Nir Hod - Artist Info

About Nir Hod

  • Biography from Tiroche Auction House

    Nir Hod is an Israeli artist born in Tel Aviv. He creates eccentric and provocative art that explores gender and kitsch matters. Hod's work emerged in the 1990s, challenging the conservative Israeli art scene with beauty, glamor, and fluid gendered identities. He draws inspiration from art history, fashion, music, cinema, and kitsch, with influences from artists like Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Koons. Hod's artworks often depict smooth-skinned characters resembling wax dolls, exploring themes of life, death, beauty, and love. He frequently represents himself in various roles, rich with borderline sexual identities. Hod has exhibited internationally and is recognized as one of the most successful Israeli artists.
  • Biography from Montefiore Auction House

    Nir Hod, painter and sculptor, was born in Tel Aviv in 1970. From 1989-93 Nir Hod studied in Bezalel, Jerusalem then worked on advanced studies at Cooper Union Academy of Art in New York as a part of an exchange-student program in 1991.

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