David Nipo
Bio
Education and Teaching
1980 – Studied sculpture at the Zionist youth farm Jerusalem.
1990 – Summer semester, international school of art, Monte Castello De Vibio, Italy.
1997-1999 – Studied painting at the JSS under Israel Hershberg.
1999-2013 – Teaches drawing at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
2005-2013 – Teaches drawing at Sapir Collage.
Since 2005 – Teaches at Hatahana school of painting and drawing which he founded with Artist Aram Gershuni.
Solo Exhibitions
2002 – Golconda Fine Art Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2004 – Golconda Fine Art Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2009 – “Evidence and fabrication” Ashdod Art Museum, Monard Center (catalogue)
2009 – “Roni’s Stand” Golconda Fine Art Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2010 – “Double Landscape” Contemporary by Golconda Tel Aviv
2014 – “I returned and saw under the sun” recipient of the Haim Chiff prize for figurative Realist Art, 2013, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (catalogue)
2016 – “Ever Returning” Contemporary By Golconda, Tel Aviv
2022 – Over time, a Roman fresco, seems like a poem by Avigdor Hameiri, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv
2024 – Birds Sang, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions
1999 – “Explosive Drawing” Hamumche Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue) 1999 – “Master Class” (Israel Hershberg’s class) The Artists House Jerusalem and Noga Gallery Tel Aviv.
2000 – “From Post Impressionism to Post Zionizm” UBS Bank, N.Y. (an initiative of Golconda Fine Art).
2003– “Facing the Real” The Artists House, Jerusalem (catalogue)
2004 – “Traces II” – Drawing Biennale, The Artists House, Jerusalem (catalogue)
2005 – Golconda Fine Art Tel Aviv.
2006 – “Presences” The Artists House Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2009 – BP Portrait Award 2009, National Portrait Gallery, London (catalogue)
2011 – Permanent display, Portrait section of the old masters Gallery (Portrait of Ronald Fuhrer) Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2013 – BP Portrait Award 2013, National Portrait Gallery, London (catalogue)
2014 – “Bypassing abstraction” The open University of Israel Ra’anana (catalogue)
2016 – “In Mirror of Artists” Rozentalis House Jaffa Tel Aviv (catalogue) 2019 – “A decade of the Haim Chiff Prize for Figurative Realist Art” Tel Aviv Museum of Art (catalogue)
2019 – “Keeping a distance” Petach Tikva Museum
2021 – “This Is-realism” Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2021 – “All Happy Families” Nahum Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv
2022 – “Anna K.” Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv
2022 – Time Stand Still, Zuzu gallery, IL
2023 – Escape to Reality, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
Awards
2013 – Haim Chiff Award for Figurative Realist Art

David Nipo | Theatre de l' Absurde || Oil on linen mounted on board, 71X71 cm, 2020