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Ohad Meromi, an Israeli sculptor and multimedia artist, was born in 1967 in Kibutz Mizra. Upon graduation from high school, at age 17, Meromi registered at the "Kalisher" art school. After his release from the army he took art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, which he graduated in 1992. Ohad Meromi holds an MFA from Columbia University, in the USA, where he studied between the years 2002-2003.
In 1998 Meromi received the Gottesdiener Fund Young Israeli Artist Award. Subsequently, he displayed a structure he named "Villa 3" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1999), in which he conveyed his interest in installations and in architectural models and their cultural context.
In September 2001 Meromi presented the "Boy from South Tel Aviv," a sculpture which was part of an installation dealing with immigration and minorities. At the end of a structure resembling a border crossing, Meromi placed a magnified image of a naked black boy, in which he emphasized ethnographic characteristics and stereotypes. Following its exhibition in "Real Time, Art in Israel 1998-2008" (2008) at the Israel Museum, the statue was purchased and donated to the museum by a private collector.
Was listed as 89 out of "Top 100 Emerging Artists" of Flash Magazine Ohad Meromi lives and works in New York, USA.

Education

1981-85 Kalisher Art School, Tel-Aviv
1988-92 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, BFA
2002-04 Columbia University, New York City, USA, M.F.A.

Awards And Prizes

1998 Finalist, Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2002 Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture