Know Hope

In the presence of Know Hope’s public work, you become a part of the art itself. His use of imagery and symbolism in his pieces causes an interference with its context and the dialogue that is created by this interaction is the art.

Hope was born in California and moved to Tel Aviv when he was ten. His parents are artists, and while he never formally studied art he was always making and creating art in different capacities and methods. In 2004, he began putting his art in public places and it changed his cognitive perception of the creative process in terms of what kind of dialogue could be created through art.

Know Hope’s work is based on translating his own observations of human interactions that he sees i...