Art and designאדם יקותיאלי

Addam Yekutieli

Addam Yekutieli is an Israeli artist born in California who works in public art and installations under the name Know Hope.

born 1986Street art as Know HopeThe Truth and Method projectThe Taking Sides project

Occupation: painter

Addam Yekutieli was born in 1986 in California

Addam Yekutieli was born in 1986 in California. He grew up in a home with roots in Japan, the USA and Israel, and both of his parents are artists. He moved to Israel with his parents as a child.

He never studied art at a college. As a teenager he was drawn to punk culture and skateboarding, which shaped the look of his early work.

In 2005 his work began to appear on the streets of Tel Aviv, often showing a long-limbed figure and the phrase Know Hope. He used acrylic paint, markers, paper and cardboard, and many pieces were not meant to last. Later he showed work in galleries and museums in Israel and abroad, including Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv and Lazarides Rathbone in London.

From 2014 he worked on long-term projects. In Truth and Method he tattooed texts from his street pieces on volunteers, and in Taking Sides he drew white lines in streets with opposing sentences on each side. In 2025 the documentary Know Hope, directed by Omer Shamir, was made about him and won an award at the DocAviv festival.