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Yair Garbuz, Israeli, multimedia artist, author and filmmaker, born 1945

Yair Barbuz was born in Givatayim. In the 1960s, after serving in the Israel Defense Forces, he studied painting at the Avni Institute and took private lessons with Israeli artist Raffi Lavie. He was active in the +Ten group. In 1974-1986, he created video art using techniques similar to collage, and wrote texts in the same style. In 1983-2004, he was one of the authors of a newspaper column, Davar Akher. In 1993, he hosted a satiric television show, "Ein im me ledaber" (No one to talk to), and wrote scripts for a current events program, Tik Tikshoret.

Garbuz's early work, in the 1960s, combined photographic collage and scribbles to create expressive figurative portraits and grotesque nudes. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, he made ironic use of characters from Zionist propaganda and incorporated texts in his compositions. Later, he returned to more traditional painting and created collages referencing the history of Israeli art.

Education

Painting, Beit Zvi, Ramat Gan, with Rina Balhotovsky
Painting, Ramat Gan Labor Council, with Moshe Propes
1962-1967 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1967-1962 Painting, with Raffi Lavie, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Teaching

1962-1967 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv-Yafo
Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem
1973-1997 Midrasha LeOmanut, Beit Berl School of Arts
1997-2011 Director, Kalmania Art Teachers' Training College, Beit Berl

Awards And Prizes

1983 Scholarship for studies in the USA, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1989 Artist-in-Residence, The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1992 The Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1994 Sokolov Prize for Journalism
1999 The Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000 Prize, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2000 The Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2004 EMET Prize for Science, Art and Culture, Prime Minister's Office