The following is a list of Israeli artists working in visual or plastic media.

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Matanya Abramson Matanya Abramson ( he, מתניה אברמסון; 1920–2004) was an Israeli sculptor whose sculptures have been exhibited worldwide as well as in Israel. Matanya was a versatile artist who worked in marble, stone, and wood, as well as with bron ...

Yaacov Agam Yaacov Agam ( he, יעקב אגם) (born 11 May 1928) is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist widely known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art. Biography Yaacov Gibstein (later Agam) was born in Israel, which, at that time ...

Mel Alexenberg Mel Alexenberg (born February 24, 1937) is an American-Israeli artist, art educator, and writer recognized for his pioneering work exploring the intersections of art, science, technology and digital culture. He created the first digital computer ...

* Dan Allon *

Oz Almog Oz Almog is an Israeli and Austrian artist, born on 15 April 1956, in Kfar Saba, Israel. Biography Oz Almog was born to a family of Russian/Ukrainian pioneers (Avrutzki) and Romanian/Russian immigrants (Abramovich). After studying classical paint ...

* Nir Alon * Ella Amitay Sadovsky * Aharon April * Amnon David Ar *

Boaz Arad Boaz Arad (16 March 1956 – 2 February 2018) was an Israelis, Israeli visual artist. He worked in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography, and video. Biography Arad was born in Tel Aviv in 1956. Arad studied art at the Avn ...

Mordecai Ardon Mordecai Ardon ( he, מרדכי ארדון, 13 July 1896 – 18 June 1992) was an Israeli painter. Biography Max Bronstein (later Mordecai Ardon) was born in Tuchów, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, now Poland). In 1933 he immigrated to Mandate ...

Einat Arif-Galanti Einat Arif-Galanti ( he, עינת עריף-גלנטי; born 1975) is an Israeli visual artist, mainly known for her photographic and video works. Biography Arif-Galanti was born in 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. Between the years 1995 and 1998 she s ...

* Avigdor Arikha *

David Ascalon David Ascalon ( he, דוד אשקלון; born March 8, 1945) is an Israeli contemporary sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physicall ...

* Maurice Ascalon *

Isidor Ascheim Isidor Ascheim ( he, איזידור אשהיים; 1891-1968) was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker. Biography Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin (present-day Poland) in 1891. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family and served dur ...

* Oreet Ashery * Maya Attoun * Mordechai Avniel *

Nehemia Azaz Nehemia Azaz ( he, נחמיה עזז), also Nehemiah, Henri or N H Azaz (9 October 1923 – 27 October 2008), was an Israeli sculptor, ceramicist and architectural artist, who spent half of his working life in the UK. Best known in Israel as found ...

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Samuel Bak Samuel Bak ( he, שמואל בק; born 12 August 1933) is a Lithuanian-American painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States. Biography Samuel Bak was born in Wilno ( ...

Adina Bar-On Adina Bar-On ( he, עדינה בר-און), born December 19, 1951, in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, Israel, is a pioneer performance artist, considered to be the first performance artist in Israel. Active for four decades, Bar-On's work continuously expl ...

Tuvia Beeri Tuvia Beeri ( he, טוביה בארי, August 29, 1929 Czechoslovakia – May 2022) was a Czech-Israeli painter. Beeri immigrated to Israel in 1948. He studied in 1957 at the Oranim Art Institute in Qiryat Tivon, with Marcel Janco and Yaako ...

* Edward Ben Avram *

Avner Ben-Gal Avner Ben-Gal (born 1966) 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 p ...

Yosl Bergner Yosl Bergner ( he, יוסל ברגנר‎; 13 October 1920 – 18 January 2017), also known as Josl, was an Israeli painter. He was born in Vienna, Austria, grew up in Warsaw, Poland, lived in Melbourne, Australia from 1937 until 1948, whe ...

Helen Berman Helen Berman ( he, הלן ברמן; born 6 April 1936) is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhi ...

Naftali Bezem Naftali Wahba Bezem ( he, נפתלי בזם; November 27, 1924 - October 2, 2018) was an Israeli painter, muralist and sculptor. Biography Naftali Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent under Nazi oppressio ...

Alexander Bogen Alexander Bogen ( he, אלכסנדר בוגן; born 24 January 1916 – 20 October 2010) was a Polish- Israeli visual artist, a decorated leader of partisans during World War II, a key player in 20th century Yiddish culture, and one of the tra ...

