Born 1952 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1975-1978 - Studies at Art Teachers' Training College, Ramat-Hasharon. Since 1986 teaches painting in the same institute (now Beit-Berl College School of Art). Since 1982 works with Givon Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Lives and works in Tel-Aviv |
Prizes and awards |
| 1983 | The Beatrice S. Colliner Award for Young Artists, Israel Museum Jerusalem. |
| 1985 | Jacques O'hana Prize for Young Israeli Artists, The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. |
| 1990 | Minister of Culture and Education Prize for Painting and Sculpture. |
| 1993 | The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum Jerusalem. |
| 1995 | Isracard Prize, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. |
| 1996 | Creation Award, America-Israel, Cultural Foundation. |
| 1998 | The Encouragement of Creation Prize, Ministry of Culture and Education. |
| 2001-2002 | Bursary for studying drawing at The Prince of Wales Drawing Studio London |
| 2003 | Minister of Culture and Education Prize for Art and Design |
| 2006 | The Rappaport prize Tel-Aviv Museum of Art |
One-Person Shows |
| 1979 | Sara Gilat Gallery Jerusalem. |
| 1983 | Sara Gilat Gallery Jerusalem. |
| 1984 | "The Chinese Works" Noemi Givon Gallery for Contemporary Art Tel-Aviv. |
| 1987 | "ABA" (Father) Israel Museum Jerusalem. "The Chinese Works" Bograshov Gallery Tel-Aviv. |
| 1991 | "To Learn Writing from Trees" Givon Gallery Tel-Aviv (catalogue). |
| 1994 | Paintings after "Dubliners" by James Joyce Givon gallery Tel-Aviv |
| 1996 | Drawings Givon galler Tel-Aviv |
| 1998 | "Hurry Up... It's Time" Givon Gallery Tel-Aviv |
| 1999 | "A Season in Hell" Artists' Studios Gallery Tel-Aviv |
| 2001 | "Landscapes" Herzliya Museum of Art |
| 2003 | "Seven Good Years" Givon gallery Tel-Aviv |
| 2004 | "Milk and Wine" The gallery of the memorial site Kiryat-Tivon "The Invisible" The Senate gallery Ben-Gurion university |
| 2006 | "Eternal Summer" Givon gallery Tel-Aviv |
Selected Group Shows |
| 1978 | Artists' House Tel-Aviv. |
| 1982 | "Hakibbutz" Gallery Tel-Aviv. |
| 1984 | "Two Years - Qualities Accumulated" Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. |
| 1986 | "The Want of Matter as a Quality in Israeli Art" Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. |
| 1988 | "Fresh Paint" Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. "Nine Israeli Artists" Zurich, Hannover (Tel-Aviv Museum of Art). |
| 1990 | "Feminine Presence" Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. |
| 1991 | The 21st. Biennial of San-Paolo Brazil. |
| 1992 | "Routes of Wandering" Israel Museum Jerusalem. "Einblick-Ausblick" Young Artists from Israel in Leipzig, Bonn, Berlin. |
| 1993 | "Makom" Contemporary art from Israel in The Museum of Modern Art, . Vienna. |
| 1994 | "Memories of/for the Future" Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo. |
| 1995 | "Eight in November" Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. Rita and Arturo Schwarz Collection, Israel Museum Jerusalem. "Four times four" Givon Gallery Tel-Aviv. |
| 1996 | "Ktav" Flesh and Word in Israeli Art, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina. |
| 1998 | Recent Works - Givon Gallery Tel-Aviv. "After Rabin - New Art from Israel" Jewish Museum New-York. "Good Children, Bad Children" Israel Museum Jerusalem. |
| 2001 | "Love at first Sight" Israel Museum Jerusalem. |
| 2003 | Affirmative Action Tel-Aviv Museum of Art |
| 2004 | Prizes in Art and Design Haifa Museum of Art |
Publications |
| 1982 | "The Class is in a Deserted Boat - About The Chinese Works" KAV magazine no. 4/5. |
| 1990 | "While Beuys was Pregnant" Feminine Presence catalogue Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. |
| 1993 | "Time returns to the shell" - Shosh Kormosh catalogue Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan. |
| 1995 | "Discours Amoureux according to Smadar Eliasaf" Studio magazine no. 62. |
| 1996 | "Towards a Body and from it" - "The Medium in 20th Century Art" The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Or-Am Publishers. "Who is the third who walks always beside you?" - on Raffi Lavie and Moshe Gershuni in Givon Gallery, Studio magazine no. 76. |
| 1998 | "Unicorn, The Death of Doubling" - Gil Scahar's catalogue, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg. "Up the descending stairs" - Hamidrasha magazine no.1 |
| 1999 | "The Naked Model" - Hamidrasha magazine no. 2 "A Guide for the Bachelor" on Mordechai Geldman's "Sefer sh'al" Schebo Poetry magazine no. 2. |
| 2001 | "The Wound by Deganit" - Deganit Berest's catalogue Herzliya Museum of Art. "Michal, Come" - Michal Bachi's catalogue Artists' Studios Tel-Aviv". :"Milk and Wine" - Nurit David's catalogue Herzliya museum of Art. |
| 2002 | "The Holocaust and the art of drawing" Jewish Quarterly no. 184 |
| 2005 | Two autobiographical stories "Hamidrasha" magazine no. 8 |
| 2006 | "The good neighbor" a story, printed in a booklet accompanying the exhibition "Eternal Summer" at Givon gallery and in "Studio" magazine no. 165 |
works in public collections |
| | The Israel Museum Jerusalem |
| | Tel-Aviv Museum of Art |
| | Ein-Harod Museum |
| | The Jewish Museum New-York |