Ofer Lellouche

Ofer Lellouche was born in 1947 in Tunis

Ofer Lellouche was born in Tunisia on 19 April 1947. In 1960 his family moved to France. He studied mathematics and physics in Paris from 1963 to 1966.

In 1966 he left his studies and moved to Kibbutz Yehiam in Israel. In 1968, while serving in the army, he fell ill with hepatitis and began to paint during his recovery.

From 1969 he studied painting with Yehezkiel Streichman at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv and French literature at Tel Aviv University. In 1971 he returned to Paris, where he studied with the sculptor César and completed a degree in literature. In 1976 he came back to Israel and opened a studio in Jaffa.

His work in the late 1970s focused on self-portraits and video, including mirror works in 1979. In the 1980s he added landscapes, and in the early 1990s he made more than 600 etchings. Since the late 1990s he has worked mainly in sculpture and etching.

He lives in Tel Aviv-Yafo and works in studios in Holon and Paris. In 2023 the Albertina Museum in Vienna held a retrospective of his work. He is married for the second time and has 4 children.