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Nir Hod
Nir Hod
Born	1970; Tel Aviv
Education	Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,; Cooper Union School of Art
Known for	Painting, sculpture, video art
Website	nirhod.com

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Nir Hod (born 1970) is an Israeli visual artist, based in New York. He works in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and video art.

Life and work

Nir Hod was born in 1970, in Tel Aviv, Israel.^{[citation needed]} Hod studied at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and New York City's Cooper Union School of Art.^[1]

He began his career in video, works in sculpture but is known for his high realism paintings.^[2] His work investigates old notions of hyper-seriousness and personal authenticity.^[3] Hod's realistic takes on rakish narcissism examine androgyny, identity, sexual confusion, and excess.^[4] As Richard Vine wrote in the catalogue for Hod’s survey exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, “From the beginning of his career, Nir Hod has opposed the ideology that labels sumptuousness an esthetic sin. His work openly substitutes the pleasure principle and a fluid multiplicity of selves for the old notions of high seriousness and personal authenticity.” In his recent series of “Genius” paintings and sculptures,^[5] Hod depicted aristocratic young men and women whose cherubic cheeks contrast with their scornful expressions and smoldering cigarettes.

For his solo exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Mother,^[3] Hod created a series of paintings that reference the iconic photograph, taken by the Nazi photographer Franz Konrad, of Nazi soldiers clearing out the Warsaw Ghetto during the Second World War. Although most of the scholarship and speculation about this photograph has centered on the identity of the young boy with his arms raised, Hod’s paintings focus on the woman in profile closest to the photographer. By removing this faceless and often overlooked woman from the historical context of the original photograph, he asks the viewer to consider who she was and to imagine the life that she could have had. Hod depicts her posing or dancing against a lush, cinematically lit background, a beautiful handbag draped across her arm. Alluring and fashionable, the woman in these paintings has completely escaped from the horrible reality of the original photograph.

Solo exhibitions

2020: "The Life We Left Behind", Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles^[6]
2018: "The Life We Left Behind", Gavlak Gallery, Palm Bech
2018: "The Life We Left Behind", Makasiini Contemporary Gallery, Finland
2015: "Life and Death of a Star", Michael Fuchs Gallery, Berlin , Germany
2014: “Once Every Thing Was Much Better Even the Future”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2012: “Mother,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York^[7]
2011: “Genius,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York^[5]
2008: “Nova 7,” Alon Segev Gallery, Israel^[8]
2007: “Faded Heartache,” Davide Gallo Gallery, Berlin^[9]
2006: “You Are Not Alone,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York^[10]
2005: “Forever,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
- “Luna a Las Vegas,” Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001: “Destiny's Days,” Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000: “Heroes’ Tears,” The Borowsky Gallery at the Gershman Y, Philadelphia
- “Controversial Innocence,” Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
- “Nir Hod,” Liebman Magnan Gallery, New York
1999: “Forever,” Lime Light Club, New York
1998: “Forever,” Liebman Magnan Gallery, New York; Wolfson Galleries at Miami-Dade College, Miami
- “Bleeding Hearts,” The Opera House, Tel Aviv
1997: “DOHRIN: The Last Painting,” The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
- “A Souvenir from November,” Mary Fauzi Gallery, Tel Aviv
1996: “The Brush of the Heart,” Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

Press

References

^ "Artist Profiles: Nir Hod". Artis.
^ Becker, Noah (March 2012). "Mother: Interview with Nir Hod". Whitehot Magazine.
^ ^a ^b "Nir Hod, "Mother"". Time Out New York. March 15, 2012.
^ Schlank, Joey (June 20, 2011). "Artist Profile: Nir Hod". Gotham.
^ ^a ^b ""Genius" at Paul Kasmin Gallery".
^ "Nir Hod's New Show at Kohn Gallery Realizes a New Painterly Depth for the Artist". Galerie Magazine. 16 July 2020.
^ ""Mother" at Paul Kasmin Gallery".
^ ""Nova 7" at Alon Segev". ArtNews.
^ ""Faded Heartache" at Davide Gallo". Whitehot Magazine.
^ "Nir Hod, "You Are Not Alone" at Jack Shainman Gallery".

