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Elad Kofler (Kopler), Israeli painter and sculptor, born Ramat Gan, 1974. Elad Kofler was raised by his grandmother in a small shack in Ramat Gan. He studied architecture for four years but chose to become an artist instead. His large format post-apocalyptic paintings feature fragments of buildings, machines and industrial plants in nightmarish, claustrophic compositions. His sculptures include "Fur Cart," a fur vehicle that is half-toy, half instrument of war.

Education

2000-04 Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, School of Art, Midrasha., B.Ed.
2004-06 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, MFA. with distinction, under Nahum Tevet

Teaching

Sapir Academic College, Sderot
Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv

Awards And Prizes

2003 Scholarship, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College
2003-04, Award for excellence, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2005 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Prize for Young Artists
2006 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Prize for Young Artists
2007 Prize for a Young Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2007 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Prize for Young Artists
2011 Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv