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Yigal Ozeri

Yigal Ozeri is an Israeli painter based in New York City, known for large photorealist oil portraits of young women in nature.

born 1958Photorealist portraits of womenThe Territory painting seriesCo-founding Mana Contemporary

Occupation: painter

Yigal Ozeri was born in 1958 in Tel Aviv

Yigal Ozeri was born in Tel Aviv in 1958. He lives and works in New York City. His son, Adam Ozeri, is a professional soccer player.

In 1997 he worked with the poet Ronny Someck on a book of 5 etchings by Ozeri and 5 poems by Someck. It was produced by the Cabri Print Workshop at Kibbutz Cabri in the Western Galilee.

Ozeri began as an abstract painter and turned to realism in early 2000. He names the Pre-Raphaelite painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais as influences, and Velázquez's Las Meninas pushed him toward exact representation. He photographs his subjects, projects the image onto canvas, traces the outlines, and then paints the forms in small color shapes.

He has held solo shows in cities such as Barcelona, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Munich and Toronto. He took part in the traveling show 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting. In 2014 he co-founded Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, where he has a studio.