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Asaf Ben Zvi was born in 1953 in Kfar Yehezkel. He did his army service in a commando unit and fought in the Yom Kippur War. After his discharge from the army he settled in Jerusalem and became interested in bird-watching. In 1981 he began to study architecture at Bezalel, but transferred to the art department. During the period of his studies, he worked primarily in sculpture, but after a period of study in New York, he began to paint as well. From the mid-1980s he made use of simple figures, so abstracted in their form that they became symbolic figures. Some of these figures were connected to biographical baggage, while others were based on trivial events. Many of his works are based on poetic texts that show his interest in esthetics and in the relationship between the painter and society.

Education

1981-1985 Bezalel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem, BFA
1985 Pratt Institute, New York.City, USA

Teaching

1933 Bezalel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Since 1989 Kalisher School, Tel Aviv.

Awards And Prizes

1981-82, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Grant
1982-83, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Grant
1987 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1989 Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1991 Rafael and Hadassah Klatchkin Prize, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1992 Prize for Plastic Arts, Ministry of Education
1994 Bank Discount Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1997 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2011 Prize for an Established Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2020-2019, The Jacob Pins Award for an Israeli Printmaking Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem