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Motti Mizrachi, an Israeli multi-disciplinary artist, works in photography, sculpture, video, and multimedia, was born in 1946 in Tel Aviv. Between the years 1969-1973 he studied at the Bezalel Academy.
Mizrachi's legs are disabled as a result of childhood polio and he uses crutches to walk. This disability is often expressed in his works. Mizrachi uses humor and self-irony in his works, with an emphasis on the human body, its flaws and pleasures, as well as examining the oppression and control of the strong over the weak, both socially and politically.
In his work "Via Dolorosa" (1973), Mizrahi created a photographed documentary of him walking along the Via Dolorosa, carrying his enlarged self-portrait on his back.
Towards the end of the 90s had surgery to improve his health, but the results did not last and affected his ability to create intensively.
Motti Mizrachi creates in a studio in the industrial area in Azur and lives in Tel Aviv.

Education

1969-74 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem

Teaching

1980-87 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem
Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon
"Camera Obscura," Tel Aviv

Awards And Prizes

1976 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1987 The Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1987 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1987 Prize for Creativity, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1997 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Education and Culture
2000 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Sharett Fund Scholarship
2002 Prize, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport