b. 1952, Israel

Lives and works in Tel Aviv

Jacob Mishori has been an exhibiting artist for 35 years. His career has evolved in an endless maze of different techniques, great knowledge and conflicting emotions. Mishori is an autodidact and a long-term teacher; having previously taught at both the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and the Midrasha college in Kfar Saba, he now heads the department for Fine Art at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv. Mishori's painting and drawing practice is self-reflective in the extreme. His work feeds on consistent, critical observations of his surroundings, and his tireless perusals of printed manifestations of common visual ideals (art books, fashion magazines, perfume ads, catalogues, etc) investigates, mocks, rejects, accepts and obscures accepted visual language and cliches. His work almost compulsively references art history 'staples' such as abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, Cubism, Pop Art, Anti-Classicism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, etc. All these re-workings of familiar terminologies highlights a restless discomfort in the act of viewing.