 M.F.A., Chelsey College of Art and Design, London

Awards and Prizes

1979 First Prize for Sculpture at Independence Day Exhibition, Beersheva
Second Prize, Maalit Tarschicha, International Prize for Sculpture.