Tal Slutzker

Tal Slutzker is an Israeli poet and painter born in Ra'anana in 1986.

born 1986Painting and poetryLeading the artists' group "Hem"Tel Aviv Museum of Art copying project

Occupation: painter

Tal Slutzker was born in 1986 in Ra'anana

Tal Slutzker was born in Ra'anana in 1986. His father Nahum was a composer, violinist, violin teacher and conductor. His mother Paula was an athlete and sports coach.

As a young man he painted and played the violin, and studied drawing and painting with Zakhar Sherman in the Russian academic tradition. He left the Alei school in Herzliya to study at the Jerusalem Studio School. He later studied at Beit Berl's art college in Kalmaniya, with Antonio López García, and from 2018 at Tel Aviv University.

His work includes mainly painting, sculpture and literary writing, and deals with themes such as philosophy, family, mythology, psychiatry and Judaism. He worked for about 10 years on a project with the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, copying and reworking its paintings. He led the artists' group "Hem" and wrote an artistic ideology for it.

The documentary film "The Shadow Painter" reviewed his views on madness. He published poetry in the journal "Akhshav" and exhibited in solo and group shows in Israel and abroad.

Milestones in Tal Slutzker's life

2000
Held his first solo exhibitions, including one in Ra'anana.
2003
Visited Antonio López García, who later became his teacher.
2004
Received an America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship, held until 2006.
2011
Showed the solo exhibition "Dry Season" at Bernard Gallery in Tel Aviv.
2014
Took part in "Delft Blue White" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
2015
Showed the solo exhibition "Hem" at Bernard Gallery.
2017
Exhibited "Akhshav" at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.
2018
Began studies at Tel Aviv University.