Yigal Ozeri (born 1958) is an Israeli artist based in

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. He is known for large-scale cinematic portraits of young women in landscapes. His works are photo-realistic oil paintings. His son is Adam Ozeri, a professional soccer player.

Biography

Yigal Ozeri was born in Israel in 1958. He currently lives and works in New York City. In 1997, Ozeri collaborated with Israeli poet Ronny Someck to produce ''The Razor that Cut the Metaphoric Face of Poetry'' which included five etchings by Ozeri, and five ensuring poems by Someck. Ozeri's etchings, in order, were titled ''Pointed Tower, Tears of Buildings, Unbuilt Pagoda, Dirty Laundry, and Tears of Buildings II''. The book itself was produced by The Cabri Print Workshop, based out of Kibbutz Cabri in the Western Galilee. In 2014 he co-founded

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where he has a studio in the flagship of Jersey City.

Solo exhibitions

2010

*Lizzie Smoking, Galería Senda, Barcelona, Spain *Lizzie in the Snow, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA *Desire for Anima, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China *Olga in the Park, Galerie Brandt, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2011

*Territory, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark *Territory, Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel *Garden of the Gods, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY *Luce silenziosa (Silent light), Bologna, Italy

2012

*Territory, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY *Photorealism, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada *The Boathouse, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany *Territory, Karen Jenkins Johnson, San Francisco, CA *Territory, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2013

*Territory, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada *Triads, Galerie Brandt, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014

*Fiction of Distance, Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid, Spain *Photorealism in the Digital Age, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois

2017

*"The Storm". Zemack Gallery for Contemporary Art.

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

2018

*"Yigal Ozeri: A New York Story". Louis K. Meisel Gallery.

Collections

Yigal Ozeri's art are in permanent collections of the

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, the

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in San Antonio, the Jewish Museum of New York, The Israel Museum,

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...

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and other public institutions.

References

External links

Yigal OzeriYigal Ozeri in Duncan GalleryYigal Ozeri on Artsy
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