Nivi Alroy is a multidisciplinary, artist based in Israel. Alroy is focusing in drawing, sculpture, animation and installation. Her work has been exhibited in Israel and internationally in museums, galleries and site- specific installations. Alroy was the 2015-16 Hebrew University’s Safra campus of Mathematics and life Science visiting artist and, The Driftlab residency at The Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) and ISCP residency in New York. She is the recipient of two Israeli Lottery grants, the Ahuvi Most Promising Artist award, the Rabinovich grant, Arts Asylum small grant, a Tel Aviv special projects grant and the AICF fellowship. Alroy took part in various residency programs, among them, the Triangle workshop and the AIR gallery residency programs in New York and The Asylum workshop.

My practice begins with research often rooted in microbiology, ecology, and evolutionary theory which functions as both a conceptual and visual framework. I slowly construct speculative worlds that blur the boundaries between scientific fact and poetic fiction. These worlds are shaped by the climate crisis and unstable relationships between human bodies and landscapes. In projects such as Mariana Trench, I imagined speculative ecosystems emerging from the remnants of collapsed worlds.

Deep on the ocean floor there are volcanoes hidden that erupt all the time, but the encounter between the lava and the water creates new islands beneath the surface of the sea. Gravity gives objects weight and the moon directs the tides and affects the movement of blood in the body. The moment when the environment penetrates the body and the body is stretched towards its surroundings is a key of my artistic process. I describe this realm as an ‘environmental organ’, where the boundaries between human and nonhuman, interior and exterior, self and environment begin to dissolve.

Drawing is my primary and most instinctive language and the first site where ideas crystallize. It operates as a cartographic tool through which I map imagined ecosystems, hybrid organisms, and alternative worlds. Through dense, detailed works on paper, I map speculative environments, organisms, and architectural structures. These drawings frequently expand into three dimensional installations, wood reliefs and videos that create rich environments. I use layering, repetition, and scale shifts to produce a sense of elastic time.

Collaboration is central to my practice, since my goal is to lose and regain control over my invented worlds, expand their boundaries and explore them. I work closely with scientists, musicians, choreographers, writers and fellow artists allowing knowledge to circulate between disciplines and reshape the work as it evolves. These collaborations mirror and expand the systems that my projects, reinforcing the idea that no field or species exists in isolation.

I draw from fields such as ecology, history, and de-extinction science, as well as archives and myths and history, to construct narrative systems that probe how we measure and defy time. My work emerges from my biography and functions a tool to process extreme situations.

My work investigates states of transformation and instability. I am particularly drawn to extreme conditions, such as deep-sea environments or post-catastrophic landscapes, where life adapts in unexpected and often fragile ways. These sites function as metaphors for contemporary existence, reflecting anxieties, degradation, and the uncertain futures we are collectively shaping. I explore moments where past, present, and speculative futures overlap, inviting viewers to enter worlds where time is unstable, bodies are in constant motion, and landscapes continuously shift between growth, collapse, and regeneration.