Hadar Gad

Hadar Gad was born in 1960 in Ein Harod

Hadar Gad was born in 1960 in Kibbutz Ein Harod Meuhad. She grew up in Beersheba and in Kibbutz Karmia. Her grandparents, Arieh Gad and Esther Budko, are buried in Ein Harod, and Esther was the sister of artist Joseph Budko.

She studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris from 1981 to 1983. From 1983 to 1987 she studied at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv, where she focused on printmaking and etching. She received Ministry of Education scholarships in 1984, 1985 and 1986.

After her studies she worked as an assistant in the etching workshop of the Artists House in Tel Aviv. She has taught painting and drawing, including at the Meyerhoff Art Center of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. She is the art curator of the National Library journal Hamussach and heads the art department at the Givat Haviva art center.

Her interior paintings show ordinary objects such as dishes in a sink and used tea bags. Starting in 2007 she painted the cemeteries of the Jezreel Valley, shown in the 2009 show "Block, Section, Row" at the Mishkan Museum of Art. In 2021 she took part in "Afterlives" at the Jewish Museum in New York, about art looted by the Nazis.