Dan Reisner

Dan Reisner was born in 1964 in Haifa

Dan Reisner was born in Haifa in 1964. He grew up in the Neve Magen neighborhood of Ramat HaSharon.

In 1983 he volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade and served as a combat medic, spending a long period in Lebanon. His service left him with post-traumatic stress disorder. After his discharge he spent half a year in New York, where he also worked at the gallery of Leo Castelli.

He studied at HaMidrasha Faculty of Arts in Ramat HaSharon from 1987 to 1991 and earned a teaching certificate. He later completed a Master of Fine Arts at Bezalel in Jerusalem in 2000.

Reisner works in a studio in Jaffa and has taught sculpture at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Ort Evin High School and the Kalisher School of Art, where he headed the sculpture department. His public works stand in Haifa, Ramat Aviv and other places, among them a 2013 work in Haifa marking the rescue of Danish Jews. Early in the 21st century he developed a method using creativity as a tool for healing and change.

In 2020 he made a bronze head of George Floyd and donated it to the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. He is married to Rinat, and they have 2 daughters and a son.