Nir Hod

Nir Hod was born in 1970 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is currently based in New York.

Hod earned his B.F.A from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and also received artistic training at New York's Cooper Union School of Art. Through sculpture, film, and canvas mediums, Hod freely traverses within and around ideas of beauty, contrast, sexual-ity, decadence, and lost innocence. At the center of his work, Hod tells a story about raw contrast that can exist in people. He questions indulgence as sin and offers, instead, curiosity. His work suggests to us that life and reality are easier to bear when we consider alternate possibili-ties, when we consider things that are larger than life. In 2005, Hod held a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), and has since exhibited at the Jewish Museum (New York), Sara Hildén Art Museum (Finland) , Kasmin Gallery (New York), and Kohn Gallery (Los Angeles), among many others.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 'Flowers of Memory', KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan

'Mountains and Flowers', Patricia Low Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland

2025 'Dorian's Gardens', Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2024 'Expo Chicago', Navy Pier, Chicago, USA

'I Don't Want To Forget You' Gavlak Gallery Palm Beach, Florida, USA

2023 '100 Years Is Not Enough', Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2022 Echo of Memories', KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan

Exile', GAVLAK, Florida, USA

2020 'The Life We Left Behind', Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2018 'The Life We Left Behind', GAVLAK, Florida, USA

'The Life We Left Behind', MAKASIINI CONTEMPORARY, Turku,

Finland

2015 'Life and Death of a Star', Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2014 'Once Everything Was Much Better Even the Future', Paul Kasmin

Gallery, New York, USA

2012 'Mother', Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

2011 'Genius', Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

2008 'Nova 7', Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2007 'Faded Heartache', Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany

2006 'You Are Not Alone', Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2005 'Forever', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

'Luna a Las Vegas', Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2001 'Destiny's Days', Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2000 'Heroes' Tears', The Borowsky Gallery at the Gershman Y,

Philadelphia, USA

'Controversial Innocence', Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

'Nir Hod', Liebman Magnan Gallery, New York, USA

1999

'Forever', Lime Light Club, New York, USA

1998 Forever', Liebman Magnan Gallery, New York, USA

1997 'DOHRIN: The Last Painting', The Museum of Israeli Art, Tel Aviv,

Israel

1995 'Forever', Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 'Faktura / Tektonika' Curated by Robert Spring Sean Kelly, New York, USA

'G*d. Reflections between Heaven and Earth'

Jüdisches Museum Wien, Wien, Austria

2024 1 Don't Want to Forget' Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2021 'All Tomorrow Parties', Domicile, Los Angeles, U

2020

'Still still Life', Sara Hilden Art Museum, Curated Soikkonen, Tampere, Finland

'2020 Vision', Curators: David Kratz and Stephan

Southampton Arts Center, New York, USA

'Autumn Collection', MAKASIINI CONTEMPORA

'Imperfect Clocks', Chart Gallery, New York, USA

2019 Fixed Contained', curated by Tomokazu Matsuy KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan

First Person Singular Masculinities in Israeli Art Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel

'New Acquisitions, "Scenes From The Collection The jewish Museum, New York, USA

'Inaugural exhibition', GAVLAK, Los Angeles, US

2018 'The Bunker', 2018 - 2019 session curated by Ma

Florida, USA

'Shop It', Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

'Dancing Goddesses', Dio Horia gallery, Mykono

'PAINTING', Sarah Gavlak Gallery, Florida, USA

'Points of light In A Nocturnal World', 7 Herkimel

Picture, New York, USA

2017 'THE BUNKER', West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

'Grisaille', Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA

'Flaming June VIl', GAVLAK, Los Angeles, USA

COLLECTIONS

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Israel

UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION, Japan