* Beverly Barkat

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* Rhea Carmi * Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi * Pinchas Cohen-Gan * Maya Cohen-Levy *

Keren Cytter Keren Cytter ( he, קרן ציטר; born 22 August 1977) is an Israeli visual artist and writer. Biography Cytter, born 22 August 1977, spent her childhood in Israel and went on to study visual arts at the Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Avi ...

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Yitzhak Danziger Yitzhak Danziger ( he, יצחק דנציגר; 26 June 1916 – 11 July 1977) was an Israeli sculptor. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" (New Horizons) group. Early life ...

* Ya'acov Dorchin

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Bracha L. Ettinger Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (born March 23, 1948) is an Israeli artist, painter and writer, visual analyst, psychoanalyst and philosopher, living and working in Paris and Tel Aviv. She is regarded as a major French feminist theorist and pr ...

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Belu-Simion Fainaru Belu-Simion Fainaru (born 1959) is an Israeli sculptor who was born in Bucharest, Romania and immigrated to Israel in 1973. He studied at the University of Haifa from 1980 to 1983 and earned an MA from the University of Chicago in 1984. He conti ...

Dov Feigin Dov Feigin ( he, דב פייגין; born 1907, died 2000) was an Israeli sculptor. Biography Dov Feigin was born in 1907 in Luhansk, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His father was a tailor. Feigin attended public Ukraine school as well ...

Yitzhak Frenkel Yitzhak Frenkel ( he, יצחק פרנקל; 1899–1981), also known as Alexandre Frenel, was an Israeli painter and sculptor, seen as the father of modern art in Israel. One of the most important Jewish artists of the l’École de Paris and it ...

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Pinchas Cohen Gan Pinchas Cohen Gan ( he, פנחס כהן גן) (born November 3, 1942) is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist. He was awarded the Sandberg Prize (1979), the Culture and Sport Ministry's prize for his life's work (2005), and the Israel Prize ...

* Ilan Garibi * Gideon Gechtman * Mordechai Geldman *

David Gerstein David Gerstein (born February 6, 1974) is an American comics author and editor as well as an animation historian. Gerstein has five books and countless comic book credits to his name. He has written many Disney comics stories, usually featuring ...

* Michail Grobman * Batia Grossbard *

Dor Guez Dor Guez ( he, דור גז) is an Israeli artist of Christian Palestinian and Tunisian Jewish origin, founder of The Christian Palestinian Archive.

Nachum Gutman Nachum Gutman (as he himself signed; alternate romanisation: Nahum Gutman; he, נחום גוטמן: October 5, 1898 – November 28, 1980) was a Moldovan-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author. Biography Nachum Gutman was born in Tele ...

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* Shlomit Haber-Schaim * Paul Hartal * Emanuel Hatzofe *

Michal Heiman Michal Heiman (Hebrew language, Hebrew: מיכל היימן, born in Tel Aviv) is a Tel Aviv-Yafo based artist, curator, theoretician and activist. She is the founder of the ''Photographer Unknown Archive'' (1984) and creator of the Michal Heiman ...

Itshak Holtz Itshak Jack Holtz ( he, יצחק הולץ; also known as Itzhak Holtz and Issac Holtz; 1925-2018)Dovid Margolin, "Gazing Toward Yerushalayim: The life and art of Itshak Holtz," ''Hamodia, Inyan'', August 22, 2011, pp. 30-35. was a Polish-born and ...

* Shimshon Holzman

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* Eli Ilan

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Marcel Janco Marcel Janco (, ; common rendition of the Romanian name Marcel Hermann Iancu ; 24 May 1895 – 21 April 1984) was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Const ...

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* Menashe Kadishman * Leo Kahn *

Dani Karavan Daniel "Dani" Karavan ( he, דני קרוון, 7 December 1930 – 29 May 2021) was an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment. Biography Daniel (Dani) Karavan was born in Tel A ...

* Shemuel Katz * Joseph Kossonogi *

Elyasaf Kowner Elyasaf Kowner ( he, אליסף קובנר) (born 1970) is an Israeli interdisciplinary artist who explores issues of abuse, Grief, loss, control and love for people. He has made over 30 poetic short films that were screened in festivals and mus ...

* Heddy Kun

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Jeremy Langford Jeremy Langford (born December 6, 1991) is an American football running back who is a free agent. He played college football at Michigan State, and was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL Draft. Early years Langfor ...

Raffi Lavie Raffi Lavie educator and music/art critic. Lavie's work is a cross between graffiti and abstract expressionism. Biography Rafael (Raffi) Lavi was born in Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine. He began teaching at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts 1966. ...

