Gil Marco Shani

Gil Marco Shani was born in 1968 in Tel Aviv

Gil Marco Shani was born in 1968 in Tel Aviv to Aaron and Leah Shani, and he grew up in the city. He finished Tichon Hadash high school in Tel Aviv. His sister is the designer Sarit Shani Hay.

He served in the IDF film unit. He earned a bachelor's degree in art from Bezalel in Jerusalem in 1994 and studied art at the Slade School in London. He later studied shoe design at the Afpic school in Paris.

His paintings use a flat line on a plain background, while his installations build detailed spaces such as motel rooms, a forest, a stairway and a bus depot. He showed Friendship at the Dvir Gallery in 1999 and built Safari at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2001. His installation Buses was shown at the Israel Museum in 2018.

His works are held by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum. He is a senior lecturer in the Art Department at Bezalel and lives in Tel Aviv. He co-parents his son Lev with Renan Mosinson.