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Gilad Keidar, Israeli, born in 1959

Gilad Keidar was born on Kibbutz Maabarot. In the late 1980s, he began to study art, first at Meimad School of Visual Art in Tel Aviv, and then at Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem. Keidar works in Tel Aviv.

Keidar explores traditional art themes such as landscape and portraiture. In his early work, he uses ready-made materials such as wooden boards and newspaper to explore the boundaries of art. In "End" (1992), for example, he recreates the rings of a tree trunk on a piece of plywood. In the second half of the 1990s, he began to devote more attention to drawing, often in large format. In 2003-2004, he did many paintings on old doors, which he covered with Jewish motifs.

Education

1988-1990 Studied drawing with Harold Rubin
1988-90 Meimad College of Visual Arts, Tel Aviv
1990-1992 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1993 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Eastern Philosophy and JewishThought,

Teaching

Drawing and painting classes, artist's studio

Awards And Prizes

1994 Havazelet Foundation Prize
1996 Prize for Logo for Hapoel Sports Team
1996 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Education and Culture
1998 Oscar Hendler Prize, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot