I am a multidisciplinary artist, with painting and drawing at the centre of my practice. As a child, when other kids went out to play football, I would spend hours drawing. I wanted to see what happened when I pushed a colour further, made a detail disproportionately large, or looked at a familiar object from an angle I had never considered.

 

Drawing became a way to pay attention to my surroundings and to communicate what I saw in them.I still find myself drawn to things people have stopped looking at. An old television, a broken phone or a discarded record can tell us something about the world that produced it and the people who once used it. That curiosity runs through my paintings, from imagined figures and machines to familiar objects that take on a different life on the canvas.

 

Berlin and Old Jaffa

 

After my military service, I received a grant that allowed me to spend a year working in an independent studio in Schöneweide, Berlin. I learned by working alongside other artists, seeing how they developed their work and taking part in group exhibitions. Among the first people to buy my work was Rolf Eden, a familiar figure in Berlin’s nightlife.

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Selling work at that stage gave me a sense that the practice I was building could sustain itself.Back in Israel, I studied textile design at Shenkar and went on to complete my studies in art and art education at Kalisher in 2013. For several years, my studio in Old Jaffa was the centre of my artistic life. I rented a space in an old Arab house and made it into a home and studio, with a gallery facing the street. I sold paintings directly from that space and put the proceeds into producing group exhibitions.

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In those years I would paint, install a show and play a DJ set, sometimes all in the course of the same day. The studio gave me a place to bring those parts of my life together.

 

Design, teaching and working with others

 

I entered graphic design at a young age, learning FreeHand and Photoshop in design offices. From 2005 to 2010, I worked in print production and took on independent commissions for restaurants and other businesses.

I also spent several years helping run my family’s business, taking responsibility for day to day operations, publicity, visual identity and the design of the space.

 

Those experiences taught me how to carry an idea through to production and how to make a place feel coherent to the people who walk into it.After my studies, I spent two years making and exhibiting work in Los Angeles. I also worked on retail design in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and took a course in character design while in the United States.

After returning to Israel in late 2017, I began teaching art and character design in schools and workshops for children and adults. I enjoy watching a student take a small decision about proportion, posture or colour and discover that it can change the entire character.

I began tattooing in 2019 after training with an independent artist. In late 2022, I opened a gallery and tattoo studio on HaKovshim Street in Tel Aviv. My curatorial work has continued alongside my studio practice. In 2025, Shai Pardo and I co-curated an exhibition at the Bat Yam Art Institute in memory of Shani Louk.

 

It brought together works by Shani and other artists and made space for the music and visual culture that were part of her life.

 

The artist’s books and the work ahead

 

My artist’s books are the most sustained body of work I have made. I began making them during my military service, and they have grown into a series of 25 books that I think of as visual journals.

 

A book lets me work with sequence and duration. An image can return several pages later and mean something different because of what the reader has seen in between. That experience of turning a page, remembering an earlier image and discovering a new connection is one of the reasons I keep coming back to the form.I have worked with electronic sound since the 1990s, and DJing, live performance, video art and live visuals have become part of how I think about images in time.

 

After 7 October 2023, my connection to psychedelic culture and electronic music took on a new urgency. Through teaching, workshops and exhibitions, I became more attentive to what those forms can hold for younger artists and to how their work can reach a wider public. I would like to develop that work with cultural institutions through exhibitions, performances and programmes for emerging artists.My life also takes me regularly to Madrid, where my son lives. In the studio, I’m now working with AI as another way to develop visual ideas, including images I had imagined years ago and can now explore in greater detail.

I wanted this website to give the earlier work a substantial place. The drawings, paintings and handmade books show how I have worked with colour, material and imagination over time.

Those are the things I carry with me into every new medium.