External links

Nir Hod's Website
Examples of Nir Hod's Work (Sculptures, Paintings, Photographs)
Catalogue essay by Tami Katz-Freiman, from Hod's solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Nir Hod Interview (Video)
Nir Hod the Man (Review)
Contemporary Art and the Holocaust, Nir Hod's "Mother"

[1] "Artist Profiles: Nir Hod". Artis.

[2] Becker, Noah (March 2012). "Mother: Interview with Nir Hod". Whitehot Magazine.

[tony-3] "Nir Hod, "Mother"". Time Out New York. March 15, 2012.

[4] Schlank, Joey (June 20, 2011). "Artist Profile: Nir Hod". Gotham.

[genius-5] ""Genius" at Paul Kasmin Gallery".

[Kohn_Gallery_Exhibition-6] "Nir Hod's New Show at Kohn Gallery Realizes a New Painterly Depth for the Artist". Galerie Magazine. 16 July 2020.

[7] ""Mother" at Paul Kasmin Gallery".

[8] ""Nova 7" at Alon Segev". ArtNews.

[9] ""Faded Heartache" at Davide Gallo". Whitehot Magazine.

[10] "Nir Hod, "You Are Not Alone" at Jack Shainman Gallery".

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+| birth_place        = [[Tel Aviv]]
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-'''Nir Hod''' (born 1970) is an [[Israeli Jews|Israeli]] born, New York based artist.
+'''Nir Hod''' (born 1970) is an Israeli visual artist, based in New York. He works in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and video art.
-==Life and Work==
+==Life and work==
+Nir Hod was born in 1970, in Tel Aviv, Israel.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} Hod studied at Jerusalem's [[Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design]], and New York City's [[Cooper Union School of Art]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Artist Profiles: Nir Hod|url=http://www.artiscontemporary.org/artist_detail.php?id=26|publisher=Artis}}</ref>
-Nir Hod began his career in video, works in sculpture but is known for his high realism paintings.<ref>{{cite news|last=Becker|first=Noah|title=Mother: Interview with Nir Hod|url=http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/mother-interview-with-nir-hod/2504|newspaper=Whitehot Magazine|date=March 2012}}</ref> Hod studied at Jerusalem's [[Bezalel Academy]] and New York's [[Cooper Union School of Art]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Artist Profiles: Nir Hod|url=http://www.artiscontemporary.org/artist_detail.php?id=26|publisher=Artis}}</ref> His work investigates old notions of hyper-seriousness and personal authenticity.<ref name="tony">{{cite news|title=Nir Hod, "Mother"|url=http://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/nir-hod-mother|newspaper=Time Out New York|date=March 15, 2012}}</ref> Hod's realistic takes on rakish [[narcissism]] examine [[androgyny]], identity, sexual confusion, and excess.<ref>{{cite news|last=Schlank|first=Joey|title=Artist Profile: Nir Hod|url=http://gotham-magazine.com/channels/home-page/insights/artist-profile-nir-hod|newspaper=Gotham|date=June 20, 2011}}</ref> As Richard Vine wrote in the catalogue for Hod’s survey exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, “From the beginning of his career, Nir Hod has opposed the ideology that labels sumptuousness an esthetic sin. His work openly substitutes the pleasure principle and a fluid multiplicity of selves for the old notions of high seriousness and personal authenticity.” In his recent series of “Genius” paintings and sculptures,<ref name="genius">{{cite web|title="Genius" at Paul Kasmin Gallery|url=http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2011-05-19_nir-hod}}</ref> Hod depicted aristocratic young men and women whose cherubic cheeks contrast with their scornful expressions and smoldering cigarettes.
+He began his career in video, works in sculpture but is known for his high realism paintings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Becker |first=Noah |date=March 2012 |title=Mother: Interview with Nir Hod |url=http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/mother-interview-with-nir-hod/2504 |newspaper=Whitehot Magazine}}</ref> His work investigates old notions of hyper-seriousness and personal authenticity.<ref name="tony">{{cite news|title=Nir Hod, "Mother"|url=http://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/nir-hod-mother|newspaper=Time Out New York|date=March 15, 2012}}</ref> Hod's realistic takes on rakish [[narcissism]] examine [[androgyny]], identity, sexual confusion, and excess.