Hanoch Piven

Hanoch Piven is an Israeli artist and illustrator known for caricatures made from collages of everyday objects.

born 1963Collage caricatures of public figuresChildren's booksHis column in HaaretzCreative workshops with everyday objects

Born: 21 August 1963, Montevideo
Occupation: artist, illustrator
Education: School of Visual Arts

Hanoch Piven was born in 1963 in Montevideo

Hanoch Piven was born on August 21, 1963, in Montevideo, Uruguay. He moved to Israel with his family at age 11 and grew up in Ramat Gan, where he finished high school at Blich.

He was not accepted to the Bezalel Academy of Art and moved to New York. He studied graphic design and illustration at the School of Visual Arts and graduated in 1992. During his studies he developed his portrait style, and his work appeared in Time, Newsweek and Rolling Stone.

Piven builds his caricatures from paint and common objects linked to the subject. He returned to Israel in 1996 and wrote and illustrated a regular column in Haaretz. Since 2001 he has divided his time between Jaffa and Barcelona.

He has written and illustrated children's books and created TV programs for Hop! and Israel Educational TV. He developed the Faces iMake apps and runs creative workshops using everyday objects. In 2015 he was a Seeds of Peace fellow and wrote an arts education curriculum.