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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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A group exhibition of mixed media featuring the works of 14 contemporary artists is open at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica through December 31, 2016.
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Zadok Ben-David, a London-based artist, chose a direct title for his latest body of work: “All the people that I saw but never met."
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Zadok Ben-David (b.1949) is an Israeli artist working in London. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design from 1971 to 1973. He continued his studies at University of Reading and the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and he graduated in advanced sculpture from St. Martin’s School of Art and taught at the same institution from 1977-1982.
Ben-David has represented Israel in the Venice Biennale and his largest solo show to date was at the Guangdong Art Museum in Guangzhou, China in spring 2007. Ben-David’ show, “Human Nature” at the Tel Aviv Museum, achieved record-breaking attendance in the thirty-year history of the museum when it ended in February 2010.
He is the recipient of numerous awards. Recent awards include Grande Biennial Prémio at the XIV Biennale Internacional de Arte de Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal 2007 and the Tel Aviv Museum prize for sculpture 2005. In 2008, he was commissioned to make a sculpture for the Beijing Olympics.
In the last couple of years Ben-David has showed in Italy, Derbyshire UK and the Busan Biennale in South Korea. His works feature in the collections of important public and private institutions in Europe, East Asia, United States, Israel and Australia.
Ben-David works and lives in London.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
