Iddo Markus was born in Boston, US in 1979.
Lives and works in Haifa, Israel.
His works are found in private and public collections.
Markus is a multidisciplinary artist whose works consistently inviting us to explore the relationship between figuration and abstraction.
Between directness and enigma, between traditional and contemporary approaches towards painting and source material.
His multi-layered oil paintings installations, most of them are small-scale to miniatures size, echo the artist’s expressive interpretation of the moment, and the frenzied Mediterranean environment he lives in as a seismic factor in his intense work practice.
A notion that brought Markus in recent years to create a body of work that is composed of many small fragments that make up dense installations.
Markus’s works delve deeper beyond the mere representation of an object to question the visual language, These works create a dialogue between the canonical and the ephemeral, between art history, Photography and the endless flow of imagery that defines contemporary digital culture with autobiographical hints.
Education
2011-2012 Etching, Engraving & printmaking workshop, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Haifa university
2005-2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, graduated with excellence, Hamidrasha School of Arts, Beit Berl, Israel.
2003-2004 SVA-School of Visual Arts-independent courses, New York, USA.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 “The Parade” Special Collaboration with Jaguar & Land-rover, Herzeliya, Israel
2020 “Variations on jpg_1679”, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2020 “Man manners”, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot Gallery
2019 “The Parade”, Forte gallery, Tel-Aviv
2018 “The Others”, Yair Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2017 “Gossip”, Rothchild Fine Art Gallery Tel-Aviv
2016 “Glitch”, Rothchild Fine Art Gallery Tel-Aviv
2014 “Urtica”, Yair art gallery, Tel-Aviv
2012 “For want of a nail”, Threshold Gallery, New Delhi, India
2011 “Different hand”, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot Gallery, Israel
2011 “Bite size”, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Drawings and Paintings , Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 UNMASKED, Laurie M. Tisch Gallery Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
2021 70th Anniversary of Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2020 ESTHER'S FRIENDS AT @PARALLEL 2020 Vienna Austria
2019 Keeping at distance: on intimacy in contemporary painting, Petach Tikva museum of art
2018 Red - The Gottesman Etching Center - Kibbutz Cabri
2017 Painting salon, The cube, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 The Return Of Paper - The 6th Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 Decade,Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Summer exhibition, Zemack gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2013 Metropolis, Woofer Ten & C&G gallery, Hong Kong
2012 Dybbuk Feinberg projects Gallery,Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 Magic hours Ashdod art museum, Israel
2012 Yonas al masari, BAAD gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 Formally Speaking, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2011 The specialists, Hanina gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Haifa -Plovdiv, Pygmalion House - Bulgaria
2010 Talking Heads, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Wall works, Janco-Dada Museum Ein Hod , Israel
2009 A little more, PEKA Gallery, Technion Institute, Haifa, Israel
2009 A little The Wing Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2009 Heat Wave, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 New Purchases - ST-ART, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Coming Soon, Tivon Contemporary Art Gallery, Israel
Art Fairs
2020 PARALLEL, Vienna art fair
2018 FRESH-PAINT, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 ART MIAMI, USA
2014 ART TORONTO, Canada
2014 SF ART FAIR San Francisco, USA
2013 FRESH-PAINT, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 INDIA ART FAIR, New Delhi, India
Collections
Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art
Yair Art Gallery
Zemack Gallery
Rothchild Fine Art Gallery
St-Art Collection
Z-A Art Collection
Oded Shatil Art Collection
Bank Leumi Art Collection
Raw Art Gallery
Private collections
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