Yehudit Sasportas (Ashod, Israel 1969)

The artist graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1999. In 2007, she represented Israel at the Venice Biennale. She creates, as she says, "mental landscapes". She usually depicts nature in black and white tones, drawing on a wide variety of sources of landscape depiction: from media images to German Romanticism and East Asian scroll paintings on silk.

Her works have been shown in important exhibitions such as the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Kunsthalle Trier, Marta Herford, Buchheim Museum, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Leonhardi Museum Dresden, Berkley Museum of Art San Francisco and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Yehudit Sasportas has been honoured with numerous prizes, including the "Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for Excellency in the Arts" (2009), the "Israeli Art Prize" (1999) and the "Robert Steinmann Prize for Sculpture" (1993).

The artist, who has been a lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem since 1993, lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv.

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