* Maya Cohen Levy * Pamela Levy

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* Zvi Malnovitzer * Emmanuel Mané-Katz * Leonid Mezheritski * Grégoire Michonze * Nachume Miller * Motti Mizrachi * David Mezach

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Adi Nes Adi Nes ( he, עדי נס; born 1966) is an Israeli photographer. Education * 1989-1992 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, photography Life and career Adi Nes was born in Kiryat Gat. His parents are Jewish immigrants from Iran. He ...

Joshua Neustein Joshua Neustein (born 1940) is a contemporary visual artist who lives and works in New York City. He is known for his Conceptual Art, environmental installations, Land Art, Postminimalist torn paper works, epistemic abstraction, deconstructed c ...

Lea Nikel Lea Nikel ( he, לאה ניקל; born 1918, died 2005) was an Israeli abstract artist. Biography Lea Nikel (Lea Nikelsberg) was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine, in 1918. Her family immigrated to British-administered Palestine in 1920. She had one sis ...

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Avraham Ofek Avraham Ofek ( he, אברהם אופק; August 14, 1935 – January 13, 1990) was a multidisciplinary Israeli artist. Biography Avraham Ofek was born in Burgas, Bulgaria. Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, ...

Aliza Olmert Aliza Olmert ( he, עליזה אולמרט; née Richter; born 1946) is an Israeli artist, photographer, author and social worker. She is married to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Biography Aliza Olmert was born in a displaced ...

* Ezra Orion * Chana Orloff * Batya Ouziel

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* Felice Pazner Malkin * Abel Pann *

Meir Pichhadze Meir Pichhadze ( he, מאיר פיצ'חדזה; August 16, 1955 in Kutaisi, Georgia – February 4, 2010 in Tel Aviv, Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְ� ...

* Jacob Pins *

Sam Philipe Sam Philipe is an Israeli sculptor. He is known for his sculptures of biblical and New Testament figures. Biography Shlomo (Sam) Philipe ( he, סם פיליפ) was born in Jerusalem to an old Jerusalem family. After serving in the Israel Defense ...

Raphael Perez Raphael "Rafi" Perez ( he, רפי פרץ; born 1965) is an Israeli artist known for his homoerotic gay art and colorful urban landscapes painted in a naïve style. Early life Perez was born in Jerusalem. Growing up, he was exposed to the works ...

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Ze'ev Raban Ze’ev Raban (22 September 1890 – 19 January 1970), born Wolf Rawicki (Ravitzki), was a leading painter, decorative artist, and industrial designer of the Bezalel school style, and was one of the founders of the Israeli art world. Biography ...

Ilana Raviv Ilana Raviv-Oppenheim (born 1945) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work spans a variety of media including painting, drawing, etching, tapestry, and ceramic sculpture. Biography She was born in Tel Aviv in 1945 to Itzhak and Fanya Oppenheim. ...

Nissan Rilov Nissan Rilov (1922 - 2007) was an Israeli artist. Prior to undertaking his artistic career, he served in paramilitary and military groups such as the Special Night Squads (SNS), the Haganah, and the British Army during World War II. Rilov became ...

Hillel Roman Hillel Roman (הלל רומן) is a visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. Biography Roman was born on April 16, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. At age 24 he joined Hamidrasha Art School, Beit Berl College, Israel. In 2004 Roman ...

* Leo Roth * Michal Rovner *

Reuven Rubin Reuven Rubin ( he, ראובן רובין; November 13, 1893 – October 13, 1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Biography Rubin Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galaţi to a poor Rom ...

Zahara Rubin Zahara Rubin ( he, זהרה רובין) (born 1932) is an Israeli sculptor, painter and artist. Early life and education In 1950 Rubin graduated the Shomryia High-School in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek. She is a member of Kibbutz Bet Zera, in the ...

Joram Rozov Joram Rozov ( he, יורם רוזוב; born 1938) is an Israeli artist. He was a professor of art at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Biography Joram Rozov was born in Hadera, Israel. In 1958-1962, he studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and D ...

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Moshe Safdie Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible des ...

* Naomi Safran-Hon *

Zahara Schatz Zahara Schatz ( he, זהרה ש"ץ; 1916–1999), was an Israeli artist and designer. She was the daughter of Boris Schatz, who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She was best known for the six-branched Temple menorah ...

Buky Schwartz Buky Schwartz (pronounced BOO-kie) ( he, בוקי שוורץ; June 16, 1932 – September 1, 2009, Tel Aviv) was an Israeli sculptor and video artist. Biography Moshe (Buky) Schwartz was born in Jerusalem. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture ...

