Shai Yehezkelli
Shai Yehezkelli (b. 1979, Jerusalem; lives and works between Tel Aviv and Cologne, Germany) holds an MFA and a BFA, received with the highest Honor ('Summa Cum Laude') from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Yehezkelli's work has featured in solo exhibitions including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Haifa Museum of Art; Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv; and Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami. He has also participated in group exhibitions, including at the Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg; the Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Denmark. He was awarded The Rappaport Prize for a Young Artist given by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Bank Leumi Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievements.
“ Yehezkelli’s work features contemporary-Israeli and Mediterranean-painting which swings between the abstract and the figurative, the comic and the tragic, the political and the theological. He unfolds a rich and intricate set of symbols based on religious elements and signifiers of modern painting. Medieval Christian visual images and shofar representations hovering over al-Aksa mosque blend in the paintings, forming a backdrop for the portrait of the artist, grotesquely portrayed as weak and neurotic.” Text by Suzanne Landau, former Chief Curator of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and currently the Museum's Director. Photos courtesy of Shai Yehezkelli studio.