<ref>{{cite news|last=Schlank|first=Joey|title=Artist Profile: Nir Hod|url=http://gotham-magazine.com/channels/home-page/insights/artist-profile-nir-hod|newspaper=Gotham|date=June 20, 2011}}</ref> As Richard Vine wrote in the catalogue for Hod’s survey exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, “From the beginning of his career, Nir Hod has opposed the ideology that labels sumptuousness an esthetic sin. His work openly substitutes the pleasure principle and a fluid multiplicity of selves for the old notions of high seriousness and personal authenticity.” In his recent series of “Genius” paintings and sculptures,<ref name="genius">{{cite web|title="Genius" at Paul Kasmin Gallery|url=http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2011-05-19_nir-hod}}</ref> Hod depicted aristocratic young men and women whose cherubic cheeks contrast with their scornful expressions and smoldering cigarettes.
-For his solo exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Mother,<ref name="tony" /> Hod created a series of paintings that reference the iconic photograph, taken by the Nazi photographer [[Franz Konrad (SS officer)|Franz Konrad]], of Nazi soldiers clearing out the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] during the Second World War. Although most of the scholarship and speculation about this photograph has centered on the identity of the young boy with his arms raised, Hod’s paintings focus on the woman in profile closest to the photographer. By removing this faceless and often overlooked woman from the historical context of the original photograph, he asks the viewer to consider who she was and to imagine the life that she could have had. Hod depicts her posing or dancing against a lush, cinematically lit background, a beautiful handbag draped across her arm.  Alluring and fashionable, the woman in these paintings has completely escaped from the horrible reality of the original photograph.
+For his solo exhibition at [[Paul Kasmin Gallery]], Mother,<ref name="tony" /> Hod created a series of paintings that reference the iconic photograph, taken by the Nazi photographer [[Franz Konrad (SS officer)|Franz Konrad]], of Nazi soldiers clearing out the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] during the Second World War. Although most of the scholarship and speculation about this photograph has centered on the identity of the young boy with his arms raised, Hod’s paintings focus on the woman in profile closest to the photographer. By removing this faceless and often overlooked woman from the historical context of the original photograph, he asks the viewer to consider who she was and to imagine the life that she could have had. Hod depicts her posing or dancing against a lush, cinematically lit background, a beautiful handbag draped across her arm.  Alluring and fashionable, the woman in these paintings has completely escaped from the horrible reality of the original photograph.
-==Selected Solo Exhibitions==
-*2012: “Mother,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York<ref>{{cite web|title="Mother" at Paul Kasmin Gallery|url=http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2012-03-28_nir-hod}}</ref>
+==Solo exhibitions==
-*2011: “Genius,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York<ref name="genius" />
+*2020: "The Life We Left Behind", Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles<ref name="Kohn Gallery Exhibition">{{cite web |url=https://galeriemagazine.com/nir-hods-new-show-kohn-gallery-realizes-new-painterly-depth-artist/ |website=Galerie Magazine|title=Nir Hod's New Show at Kohn Gallery Realizes a New Painterly Depth for the Artist |date=16 July 2020 }}</ref>
-*2008: “Nova 7,” Alon Segev Gallery, Israel<ref>{{cite web|title="Nova 7" at Alon Segev|url=http://artnews.org/alonsegev/?exi=10538|publisher=''ArtNews''}}</ref>
+*2018: "The Life We Left Behind", Gavlak Gallery, Palm Bech
-*2007: “Faded Heartache,” Davide Gallo Gallery, Berlin<ref>{{cite web|title="Faded Heartache" at Davide Gallo|url=http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/gallery-davide-gallo-berlin-/597|publisher=''Whitehot Magazine''}}</ref>
+*2018: "The Life We Left Behind", Makasiini Contemporary Gallery, Finland
-*2006: “You Are Not Alone,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York<ref>{{cite web|title=Nir Hod, "You Are Not Alone" at Jack Shainman Gallery|url=http://www.jackshainman.com/exhibition67.html}}</ref>
