Uri Tzaig

Uri Tzaig is an Israeli artist who works in video, multimedia and installations.

born 1965Video art and installationsThe Universal Square two-ball football filmPermanent work at Yad Vashem

Born: 14 August 1965, Kiryat Gat
Occupation: artist, sculptor, conceptual artist, multimedia artist
Education: School of Visual Theatre

Uri Tzaig was born in 1965 in Kiryat Gat

Uri Tzaig was born on August 14, 1965, in Kiryat Gat. From 1987 to 1990 he studied at the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem.

His work looks at how visual images relate to the building of social and political meaning. He works mostly in digital forms such as video art and installations. In 1995 he took part in the Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale, showing postcard stands with images such as a forest and a ball.

His 1996 work The Universal Square showed a football game in Lod played with 2 balls at once, and was shown at the Israel Museum. In 1998 he made Infinite, in which dancers played with balls by rules he set. In 2005 he created a permanent work for the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem, showing texts written during and after the Holocaust.

His work has also been shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and at MASS MoCA in Massachusetts. In 2008 he was named head of the textile design department at Shenkar College. He lives in Israel.