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Hanoch Piven (b. August 21, 1964 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures. Piven was born in Uruguay and raised in Israel. He came to the United States in 1987 and graduated from the School of Visual Arts, in New York, in 1992. Piven returned to Isreal in 1995, where he began writing and illustrating for the daily Haaretz.

His illustrated compositions are assembled from common objects and scraps of materials, including items which might be associated to the subject (for example, using bologna and liquor bottles to create Boris Yeltsin for Haaretz in 2000 or brains, magnifying glasses and electrical wire to create Stephen Hawkins for Die Weltwochecakes in 2006.

His caricatures appear in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly,  The Times of London, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications.

In 2003, Piven began conducting international workshops in such cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Toronto and others. The workshops follow the principles of Piven's own collage technique and encourage young people and to experiment with common day-today objects and pieces of the world around them to create their own works of art.

Awards

 * Society of Illustrators Gold Medal (1994)


 * Society of Publication Designers Silver Medal


 * Art Directors Club Merit Award for Cover Illustration (1996)


 * Folio Eddie & Ozzie awards Gold, Best Use of Illustration (2007)


 * Time Magazine, One of Ten in Best Children's Books 0f 2004 (for What Presidents Are Made Of