Menashe Kadishman was an Israeli sculptor and painter.
Avner Ben-Gal is an international painter and artist, working mainly from Tel Aviv, Israel. His works depict various intense, often neglected locations such as agricultural fields, prisons and smoky interiors, whereby theatrical scenes play out. The scenes present ghostly, rough hewn and often low life figures that are bare and hardened. The parallel between Ben-Gal's raw way of painting and his tough, ambiguous subject matter allows a unique intensity within his paintings.
David (Dudu) Gerstein is an Israeli painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. He began as a figurative painter and was recipient of the Israel Museum Prize for illustration. At the end of the 1970s he wished to expand the limits of two-dimensional painting, into painting in three-dimensions. He began cutting out the main subjects of each painting and to cancel the background, creating a unique and iconic cutout images, free standing in space, without the standard and traditional square frame.
Lynn Russell Chadwick, was an English sculptor and artist. Much of his work is semi-abstract sculpture in bronze or steel. His work is in the collections of MoMA in New York, the Tate in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Benni Efrat is an Israeli painter, sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker who was born in Beirut, Lebanon.
Mordechai (Motti) Mizrachi is an Israeli multimedia artist who creates politically engaged conceptual works that combine sculpture, video, photography, public art and performance. Dough, Via Dolorosa (1973) and Healing (1980) marked the emergence of avant-garde Israeli performance and video art. Since the 1980s, he has created numerous site specific public sculptures.
Sigalit Landau is an Israeli sculptor, video and installation artist.
Amnon Barzel is an internationally known art curator and author.
Ori Gersht is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England.
Nahum Tevet is one of the leading Israeli artists whose work was among the earliest to respond to the minimalist canon by introducing into his installations everyday domestic objects, metaphors and images like in: Corner (1973-4) and Arrangements of Six Units.
Yohanan Simon was a German-born Israeli painter.
Visual arts in Israel refers to plastic art created first in the region of Palestine, from the later part of the 19th century until 1948 and subsequently in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories by Israeli artists. Visual art in Israel encompasses a wide spectrum of techniques, styles and themes reflecting a dialogue with Jewish art throughout the ages and attempts to formulate a national identity.
Michal Rovner, also known as Michal Rovner Hammer, is an Israeli contemporary artist, she is known for her video, photo, and cinema artwork. Rovner is internationally known with exhibitions at major museums, including the Louvre (2011) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2002).
Israel Zafrir was an Israeli photographer. Born to Solomon Glaser and Regine (Rifke) Baumöhl. Zafrir was one of the founding fathers of modern documentary photography in Israel.
Pavel Wolberg is a visual artist, photographer, and photojournalist. He was born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union. He lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tomer Ganihar, is an Israeli photographer and writer, born in 1970. He has had solo photography shows in museums and galleries around the world. His photography is all shot without artificial lighting and using color film. He is a published author of a book of selected essays, a book of short stories and a novel. He has also written and directed the film "Prophet on the Run".
David Adika is an Israeli photographer and educator.
Nira Pereg is an Israeli artist.
Michael Sgan-Cohen was an Israeli artist, art historian, curator and critic. His oeuvre touches different realms of the Israeli experience and the Hebrew language, displaying a strong connection to the Jewish Scriptures. His works were nurtured by his extensive knowledge of Art history, philosophy, Biblical Texts, Jewish thought and Mysticism, which in turn illuminated all these pursuits. His engagement with Judaism and the Bible as a secular scholar and his vast knowledge of modern and contemporary art contributed to the development of a distinctive approach which combined Jewish and Israeli symbols and images to create a multilayered and contemporary artistic language.
Tsibi Geva is an Israeli educator and music/art critic. Geva's work is a cross between graffiti, sculpture and abstract expressionism.