+*2015: "Life and Death of a Star", Michael Fuchs Gallery, Berlin , Germany
+*2014: “Once Every Thing Was Much Better Even the Future”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
+*2012: “Mother,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York<ref>{{cite web|title="Mother" at Paul Kasmin Gallery|url=http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2012-03-28_nir-hod}}</ref>
+*2011: “Genius,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York<ref name="genius" />
+*2008: “Nova 7,” Alon Segev Gallery, Israel<ref>{{cite web|title="Nova 7" at Alon Segev|url=http://artnews.org/alonsegev/?exi=10538|publisher=ArtNews}}</ref>
+*2007: “Faded Heartache,” Davide Gallo Gallery, Berlin<ref>{{cite web|title="Faded Heartache" at Davide Gallo|url=http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/gallery-davide-gallo-berlin-/597|publisher=Whitehot Magazine}}</ref>
+*2006: “You Are Not Alone,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York<ref>{{cite web|title=Nir Hod, "You Are Not Alone" at Jack Shainman Gallery|url=http://www.jackshainman.com/exhibition67.html}}</ref>
 *2005: “Forever,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
 **“Luna a Las Vegas,” Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
 *2001: “Destiny's Days,” Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
 *2000: “Heroes’ Tears,” The Borowsky Gallery at the Gershman Y, Philadelphia
 **“Controversial Innocence,” Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
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 *1996: “The Brush of the Heart,” Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
-==Selected Press==
+==Press==
 * [http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/nir-hod-paul-kasmin-shop/#_ Shiffman, Allyson, "Nir Hod and the Importance of Narcissism," ''Interview,'' 7/13.]
 * [http://www.artnews.com/2013/01/10/contemporary-holocaust-art/ Cembalest, Robin, "Painting Auschwitz Blue," ''ArtNews,'' 1/10/13.]
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 * [http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/94904/holocaust-imagery-as-art Cembalest, Robin, "Holocaust Imagery As Art," ''Tablet Magazine,'' 3/26/12.]
 * [http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/nir-hod-genius-paul-kasmin/ Slenske, Michael, "The Kids Are All Right? The Paintings of Nir Hod," ''Art in America,'' 5/16/11.]
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
 ==External links==
 * [http://www.nirhod.com/ Nir Hod's Website]
 * [http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/artists/nir-hod Examples of Nir Hod's Work (Sculptures, Paintings, Photographs)]
-* [http://www.katzfreiman.com/hod-ta.htm Catalogue essay by Tami Katz-Freiman, from Hod's solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art]
+* [http://www.katzfreiman.com/hod-ta.htm Catalogue essay] by [[Tami Katz-Freiman]], from Hod's solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
 * [http://standardculture.com/posts/6410-Susan-Kirschbaum-Gets-Her-Friends-Naked-Nir-Hod-and-Yvonne-Force Nir Hod Interview (Video)]
 * [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annie-fabricant/artist-nir-hod-the-man-be_b_1375890.html  Nir Hod the Man (Review)]
 * [http://www.artnews.com/2013/01/10/contemporary-holocaust-art/  Contemporary Art and the Holocaust, Nir Hod's "Mother"]
+{{Authority control}}
-==References==
-{{Reflist}}
-{{Persondata
-| NAME              = Hod, Nir
-| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
-| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Israeli artist
-| DATE OF BIRTH     = 1970
-| PLACE OF BIRTH    = [[Tel Aviv]]
-| DATE OF DEATH     =
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-}}
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-[[Category:Realist artists]]
 [[Category:1970 births]]
 [[Category:Living people]]
-[[Category:Israeli painters]]
+[[Category:Artists from New York City]]
+[[Category:Artists from Tel Aviv]]
+[[Category:Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni]]
 [[Category:Cooper Union alumni]]
-[[Category:Cooper Union]]
+[[Category:Israeli emigrants to the United States]]
 [[Category:Israeli portrait painters]]
+[[Category:Israeli sculptors]]
+[[Category:Israeli video artists]]
+[[Category:Realist artists]]

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