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Zvika Kantor, Israeli, born 1955.

Zvika Kantor was born in Tel Aviv in 1955. He completed his military service in the navy. In the late 1970s he studied art at the Midrasha. He then went to study art in Florence and Hamburg, where he met his wife - the painter Inge Fries. He lives and works in Germany and Israel.

Kantor's main work is in the field of sculpture and installation. Many of them are made using an assemblage technique. At the end of the 1980s, he combined computer prints with other materials such as sugar cubes, ready-made plastic and many other materials.

Education

1978-80 Art Teachers' Training College, Ramat Hasharon
1980–81 Art Academy, Florence
1981-85 Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg

Teaching

1991–2011 Department of Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1992–93 Art Institute, Oranim College, Kiryat Tivon
1993–95 Kalisher School of Art and Technology, Tel Aviv
1994–2000 Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv
1998–2004 School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
2004–2006 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv

Awards And Prizes

1980 Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1980 Scholarship from the Italian government
1987 Altonaer Kunstpreis, Hamburg, Germany
1992 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1995 Minister of Culture Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2004 Creative Encouragement Award, Ministry of Culture and Sport