List of the most popular artists from Israel, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries artists have been among the world's most important people, helping chronicle history and keep us entertained with one of the earliest forms of entertainment. Whether they're known for painting, sculpting, etching or drawing, the famous Israeli artists on this list have kept that tradition alive by creating renowned pieces of art that have been praised around the world. You can find useful information below about these notable Israeli artists, such as when they were born and where their place of birth was.
List artists include Hannah Yakin, Shimshon Holzman and more.
This list answers the questions, "Which famous artists are from Israel?" and "Who are the most well-known Israeli artists?"
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Marcel JancoComposition with Red Arrow Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. In the 1910s, he ...more
Reuven RubinThe Sea of Galilee, An Old Jew, Old Man Reuven Rubin was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.
Helmar Lerski Helmar Lerski was a photographer who laid some of the important foundations of modern photography. His works are on display in the USA, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. He focused mainly on ...more
Nehemiah Persoff Nehemiah Persoff is a Jerusalem-born American actor.
Paul Hartal Paul Hartal is a Canadian painter and poet, born in Szeged, Hungary. He has created the term "Lyrical Conceptualism" to characterize his style in both painting and poetry, and has ...more
Tal Rosner Tal Rosner is a London based Israeli filmmaker and video artist.
Amos Kenan Amos Kenan, also Amos Keinan, was an Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist.
Maurice Ascalon Maurice Ascalon was an Israeli designer and sculptor. He was, by some accounts, considered the father of the modern Israeli decorative arts movement. Maurice Ascalon was born as Moshe Klein in ...more
Ami James Ami James, is an Israeli-born tattoo artist. His father, an American, converted to Judaism three years prior to moving to Israel, where he joined the Israeli army and met James' mother. James ...more
Yael Bartana Yael Bartana is an Israeli artist working in film, installation and photography. Her work investigates "the imagery of identity and the politics of memory." She is perhaps best known ...more
David Avidan David Avidan was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright". He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry.
Hannah Yakin Hannah Yakin is an Israeli artist. She was born in Amsterdam in 1933 as Hannah van Hulst. During World War II, Hannah developed her artistic talents, experiencing "happy times in which ...more
Mordechai Geldman Mordechai Geldman is an Israeli artist, author, poet and psychologist.
Joshua Neustein Joshua Neustein is a contemporary Israeli visual artist. He lives and works in New York and Tel Aviv. He is known primarily for his environmental installations, Postminimalist torn paper works ...more
Hanoch Piven Hanoch Piven is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures.
Nachum GutmanTrade Fairs Center, Neve Tzedek, Arab Boy Playing the Flute Nachum Gutman was a Russian-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author.
Omer FastSpielberg's List Omer Fast is a contemporary video artist. He lives and works in Berlin.
Shimon Tzabar Shimon Tzabar was a member of the editorial board of Israel Imperial News. He described himself as a "Hebrew-speaking Palestinian". The son of poultry vendors, he was educated at a ...more
Buky Schwartz Buky Schwartz was an Israeli sculptor and video artist.
Isidor Ascheim Isidor Ascheim was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker.
Ziv KorenTel Aviv Bus Bombing, October 19 Ziv Koren is an Israeli photojournalist, popular for his work showing the cruelties of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has received many prizes, including the Simon Rokower Award, 1st Place for ...more
Joseph Kossonogi Joseph Kossonogi was a Hungarian-born Israeli painter.
Ephraim Moses Lilien Ephraim Moses Lilien was an art nouveau illustrator and printmaker particularly noted for his art on Jewish and Zionist themes. He is sometimes called the "first Zionist artist."
Gideon Gechtman Gideon Gechtman was an Israeli artist and sculptor. His art is most noted for holding a dialogue with death, often in relation with his own biography.
Achiam Achiam was a Franco-Israeli sculptor who worked around Paris after 1947. His work consists largely of direct carvings in stone and wood—very plain, pure forms, mostly figurative.
Ori Gersht Ori Gersht is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England.
Sharif Waked Sharif Waked is a Palestinian visual artist. Waked was born in Nazareth, to a Palestinian refugee family from the village of Mjedil. He lives and works in Haifa/Nazareth. Waked has exhibited at ...more
Anna TichoStill Life with Flowers (recto and verso), Olive Tree, Jericho Anna Ticho was a Jewish artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills.
Liselotte Grschebina Liselotte Grschebina was an Israeli photographer.
Malka Spigel Malka Spigel is an Israeli-born, London-based musician and artist. She was founding member of the Israeli-Belgian rock band Minimal Compact. She has also worked as a solo musician and as a ...more
David Rubinger David Rubinger is an Israeli photographer. His famous photo of three Israeli paratroopers after the recapture the Western Wall in the Six-Day War has become a defining image of the conflict. ...more
Michail Grobman Michail Grobman is an artist and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli architect Yasha Jacob Grobman.
Raffi Lavie Raffi Lavie was an Israeli artist, art educator and music/art critic. Lavie's work is a cross between graffiti and abstract expressionism.
Yigal Tumarkin Igael Tumarkin is an Israeli painter and sculptor.
Israel HershbergFratta Todina From Afar II, Fratta Todina From Afar, Aria Umbra Israel Hershberg is a figurative painter who lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel. Hershberg is the director and founder of the Jerusalem Studio School.
Gal Weinstein Gal Weinstein is an Israeli artist.
Menashe Kadishman Menashe Kadishman is an Israeli sculptor and painter. Kadishman artworks are presented in central locations in Israel, such as Habima Square and his paintings can be found in many different ...more
Joseph ZaritskyTowards the Light Joseph Zaritsky was one of Israel's greatest artists and one of the early promoters of modern art in the Land of Israel both during the period of the Yishuv [the body of Jewish residents in the ...more
Michael Gross Michael Gross was an Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual artist.
Micha Bar-Am Micha Bar-Am is a renowned Israeli journalistic photographer. His images cover every aspect of life in Israel in the past sixty years. Since 1968 he has been a correspondent with Magnum, the ...more
Boaz VaadiaUntitled Boaz Vaadia is an American/Israeli figurative art sculptor known for working with bluestone slate.
Yitzhak Danziger Yitzhak Danziger was an Israeli sculptor. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" group.
David Fisher David Fisher is an Italian-Israeli architect based in Florence. He is known for designing the Dynamic Tower, a rotating skyscraper proposed for construction in Dubai.
Uri Fink Uri Fink is an Israeli comic book artist and writer, and creator of the comics series Zbeng!. Fink is considered to be one of Israel's leading comic book artists.
Moi Ver Moshé Raviv-Vorobeichic was a photographer and painter.
Larry Abramson Larry Abramson is a South-African born Israeli artist.
