Born in Israel, 1975.

Lives and works in Netanya.

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Solo Exhibitions

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2021    

Painter-Gatherer, The 2020 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative Realist Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Ruth Direktor.

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2019    

Standing Out, IAILA, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Sagi Refael.

2018    

Neimim, Municipal Art Gallery, Afula. Curator: Oz Zloof.

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2013    

Martyrs, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan. Curator: Maya Cohen Levy.

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2011    

No Room for Two on a Utility Pole, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Maya Cohen Levy.

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Group Exhibitions

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2022

Zotarbut, LGBTQ Art Festival at the Beit Ariela Public Library, Tel Aviv. Curator: Raz Shapira.

Outside the Box 4, Jaffa Street Gallery. Curator: Noga Or-Yam.

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2021

This Is-Realism, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Curator: Yaron Haramati.

Outside the Box 3, Jaffa Street Gallery. Curator: Ido Cohen.

Sub-Culture Festival, LGBTQ Center, Tel Aviv. Curators: Oz Zloof and Liav Mizrahi.

Queer Climate, Poli House, Tel Aviv. Curator: Erez Bialer.

Role Model, Sarona Gay Center, Tel Aviv. Curator: Erez Bialer.

2020

Salon HaCubia 2020 - Portrait, HaCubia Gallery, Jerusalem. Curators: Ella Cohen Vansover and Dan Orimian.

Home in Ein Hod, Ein Hod Gallery, Ein Hod. Curator: Yossi Waxman.

Pride By Your Side, an Online Exhibition, FMB Art Gallery, Rome. Curator: Francesco Maria Boni.

Outside the Box 2, Jaffa Street Gallery. Curators: Yael Rozin and Liav Mizrahi.

Confined: an Online Exhibition of Representational Art During Quarantine, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern Barcelona site.

Internally: Emotional Landscapes from Israel, USC Hillel Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Sagi Refael.

2019    

Gender Jeans, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv. Curators: Orna Levavi and Ora Ben Yoram.

Outside the Box - A Sales / Fundraising Exhibition, Abraham Hostel, Tel Aviv. Curators: Yael Rozin and Liav Mizrahi.

No Rainbows Without Rain, 1of135 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators: Assaf Hinden and Irit Hayon.

Outside the Box, Jaffa Street Gallery. Curators: Yael Rozin and Liav Mizrahi.

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2018    

Being Queer Is Like Being an Archaeologist: 70 Years of Gay History, LGBTQ Center, Tel Aviv.  

Poetry in Color, Beit HaSofer, Tel Aviv. Curator: Yossi Waxman.

Girl Power, Israeli Art in Los Angeles at Artsy website. Curator: Sagi Refael.

Boys With Toys, Israeli Art in Los Angeles at Artsy website. Curator: Sagi Refael.

Showcase, New Market Compound, Afula. Curator: Oz Zloof.

In This Together: Embracing Diversity, Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, CA. Curators: Sagi Refael and Brenda Williams.

70.70.70., Jewish Federation, Santa Barbara, CA. Curators: Sagi Refael and Lynn M. Holley (Catalogue).

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2017    

HaCubia Salon of Painting, HaCubia Gallery, Jerusalem. Curators: Ella Cohen Vansover and Dan Orimian.

Artists Creating Artists, Allenby Farms, Netzer Sereni. Curator: Galit Semel.

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2016    

The Artists Greenhouse, Fresh Paint 8 Art Fair, Tel Aviv. Curators: Yifat Gurion and Raz Shapira Fainburg.

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2015    

HaCubia Salon of Painting, HaCubia Gallery, Jerusalem. Curators: Ella Cohen Vansover and Dan Orimian.

Imagination 2015, Bank Hapoalim, Tel Aviv.

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2014    

Pause, Zadik Gallery, Jaffa. Curators: Yaira Yasmin and Zippi Menashe.

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2013    

The First Biennale for Elitist Art in Tel Aviv, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ziv Tidhar.

State of Tel Aviv?, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Neomi Shalev.

From the Museum's Collection - Portraiture, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan. Curator: Meir Aharonson.

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2012    

Expanding the Concept of 'Self-Portraiture', Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv.

Curator: Neomi Shalev.

Is It a Self-Portrait?, The Red House - Art Gallery, Tel Aviv.  Curators: Shlomo Har-Paz and Itzi Schwartz.

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2011    

Men Only, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators: Neomi Shalev and Ziv Tidhar.

Alfred & Co. 3, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators: Yael Ben Shalom, Efrat Gal and Yael Amit.

The Inner Space, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Maya Cohen Levy.

Dirty Dancing, Ehrlich Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Curator: Sarah Ehrlich.

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2010    

Two Dunams in the Heart, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Neomi Shalev.

Fresh Paint 3 Art Fair, Jaffa Port (Ehrlich Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv).

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Public Space Art

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2020    

Windows, a mural at the Beit Ariela Public Library and Cultural center, Tel Aviv.

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Awards

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2020

The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

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Education

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2007 - 2010    

Studied under the artist Maya Cohen Levy, Tel Aviv.

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Exhibition Texts

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Sagi Refael, Standing Out, IAILA, Los Angeles, 2019.

Oz Zloof, Neimim, Afula Municipal Art Gallery, Afula, 2018.

Maya Cohen Levy, Martyrs, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, 2013.

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Press

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2021

Hagit Peleg Rotem, Portfolio, As Time Goes By the Works Become More Personal, August 20, 2021.

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2020

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel, Realistic Portraits of Masculinity Win Major Art Prize for Lawyer-Turned-Artist, August 6, 2020.

Naama Riva, Haaretz, I Am Interested in Masculine Fluidity, August 3, 2020.

Artdaily, Yisrael Dror Hemed is the Winner of the Shiff Prize for Art 2020, August 2, 2020

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2018

Shaul Setter, Haaretz, Far Away from the Pride Parades (Excerpt), June 29, 2018.

WDG, Neimim, A New Visibility for LGBT Identity in Israeli Art, June 2, 2018.

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2014

Haaretz, Outside the Frame, April 23, 2014.

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2013

Nurit Asiag, City Mouse, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv or Jerusalem? Weekending at the Museums, April 3, 2013.

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2011

Guy Ehrlich, City Mouse, Pride Events This Week, March 2, 2011.

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Collections

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Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

Dubi Shiff Art Collection, Tel Aviv

Private collection, Tel Aviv, Israel

Private collection, Jerusalem, Israel

Private collection, Ramat Hasharon, Isarel

Private collection, Los Angeles, USA

Private collection, Berlin, Germany

Private collection, Stuttgart, Germany

Private collection, Zurich, Switzerland

Private collection, Milan, Italy

Private collection, Finland

Private collection, Melbourne, Australia

Private collection, South Africa

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