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About the artist

Ofer Shemesh is an Israeli graphic designer. For over 30 years his art has reflected his view of the Jewish and Israeli soul as it searches for personal identity and independence. This search is fueled by Jewish history and continues to prosper and develop, driven by art, culture and international influences, as well as the constant threat under which the modern State of Israel exists.

One of the most significant influences on his work is rooted in the emotional experiences that Ofer faced as an IDF combat soldier during the Lebanon War in 1983. As he says, “I tried to stay humane in a place that could never be humane.”
 
Posters are Ofer’s preferred instrument for popular art. With them, he is able to convey his powerful combining tears with hope, death with inspiration, modernity with history, and Israel with the world.
 
Several of his pieces have won international awards and have been exhibited in museums and private art galleries around the world, including Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art and the ZOA House in Tel Aviv. His work has also been displayed in places such as Australia and Nepal.  
 
Ofer’s design won the 2013 International Poster Design competition for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day that was sponsored by the United Nations and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. The winning poster was displayed at the UN and in government offices in 40 countries