Shlomo Selinger Shelomo Selinger (born May 31, 1928) is a sculptor and artist living and working in Paris since 1956. Biography Selinger was born to a Jewish family in the small Polish town of Szczakowa (today part of Jaworzno) near Oświęcim (Auschwitz'' Le P ...

* Hagit Shahal * Gabriel and Maxim Shamir *

Shaul Shats Shaul Shats (born 1944) (variant names Shaul Shatz, Saul Shatz) is an Israeli painter, printmaker and illustrator, born in 1944 in Kibbutz Sarid, Israel. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1965–66), the Rietve ...

* Avner Sher * Ahuva Sherman *

Siona Shimshi Siona Shimshi (also "Ziona"; he, ציונה שמשי; July 14, 1939 – October 16, 2018) was an Israeli painter, sculptress, ceramist, and textile designer. Early life Shimshi was born in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka (Kuklanski) and Avraham Shimshi, ...

* Merav Shinn Ben-Alon *

Shlomo Shriki Shlomo Shriki, born in Morocco (1949-2022), was an Israeli painter and artist, grew up and was educated in Kibbutz Yifat. Shriki worked and exhibited in various museums, mainly in the Netherlands and the U.S., he is a pioneer and developer of ''su ...

Jacob Steinhardt Jacob Steinhardt (1887–1968) ( he, יעקב שטיינהרדט) was a German-born Israeli painter and woodcut artist. Biography Jacob Steinhardt was born in Zerkow, German Empire (now Żerków, Poland). He attended the School of Art in Berli ...

* Zamy Steynovitz *

Maayan Strauss Maayan Strauss ( he, מעין שטראוס, born in 1982 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli artist. Strauss studied architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. She has exhibited in several galleries and art projects, such as the ...

Yehezkel Streichman Yehezkel Streichman ( he, יחזקאל שטרייכמן, 1906 – January 12, 1993) was an Israeli painter. He is considered a pioneer of Israeli modernist painting. Among the awards that he won were the Dizengoff Prize and the Israel Prize. Bi ...

* Sucho (Gedalia Suchowolski) * Sari Srulovitch

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* Roni Taharlev *

Tal R Tal Rosenzweig (born 1967), known as Tal R, is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Life and work Tal R was born in Israel and moved to Denmark with his family when he was one year old. He studied at Billedskolen, Copenhagen, from 1986 to 1988 and ...

* Ruben Talberg *

Itzchak Tarkay Itzchak Tarkay ( he, יצחק טרקאי; 1935 – June 3, 2012) was an Israeli painter and graphic artist. He is used trade dress to protect his style from being emulated via ''Romm Art Creations Ltd. v. Simcha International, Inc.''. A case that ...

David Tartakover David Tartakover (דוד טרטקובר) (born 1944) is an Israeli graphic designer, political activist, artist and design educator. Biography David Tartakover was born in Haifa in 1944. His father, Dr. Jacob Tartakover, was a lawyer. His mot ...

* Paul Harrison Taylor *

Anna Ticho Anna Ticho (; 27 October 1894 – 1 March 1980) was an Israeli artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills. Beit Ticho, the house in Jerusalem that she shared with her husband is now a branch of the Israel Museum and a caf� ...

* Igael (or Yigal) Tumarkin

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* Shraga Weil

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* Yuval Yairi *

Abraham Yakin Abraham Yakin ( he, אברהם יכין ; 31 July 1924 – 10 May 2020) was an Israeli artist. Background Abraham Yakin was born in Jerusalem. During the Second World War, he joined the Royal Navy and served three years in the Mediterranean Fl ...

* Hannah Yakin *

Yitzhak Yamin Yitzhak Yamin ( he, יצחק ימין; born 1938 – 21 March 2020) was an Iraqi-born Israeli painter and sculptor. Biography Yitzhak Yamin was born in Iraq. In 1951, he immigrated to Israel and lived with his parents and eleven brothers and si ...

* Daniela Yaniv-Richter * Yoop de Yons * Josephinne Yaroshevich *

Addam Yekutieli Addam Yekutieli a.k.a. ''Know Hope'' (1986) is an American-born Israeli artist who creates Social practice (art), social practice projects, immersive installations and Public art, public artworks. He became known for his work in the streets of T ...

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* Idan Zareski * Moshe Ziffer * Julia Zisman {{Asian artists Jewish painters Israeli painters

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