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Born July 16, 1979, Iddo Markus is an Israeli artist, curator, and art collector from Israel.

Iddo deals in various art forms including painting, sketching, photographs, sculpting, and other installations. Markus is known for his various miniature installations which present hundreds of paintings showcasing a specific time period. His installations are exhibited worldwide and can be found in many art collections.

About
Iddo Markus was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 1979. That same year, his family moved to Israel and he grew up in Herzliya. In high school, Markus studied photography and served in the IDF Intelligence as an editor and photographer. Today, Iddo lives and creates in the city of Haifa.

Over the years of his life, his work has moved from photography and collages he made as a child, to his distinct sketching and painting installations he creates today.

Markus’ works flow between local and global subject matter and he varies in styles, mediums, and installation techniques. The backbone of his works features compact subjects and movement that Markus experiences in his daily life and creative process. In his contemporary works, Markus investigates the tension between the singular iconic image and infinite digital vastness while referring to Digi-Tech theories. He contemplates the juxtaposition between intimacy, personality, and the anonymity of social media photos, the figurative and abstract, and the different artistic styles and creation dynamics. Markus works with inspiration collected from both the street and the web. By doing so, he emphasizes the blurred line between privacy and public information in the overwhelming digital age.

Markus has showcased in both solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He is also the co-founder of "Haneviim art space"an independant art school in Haifa, Israel. He is represented by Forte Gallery, Tel Aviv.

Education
2003 - 2004 SVA-School of Visual Arts-New York, USA-Courses

2005 - 2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, “Hamidrasha School of Arts”,     Beit Berl, Israel. (graduated with excellence)

2011-2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Haifa university

Solo Exhibitions
2009 - Drawings and Paintings 2007-2009, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2011 - “Bite size” Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2011 - “Different hand” Kibbutz Lohamei-Hagetaot Gallery, Israel

2012 - “For want of a nail…”, Threshold Gallery, New Delhi, India

2012 - "Draft", Kiryat Tivon Art Gallery, Kiryan Tivon, Israel

2014 - “Urtica”,  Yair art gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2016 - “Glitch”,  Rothchild fine art gallery Tel-Aviv, Israel

2017 - “Gossip”, Rothchild fine art gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2018 - “The Others”,  Yair art gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2018 - “Family matter” Zemack gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2019 - "the Parade", Forte Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019           Keeping at distance:on intimacy in contemporary painting, Petach-tikva museum of art

2018            Red - The Gottesman Etching Center - Kibbutz Cabri

2017            Painting salon, The cube, Jerusalem, Israel

2016           The Return Of Paper - The 6th Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem, Israel

2016           Decade ,Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2014           Summer exhibition, Zemack gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2013           Metropolis, Woofer Ten & C&G Artpartment gallery, Hong Kong

2012           Dybbuk Feinberg projects Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2012           Magic hours Ashdod art museum, Israel

2012           Yonas al masari-dead or alive, BAAD gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2011            Formally Speaking, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

2011            the specialists Hanina gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010           Haifa -Plovdiv, Plovdiv- Haifa Pygmalion House -  Bulgaria

2010           Talking Heads, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010           wall works, Janco-Dada Museum Ein Hod, Israel

2009           A little more PEKA Gallery, Technion Institute, Haifa, Israel

2009           A little The Wing Gallery, Haifa, Israel

2009           Heat Wave, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2008           New Purchases- ST-ART, Tiroche House, Tel Aviv, Israel

2008           Coming Soon, Contemporary Art Gallery, Tivon. Israel

Art Fairs
2018         FRESH-PAINT, Tel Aviv, Israel

2015         ART MIAMI, USA

2014        ART TORONTO, Canada

2014       SF ART FAIR San Francisco, USA

2013       FRESH-PAINT, Tel Aviv, Israel

2012       INDIA ART FAIR, New-Delhi, India

Collections
Forte Gallery

Yair Art Gallery

Zemack Gallery

Rothchild Fine art gallery

St-Art collection

Z-A Art collection

Oded Shatil collection

Bank Leumi collection

Raw-Art Gallery collection

Private collections

Curatoral work by Iddo Markus
2016            The culture palace, Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel

2015            Concrete fantezy, Zemack gallery, Tel aviv, Israel

2014            The moon is a hole is the sky, Haagaf gallery, Haifa, Israel

2012            Paris square, Haifa-Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel

2011             Rite of spring, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010           Sorrow, the Wing Gallery, Haifa Israel

From the Press

 * Globes - newspaper article, "the Parade" exhibition (he)
 * Haaretz - newspaper article (he)
 * Calcalist - newspaper interview (he)
 * the Marker - newspaper interview (he)
 * Vivian Sachs Blog
 * Midnighteast Blog
 * YELETKOTEVET Blog
 * Ateliershemi Blog
 * Hook and line Magazine
 * the Hindu Magazine
 * Heraldtribune Magazine