Gil Marco Shani is a painter and installation artist. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, 1968. BA (1994) in Art from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Art Studies (1994) Slade School, London. Faculty member and senior lecturer in the Department of Art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Shani has won many awards: the Gottesdiener Foundation Award for a Young Israeli Artist (2008) and the Sandberg Award for Israeli Art for 2018. His paintings are in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum and others. In 1994, he participated in the exhibition "Transit" as part of "Art Focus" and in 1997, he participated in "Sederni Noy" within the "Saf" exhibition at the Israel Museum, curated by Sarit Shapira in 1999. In 2001 Shani completed "Safari" installation at the "Helena" exhibition at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The ambitious installation "Buses" at the Israel Museum 2018, is one of the highlights of Shani's achievements in his consistent body of work.

Ester Schneider earned her B.Des and her MFA at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.

Schneider works mainly in painting and installation. Her work is inspired by a multiplicity of cultural arenas, including Jewish mysticism, Persian miniatures, and Russian modernism. 

Schneider's work has been shown extensively in local art institutions and in various international venues, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art,  Eretz Israel Museum, Museum on the Seam, The Jerusalem Biennial, The Israeli Drawing Biennial, The Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, The Tel Aviv Artists' Studios, Basis Gallery in Herzliya, ZUMU – Mobile Museum, Hamidrasha Gallery, Inga Gallery, Gallery at The Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem, Triumph Gallery in Moscow, and gallery of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles.

Schneider is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture Award in Visual Arts (2019), the Ilana Elovic-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in the Arts (2016), the Givon Prize (2012), and the Young Artist Prize by the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport (2011), as well as excellence awards from the Advanced Studies Programs at Bezalel and Hamidrasha - Beit Berl College.

Her works are included in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum and Ha'aretz, and in private collections in Israel and abroad.

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